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Microsoft Shares Longhorn Networking Details
Microsoft execs have been reticent to talk about changes that Microsoft is making to Windows’ core “Fundamentals” pillar with Longhorn. But on Tuesday, a handful of Microsoft’s top Windows Longhorn networking officials opened up a bit. Led by Jawad Khaki, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s networking and devices technologies division, the Microsoft Windows execs participated…
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Homeland Security Officials Refute RFID Reports
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have hotly denied reports by some other publications that the agency’s upcoming ID cards will use radio-frequency identification. Instead, the DHS will deploy another type of RF technology known as “ISO/IEC 14443,” which is soon to be required for all federal employee ID cards—and which carries a far shorter…
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A Call to Mobilize Biz Apps
NEW ORLEANS—Sybase Inc. CEO, Chairman and President John Chen is calling for more cooperation in the mobile industry to help enterprises extend their critical business applications out to their mobile work forces. In his keynote at the CTIA wireless conference here Tuesday, Chen said the next key step for enterprise mobility is to extend to…
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Microsoft Shares Bits of ‘Indigo,’ ‘Avalon’
Microsoft announced Wednesday that the first Community Technology Preview of its next-generation communications subsystem is now available. Microsoft Corp. released the bits to the upcoming subsystem, known by its code name Indigo, to MDSN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time, said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft’s lead product manager for Web services strategy. Indigo…
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IBM Moves to Align BPM with Web Services Standard
With the ratification of the Web Services Distributed Management standard last week—and of a critical component in that standard called Common Base Events—IBM is working to align and integrate CBE concepts into its business process management capabilities. The goal, said IBM officials, is to provide more insight into issues occurring in business processes as they…
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$300M Shipper Builds Its Own IT System
When a company outgrows its core application package, surprising choices sometimes spring up. After turning into the largest same-day document shipper in North America, Dallas, Texas-based Dynamex Inc. has opted to swap its old shrink-wrapped order processing system from Datatrac for an enterprise IT platform built in-house, according to Andy Argento, the shipper’s vice president…
