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Despite Public Data Breaches, Password Security Still Weak
Despite repeated reminders to select strong passwords and not to reuse them across Websites and services, online users continue to be frighteningly lax in their password security, according to a recent analysis of leaked passwords. Security experts recommend taking a multilayered approach to security. Instead of relying on a single point of failure, organizations should…
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Federal CIO Vivek Kundra Leaves Govermnent for Harvard
The fact that Vivek Kundra has decided to leave the federal government to accept a fellowship at Harvard should surprise no one. There are several reasons why it should have been expected, even predicted, despite the fact that Kundra probably didn t realize it himself initially. First, trying to implement a huge but vague mandate…
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IBM Rational Business Partners Unveil New Products, Services for Software Development Market
Looking to escalate and leverage software’s growing importance throughout a wide and diverse range of industries and applications, IBM has seen explosive growth within its embedded computing business partner community. Underscoring the channel’s interest in this market, IBM Innovate 2011, the developer’s annual conference for Rational Software developers, attracted 400 business partners to Orlando, Fla.,…
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How to Manage Your Team for Sales Success
As I was refilling my bookshelves I found the following bullets from Dale Carnegie & Associates, copyright 1967 and updated 1981. All the information is highly pertinent for today’s biggest sales management challenges; my white paper on The Job of Sales Management that is located on my Website is somewhat similar but specific to the…
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WatchGuard Strengthens Email Security Appliances
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, released a software update to its extensible content security family of Web and messaging security appliances. This software release allows businesses to employ data loss prevention features, content and policy controls for accelerating Web traffic and spam and phishing prevention technologies. For more granular data loss prevention…
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Acer’s Aspire Ethos Notebooks Sport Removable Touchpads
Acer America has designed its latest notebook PCs — the Aspire Ethos AS8951G and AS5951G — to deliver a high-definition personal theater experience for a range of activities, including graphic-intensive gaming, video streaming and viewing of high-definition DVDs, photography and videos. This is aided by the notebooks’ detachable touchpad that doubles as a remote control.…