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Do You Want Linux With That?
I hear the Linguini a la Larry is an, ahem, acquired taste,” guffawed the Gossipy Gastronome upon hearing that Oracle boss Larry Ellison might be planning to open two restaurants in Malibu, Calif. “Perhaps Larry’s grown tired of gobbling up only tech companies and is looking to diversify his portfolio with fine dining,” mused the…
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Our Printer Got Hacked?!?!
It’s one of those "not really a big deal yet but could blow up soon" problems: Printers, especially higher-end multifunction business printers, have become so intelligent and complicated that they have serious security risks. They are, in fact, really desktop computers, even workstations in disguise. They run a wide range of operating systems customized and…
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W3C Publishes New Web Standards for XML
The World Wide Web Consortium released eight new standards for its XML line on Jan. 23. The new Web standards are designed to help businesses request information from a database, transform and access XML data and do bond databases with the Web W3C’s new Web standards were developed by the XSL Working Group and XML…
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Shape of SAP’s Midmarket Suite Raises Questions
By this point it’s no secret that SAP is investing heavily in the midmarket. The company is planning to spend between $370 million and $493 million (from 300 million euros to 400 million euros) over the next eight quarters in building out a new suite of enterprise application software that is both agile and appealing…
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Siemens Unveils OpenScape for Lotus
Siemens Communications, a division of Siemens AG, announced that the company is extending its unified communications platform, OpenScape, to IBM’s Lotus Sametime. Currently OpenScape is designed to work with Microsoft products only. The new application, which features click-to-contact, click-to-conference, advanced presence, and instant messaging, is designed to work closely with Siemens SIP based telephony products,…
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RSA Survey Reports Low Level of Trust in Online Banking Security
RSA Security announced Jan. 25 the findings of its fourth annual Financial Institution Consumer Online Fraud Survey, which showed that online customers are not very confident when it comes to their online banking security. The survey, which was conducted in December 2006, asked 1,678 adults from eight countries about their opinions regarding different online fraud…
