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High-Def DVD Format Wins Studios’ Support
Toshiba said Monday that four major Hollywood studios have signed on to release titles in the HD (high-definition) DVD format, a decision that should have a significant impact on the next-generation DVD Forum battle. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Studios all released commitments to support the HD DVD format, Toshiba…
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Looking (Way) Ahead to Longhorn Server
While 2007 is still a long way off, Microsoft is making headway (at least on slide decks) with Longhorn Server, according to the Redmond software maker’s partners. Before the Windows Server team can dedicate itself exclusively to Longhorn Server, it needs to roll out several other new releases, including Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1;…
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Management Tools Ease Wi-Fi Security Chores
Several wireless LAN vendors are preparing new management software to help ease the process of securing a wireless network. Interlink Networks Inc., Airespace Inc. and Aruba Wireless Networks have each developed advancements to their respective WLAN products that ease network management and security configuration—an issue that for many users has become the primary obstacle to…
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Symantec’s Ghost Possesses PowerQuest DeployCenter Tools
Symantec Corp. has released its much anticipated Symantec Ghost Solution Suite, which combines Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition, the imaging component of the DeployCenter Library and Symantec Client Migration. The IT suite concentrates the tools to roll out Windows and applications, migrate data and user settings, and retire PCs. Resellers are praising the notion of the…
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Microsoft Confirms WINS Flaw
Microsoft Corp. has issued a workaround for a newly discovered security issue in WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) that could lead to malicious code execution. Just days after research outfit Immunity Inc. issued an advisory, Redmond confirmed that the WINS vulnerability could make it possible for an attacker to take control of a WINS server…
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Failed Windows XP Upgrade Downs 60,000 UK Gov’t PCs
Most of the desktop computers in the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP’s 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government’s not entirely impressive IT history. And…
