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  • SanDisk Adds Enterprise Security to Flash Portfolio

    SanDisk Adds Enterprise Security to Flash Portfolio

    Chris Preimesberger

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    SAN FRANCISCO—SanDisk introduced Feb. 5 a new integrated suite of applications that a company spokesperson claims “transforms off-the-shelf USB flash drives from a security threat to a competitive advantage.” TrustWatch was introduced at the RSA Conference 2007, which opened Feb. 5 at Moscone Center and continues through the week. TrustWatch is built around a secure… Read more

  • IT Pros Prepare to Spring Forward

    IT Pros Prepare to Spring Forward

    Deborah Perelman

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    Daylight-saving time kicks off two weeks early this year, leaving technology professionals scrambling to avoid it wreaking havoc on IT systems. The 2005 act amended the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which simplified the official pattern of daylight-saving time, changing the start and end dates to extend it by four weeks. Starting in 2007, clocks… Read more

  • HP ProCurve Sends Message to C-Level Execs

    HP ProCurve Sends Message to C-Level Execs

    Paula Musich

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    Hewlett Packard’s ProCurve Networking unit on Jan. 30 attempted to move out of the networking trenches and into the IT executive ranks when it outlined its Adaptive Networking vision. The launch is intended to describe for IT executives and chief financial officers the business benefits of ProCurve Networking’s strategic direction in helping to ensure the… Read more

  • Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office

    Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft is trying to incentivize its largest indirect hardware partners and system builders to preinstall Office 2007 on their systems, before these are sold to resellers, by offering them a referral payment when end users activate the license on those machines. Qualified Microsoft partners were invited to participate in the Referral Payment Pilot Program for… Read more

  • Demo Products Aim to Empower Individuals

    Demo Products Aim to Empower Individuals

    Anne Chen

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    PALM DESERT, Calif.—The Demo conference kicked off today with products ranging from inkless printing technology to a thin-client computing solution that delivers a rich desktop experience. The theme: the empowered individual. “The theme of empowerment is about the power of individuals to select and use products, the power to move markets, the power of new… Read more

  • Linux Hackers Offer to Create Device Drivers for Free

    Linux Hackers Offer to Create Device Drivers for Free

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Ask Linux users what they find most annoying about Linux, and many will complain about device drivers. While the vast majority of PC components and peripherals work with Linux, some don’t work at all, and others are marginal. A leading Linux kernel developer has come up with a solution. In a recent blog and e-mail… Read more