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Wi-Fi Becomes A Commodity
It’s official – WiFi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the cureent quarter, based on an influx of low-cost WiFi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the WiFi…
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Oracle 10g: Top Goodies and Gotchas
Oracle 10g recently went under eWEEK Labs’ microscope and came out with flying colors, earning an Analyst’s Choice recommendation for its ability to take workload off the shoulders of DBAs. That’s no surprise. True, as Technical Analyst Michael Caton and Technology Editor Peter Coffee write in their wrap-up of the 10g tests, prospective users are…
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Dell Reseller Offers Lindows-Loaded PCs
A Dell VAR on Tuesday began offering OptiPlex desktops for sale in Italy with a Linux operating system from Lindows. Although the announcement was positioned as an official Dell release, a spokesman from Dell Inc.’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, said the program was not offered with Dell’s approval. Questar, one of Dell’s Italian VARs,…
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Resellers Looking Beyond IE
Plenty of people are still seething about Scob, a new virus that uses keystroke logging to steal credit card numbers and other personal information. Beyond its special quirks, though, Scob is being seen as just the latest of many malware epidemics to blast through the holes in Microsoft’s software. Armed with non-Microsoft browsers, alternative operating…
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Kicking Partner Relationship Management Up a Notch
Time was, PRM (partner relationship management) was just a new way to deliver old information: product information, collateral material and the like. Most distributors can tick off the PRM box on a checklist of reseller support mechanisms. But that was then. This is now. The technology has matured since its emergence in the late 1990s.…
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Apple: New iMac in Works
Apple Computer Inc. has confirmed that the iMac is to be replaced in September with an entirely new model. With few of the iMac models still on the shelves of distributors and dealers, the company faces two months with no mainstream consumer computer available. In a statement, Apple confirmed it had stopped taking orders for…
