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Channel Zone Daily News Log — Week of March 22
Friday, March 26 POWAY, CA, and IRVINE, CA, — Computer maker Gateway, Inc.’s (www.gateway.com) board approved a new senior management team, following completion of its acquisition of eMachines Inc. Gateway founder Ted Waitt will serve as chairman and Wayne Inouye will serve as president and chief executive officer. Thirteen senior vice presidents will report to…
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U.S. Lindows Judge Proposes Compromise
The battle between Lindows.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. over the Lindows trademark took an interesting turn today when U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle proposed a deal in which Microsoft can proceed with an appeal of his earlier ruling that a jury must decide whether “windows” had been a generic term before it was…
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AT&T Launches Managed Endpoint Security Offerings
AT&T this week introduced two new services to help enterprise customers thwart attacks. The first service, dubbed AT&T Internet Protect, informs customers about potential threats before they become full-blown attacks. Under the Internet Protect service, AT&T will alert businesses through a secure Web portal to potential threats within minutes of identifying critical malicious activity. The…
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Senator Voices RFID Concerns
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Tuesday called for a national debate on RFID technology and the privacy issues related to its use. In an address at the Georgetown University Law Center, Leahy said that Congress might need to take action if members find significant privacy protection concerns arising from the swift emergence of RFID…
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HP Rolls Out Major SMB Initiatives
When Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina talks, solutions providers listen. More than 1,000 HP partners converged on Los Angeles earlier this week for an update on the company’s go-to-market strategy. Fiorina and other HP executives announced a major small- and midsize-business (SMB) initiative during the show, but the bigger news for partners involved HP channel…
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New Day, New Novell
Before coming to Novell’s annual ring-dang-do of a trade show, BrainShare, here in Salt Lake City, I wondered just how much Linux support I would find at it. I knew Novell’s brass loved Linux, and I knew business Linux supporters loved it, but what would Novell’s old-school partners, developers and resellers think of all of…
