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$200 PC in the Works
When eMachines brought the $400 PC to market in 1998, some people thought prices couldn’t go any lower. But now the founding CEO of that company is heading up a new venture and wants to bring that price down further—to $200 per seat and below. NComputing plans to bring PC desktops to the masses through…
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Lenovo Moves to Correct Vista Boot Time Issue
According to a recent entry on Lenovo’s “Inside the Box” blog, the reports earlier this month about a Vista/Thinkpad conflict are true: Lenovo admitted that some Vista-based computers manufactured either by IBM or by Lenovo may take an additional 10 to 20 seconds longer to boot than a similar Windows XP-based configurations. This problem, according…
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The Buzz
LAWSUIT Intel countersues Transmeta THREE MONTHS AFTER TRANSmeta sued Intel claiming patent infringements, the chip giant fired back, alleging Transmeta is infringing on seven Intel patents. In the suit filed Jan. 9 in U.S. District Court in Delaware, Intel is charging that Transmeta’s Crusoe, Efficeon and Efficeon 2 processors violate Intel patents regarding the Transmeta…
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Guardium Database Compliance Tool Tracks All Changes
Database security specialist Guardium released its latest set of compliance automation tools Jan. 23, aiming to help businesses record and monitor every alteration workers make to their enterprise information vaults. While most companies have developed database change control guidelines since the dawn of the compliance era and the arrival of mandates such as the U.S.…
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Power to the Channel
There’s a battle of wills going on within most customers these days that is creating an unusual opportunity for solution providers to play the mediator. Opportunities to wear the white hat don’t come along all that often, but even the warring camps inside the customer base would generally agree that this argument is unproductive for…
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The Open Source Initiative Still Lives
There was a time when the Open Source Initiative was one of the hotbeds of open-source activity. After the retirement of its co-founder and leader, Eric Raymond, in January 2005, the OSI lost much of its fire. That may be changing soon, though. An investigation by Linux-Watch has found that there is still heat in…
