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Vista Chattiness Is in the Eye (Ear?) of the Beholder
Among early adopters of Microsoft’s freshly minted Windows Vista operating system, the strongest reactions so far seem not to revolve around the system’s fancy new looks or its handy search facilities, but rather around Vista’s knack for asking permission to carry out operations that require administrative privileges. Summing up the annoyance felt by many Vista…
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Some Companies Hesitate to Outsource
Hiring someone outside the company to store, manage and protect all a company’s data is a gutsy thing to do, for any storage executive or administrator. And this decision usually is not made in a vacuum. Virtually all companies who outsource their storage apparatus must have either the CEO, president, or a senior vice president…
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Team Scores with Data Handoff
When Hurricane Katrina bulldozed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005, its devastating repercussions were felt in many more places than Mississippi, Louisiana and the neighborhoods all across the country where thousands of evacuees had to relocate. Enterprise executives around the nation and the world winced at the destruction the storm brought to New Orleans…
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Lenovo Goes ‘Small’ with Latest Desktop
Lenovo Group believes that less can be more. The Raleigh, N.C., PC maker is scheduled to roll out its latest small form factor desktop on Jan. 29—the ThinkCentre A55—which company officials said is 64 percent smaller than its traditional desktop offering. The new PC will also offer a range of new features that Lenovo hopes…
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Linux Foundation Director Discusses Goals
Why did the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs decide to merge? Both groups have long shared the same ultimate goal—to accelerate the adoption of Linux—and have worked together in the past. Discussions about how the two groups could work together or join forces have been taking place for some time. Due to…
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Apple Swats AirPort Bug, Credits MoKB Researcher
Apple on Jan. 25 shipped an Airport security update to fix a kernel panic issue that could allow attackers to cause system crashes. The Cupertino, Calif., company’s fix comes almost two months after the issue was first flagged in the MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) project in November 2006. Apple credited the anonymous researcher known…
