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SAP, HP Team on ERP for SMBs
Small and midsize businesses that are looking for an ERP solution but aren’t able to handle such things as cost and implementation have a new solution from SAP America Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to consider. SAP, of Newtown Square, Pa., and HP teamed last week to announce a hosted enterprise resource planning bundled service tailored…
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The iPod-Powered PC
Would your customers believe that they could use their iPods to turn any PCs into working clones of their main PC? Well, believe it or not, that’s exactly what PowerHouse Technologies Group Inc. is doing with its Migo software. Premier partners are encouraged to look not just to SMBs but to enterprise clients as well.…
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Intel’s CPU Share Slips Slightly
Intel Corp.’s share of the CPU market fell slightly during the third quarter as smaller rivals nipped at the leading chip maker’s heels. Intel’s market share slipped to 81.9 percent, versus 82.5 percent a quarter before, according to data released Monday by Mercury Research Corp., of Cave Creek, Ariz. Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw…
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New IE Flaw Spoofs URLs
A series of HTML-based exploits allow a malicious HTML programmer to direct a user to a different Web site than the one indicated in the user’s browser status line. Two separate but similar issues affect Internet Explorer. The first, reported by Benjamin Franz of Germany on the Bugtraq mailing list, involves an improper mixture of…
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Fast-Moving Bagle Worms Open PCs’ Backdoors
Two new versions of the venerable Bagle worm are on the loose, infecting PCs and opening backdoors as they go. The pair are virtually indistinguishable from one another and also are quite similar to most of the other Bagle variants. The main area of concern for enterprises is the fact that both Bagle.BC and Bagle.BD…
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New Mexico City Hopes for Wi-Fi Access by Christmas
“We’re a very tech-savvy community,” said James Palenick, city administrator for Rio Rancho, N.M., explaining why his city of 63,000 was working to provide Wi-Fi access to its citizens. “We’ve always wanted this to provide economic growth,” he said. “It sends a very important message to the country and the world.” And of course, it…
