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Conficker Followed up by Scareware-Powered Spam
Preparation and persistence helped many to dodge the Conficker threat, and while many may have dodged that bullet, the war against malware is far from over. The recently released Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), which covers the final 6 months of 2008, indicates that rogue security software threats are on the rise. Those pieces of…
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Netbook Performance Lagging? Intel Intros New Atom CPUs for Mobile
Does that netbook need better performance? Intel today announced two new versions of its Atom processors that have powered for smartphones, portable computers, netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs). The Z550 and Z515 are both designed to deliver better performance than what’s currently available on the market. Intel says these new processors will serve the…
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Businesses May Skip Vista Upgrade Entirely
Good early reviews of Windows 7 beta is prompting some enterprises to cancel version migration plans from XP and skip over Vista, according to a new report by ChangeWave. In the survey of 2,000 corporate IT buyers, 53 percent said they were planning to skip Vista altogether and wait for Windows 7’s general availability. Only…
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FalconStor Speeds Enterprise Backups
FalconStor is taking its virtual tape library and deduplication solutions to the next level, adding features that can help channel partners speed up customers’ archiving and backup processes by as much as 8 times. Fadi Albatal, director of marketing at FalconStor, says while VTL and dedupe solved many of the backend performance, reliability and scalability…
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External Disk Storage Sales Plunge 7%
The poor economy is causing the external disk storage systems market to drop, with IDC expecting a 6.7 percent year-over-year decrease in 2009. The good news is that the market is expected to increase 1.5 percent year-over-year from 2009 to 2010. End-user worldwide sales are expected to decrease 3.1 percent in 2009 over 2008, and…
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Google: Publishers’ Friend or Foe?
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as The New…