Recent Articles
-
Secondary Market Supplier Turns to Channel at Both Ends
Network Liquidators, a supplier of used network hardware, launched a program for VARs to help them bring wares in the front door and out the back. The company finds VARs a useful source of used product procurement and expects their ranks would be an equally efficient route to market, said Joe Serra, Network Liquidators’ executive…
-
Cloudmark Combats Rising Tide of Spam
Cloudmark added Jan. 23 a new feature to its Cloudmark Authority 2.0 security tool to help Internet service providers reduce spam. Cloudmark’s Active Scan is able to block the vast majority of unwanted e-mail by allowing service providers to filter unread messages against up-to-the-minute lists of known attacks. Every minute, Authority 2.0 updates local caches…
-
Mac Tablet Distributor Recruits Dealers
Two weeks after its introduction, the Axiotron ModBook, which Apple reseller Other World Computing called “the One and Only Mac Tablet” computer,” is starting to lure independent Macintosh dealers. “We have had significant reseller interest,” said OWC’s Lawrence R. O’Connor. “We would prefer not to disclose the number of pre-orders, but to say the least—we…
-
Provilla to Fight Leaks with Document ‘Fingerprints’
A software startup is hoping to plant its flag in the rapidly expanding data leakage prevention sector using a technique that marries traditional endpoint security controls with a document-based system that assigns a digital fingerprint to each piece of protected content. Provilla, based in Mountain View, Calif., moved out of quiet mode on Jan. 22…
-
Linspire CEO on Opening Up CNR: Share the Bread
Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony says his company is opening up its CNR (“Click ‘N Run”) software download and management service to other Linux distributions because “Linux really needs an easier way to find and install software, regardless of which flavor of Linux you’re using.” The company said earlier this week that it will extend CNR…
-
Novell’s Online App-Build Service Supports Multiple Linuxes
ISVs have a problem with Linux. They want to be able to write, compile and ship one version of an application. They don’t want to make one for SUSE, another for Red Hat and still another for Ubuntu. Novell has an answer. On Jan. 24, the company released the alpha version of the open-source OpenSUSE…
