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Channel Stocks Can’t Shake Winter Chill
Spring may be here, but channel stocks remain in a deep freeze. For the week ended March 19, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index fell 1.46 percent to 1114.27. Our index dropped more sharply than the Dow (-0.5 percent) and the S&P 500 (0.9 percent) but held up better than the Nasdaq (-2.2 percent)…
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Ziff Davis Channel Zone Daily News Log
Netsmart Signs $550,000 California Contracts with Sycamores of PasadenaGREAT RIVER, NY — Netsmart Technologies Inc. (www.netsmartech.com), a supplier of software for health and human services providers through its Creative Socio-Medics Corp. subsidiary, announced $550,000 in contracts with The Sycamores of Pasadena. The contracts include software licenses, professional services, and first-year maintenance agreements to install Creative’s…
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ICANN to Review 10 Top-Level Domain Name Proposals
The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday announced it has received proposals for 10 new sponsored top-level domains (sTLDs). The new categories include support for mobility, regions and adult-entertainment. The 10 new domains include: .asia (serving the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific communities), .cat (promoting the Catalan linguistic and cultural community), .jobs…
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Microsoft Digs in for Legal Fight
Despite a last-ditch settlement attempt by its CEO, Microsoft Corp. once again finds itself facing protracted litigation and possibly stiff sanctions—this time in Europe. Rivals hailed the development as a victory for software interoperability and competition. CEO Steve Ballmer dropped plans to speak at Microsoft’s Management Summit in Las Vegas last week to fly suddenly…
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Novell Updates GroupWise for Linux, Zenworks and Partner Program
HANNOVER, GERMANY—Just one day after announcing the 9.1 version of SUSE Linux at the CeBIT 2004 show here, Novell Inc. on Friday rolled out a host of new announcements that included a new partner program, the first release of its GroupWise collaboration platform to run entirely on Linux and a new patch management offering. The…
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Security Holes Uncovered in Apache, OpenSSL
Security researchers on Friday uncovered a vulnerability in the open-source Apache Web server software that could easily enable a denial of services attack. The discovery follows on the heels of three holes found in the popular OpenSSL security software Wednesday. The Apache problem is one of several reported in Version 2.0.48, and lets an attacker…
