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Wi-LAN, Quintum Team on Wireless VOIP
Wi-LAN Inc., the Calgary, Alberta-based vendor of fixed wireless broadband services, has tapped media gateway maker Quintum Technologies Inc. as its integration partner for its voice-over-IP services. Under the agreement, Quintum will provide its Tenor media gateway, which will work with any of several fixed wireless radios provided by Wi-LAN. The Quintum products will be…
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Resellers Not Embracing Firefox Despite Its Popularity
Several recent announcements have highlighted the growing popularity of the open-source, Mozilla-based, multiplatform browser Firefox 1.0. Yet spot calls to resellers found none of them peddling the increasingly popular and free Firefox browser to Windows desktop customers. The first announcement by WebSideStory Inc., a Web analytics firm that uses Web beacons to track the aggregate…
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Merger Mania and the Reseller
When my editors asked me last week to write my column about the sale of the IBM PC Division to Lenovo, I delayed for a couple of days. There were two reasons. The first is that I didn’t want to provide an instant analysis to something that required more thought. The second was that there…
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New IE Exploit Spoofs Web Sites
Security researchers have uncovered a spoofing flaw in Internet Explorer that could turn out to be the perfect holiday gift for scammers. The bug, which has been confirmed on a fully patched Windows XP system with IE 6.0 and Service Pack 2, could allow a scammer to display a fake Web site with all the…
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‘Critical’ XP SP2 Update Fixes Windows Firewall Bug
Microsoft Corp. has quietly released a “critical” Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to fix a serious flaw in the Windows Firewall utility. “After you set up Microsoft Windows Firewall in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may discover that your computer can be accessed by anyone on the Internet when you use…
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Microsoft Seeks to Lure PeopleSoft Users
Microsoft Corp. didn’t waste any time in trying to win over ERP customers who might be unhappy with Oracle Corp.’s recent purchase of PeopleSoft Inc. On the heels of the announcement of the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, Microsoft attempted to swoop in. On Dec. 15, the head of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for North America, Corporate Vice…
