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Wi-LAN Sues Cisco over Data-Transfer Patents
Canadian broadband wireless technology provider Wi-LAN is suing industry giant Cisco Systems for patent infringement, Wi-LAN officials announced Thursday. And if the lawsuit goes well, the company may keep on suing. All of the patents in question relate to OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), the modulation technique that enables high-speed data transfers for both the…
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Some NT Customers Are Willing to Make Big Upgrades
If you’ve got to migrate, make it worth the trouble. That’s the attitude some Windows NT 4.0 users have in light of Microsoft Corp.’s plan to cease support in the coming months. “Customers are saying, ‘While we are going through this, let’s integrate all these other things we need to do: SAN, NAS, e-mail archiving,…
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HP’s OpenView Select Identity Automates Tasks
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday will roll out its OpenView Select Identity provisioning product, a new offering based on technology the company acquired earlier this year. The solution is one of the first pieces of HP’s new security strategy, a plan that comprises offerings in trustworthy systems, proactive security management and identity management. Like many of its…
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How to Negotiate With Microsoft
How you can negotiate better software licensing deals with Microsoft — even if your company recently signed a new contract with the Redmond software kingpin? The question is especially pertinent now, with many users’ three-year-old Software Assurance (SA) licensing deals set to expire on June 30. But negotiating a licensing deal with Microsoft is a…
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Industry Group Calls Microsoft’s Custom NT 4.0 Support ‘Victory’
While the planned obsolescence of Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT 4.0 comes as no surprise, still, some customers have been slow to hear the warning bell, especially in the financial services industry. So a non-profit group comes to the rescue, letting commerce—and the oh-so important security patches—continue unabated. But at a cost. BITS, a nonprofit consortium…
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NT 4 Is Ending, So Now What?
The end of NT’s days is finally upon us. For a brief moment, it looked like Microsoft might relent, as it did with Windows 98, and continue to deliver free support for NT. But alas, it was not to be. On June 30, if you’re still supporting NT Workstation users, you’re on your own. Microsoft…
