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Dealers Begin Tipping Prescott Prices, AMD Cuts
Dealers have begun to release pricing for the Intel’s new Pentium 4 and “Prescott” chips expected next week, and have also tipped AMD’s expected price cuts later in February. As expected, the prices for a Prescott and a Pentium 4 running at the same clock speed are virtually identical, with a gap of just a…
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Gateway-eMachines Merger: Beware the Retail Juggernaut?
Carly Fiorina got it right: For some time, the HP CEO has been saying the marketing will continue to consolidate, and today’s news that Gateway plans to buy eMachines proves the wisdom of her words. Interestingly, this merger was prompted more by Gateway’s desire to expand its retail presence than any move to push online…
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Microsoft to Change IE Behavior to Block Spoofing Attacks
Microsoft Corp. has announced in a support document that it will be releasing a software update to Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer to disable the use of certain syntax in HTTP URLs. The syntax, designed to allow a username and password to be passed to a password-protected page, has a history of abuse. The company…
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Another IE Spoofing Hole Found
Security researchers are warning of another spoofing vulnerability in Internet Explorer, this time one that allows an attacker to mask the true file extension of malicious downloads. The file-extension spoof means that an attacker could lull a user into opening a malicious file from a Web site by making the file appear as a legitimate…
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Does Your Business Model Make Sense?
While I toiled away in my twenties for a large, prestigious consulting firm, one of my friends had a carpentry and renovation business. Ironically, our businesses had a lot of parallels (e.g., both were essentially project-based professional services companies). But to my fascination, his followed a very different and much more profitable model. My company’s…
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Top 10 Marketing Books You Should Be Reading
Just when you thought you had wrapped up your list of New Year’s resolutions, I have one more for you and the rest of your management team: A strategic marketing reading list for 2004. The good news is that most of these books are quick reads, and more importantly, all of them are invaluable for…
