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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…
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When a Reseller’s Proposal Doesn’t Meet Specs
I was poring over the minutiae in an RFP (request for proposal) when I found the bad news. The computer that was proposed for a disputed contract did not, in fact, meet the requirements. Because of the way the contract was written, the reseller would have had to provide an upgrade at its own expense…
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Software As a Service Is Poised for Rebound
You don’t hear many people talking about ASPs, or application service providers, except in the past tense. Plenty of those ASPs bloomed and wilted with the dot-com boom and bust, but what those vendors did—provide applications on demand—is alive and well and poised for a rebound. This time, though, you might want to call it…
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Check Point Refines InterSpect
As vendors pour into the internal security market, Check Point Software Technologies Inc., among the first entrants in this space, continues to refine its line of InterSpect appliances with a host of new features. The company this week will release Version 2.0 of the appliances’ software, which now includes features that enable the boxes to…
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Great Technology Is Little Help If Employees Don’t Know
As the holiday season approaches, we have good news and bad news on the major retail multichannel front. The good news is that some retailers are getting a lot better at handling the technology. The bad news is that their employees often don’t know about it, making the advantages moot. Retail executives are optimistically projecting…
