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Mobile Robots Take on New Chores
Wireless links and cheap processing power make mobile robots increasingly practical for industry and public-safety applications. Originally inspired by the fictional R2-D2 “droid” of the “Star Wars” movies, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner now equips U.S. troops in Iraq with battlefield-grade PackBot units that can be thrown through a window to explore a potentially booby-trapped building.…
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Sabre Rebuilds on the Fly
It was about 10 years ago when executives at Sabre Holdings Corp. decided they needed to start thinking about moving their online travel business off their existing proprietary mainframes and onto a new platform. Internet-based travel booking was gaining rapid acceptance among a growing group of computer-literate consumers and among travel agents and airlines, and…
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SarbOx Reaches Far and Wide
Three companies working to meet a rapidly approaching Sarbanes-Oxley deadline show the breadth of systems the act affects and the lengths to which IT managers must go to maintain compliance over time. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, has corporations subjecting themselves to a…
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A Progress Report on Windows’ ASN.1 Vulnerability
On February 10, Microsoft disclosed a dangerous vulnerability in all modern versions of Windows, along with a patch to fix it. Nine days may not seem like a long time, but every day that goes by without a real exploit is great news. Click here for Microsoft’s advisory and links to the patches) At the…
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How to Ensure Your Business Partners Have Adequate Security
Information sharing between organizations and their business partners is an increasingly critical business requirement. Companies that provide these capabilities enjoy a competitive advantage. The process of meeting these requirements and the constant struggle to lower costs while improving business efficiency have created complex network and information security issues that companies must address. Organizations often provide…
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Microsoft Partners Assess Fallout from Code Leak
With security experts busily downloading, peering at, and analyzing leaked source code, the industry is still buzzing with controversy over last week’s Windows security breach. But what about the impact of the leak on Microsoft’s relationships with channel partners? Will Microsoft still be able to trust its partners, and vice versa? Will application security be…
