Recent Articles
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Microsoft Eases Rules on Selling Media Center
At least one reseller has been quick to act now that Microsoft has relaxed the rules about how its Windows XP Media Center can be sold. Michael Chang, president of Houston, Texas-based Directron.com, said his company has worked with Microsoft to make Media Center available to end-users in single-unit quantities. “It was never distributed that…
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Google Delves into the Desktop
Google Inc. upped the ante Thursday in the growing desktop search battle, introducing an application that combines Web results with those from a user’s hard drive. In its beta release, Google Desktop Search supports only the most common file formats and applications. But Google plans in future releases to open access to application developers through…
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Intel Cancels 4-GHz Pentium 4
Intel has decided not to bring to market a 4-GHz single-core Pentium 4 after all, following a July decision to push the chip out to the first quarter of 2005. As Intel executives explained previously, the decision is based on the company’s desire to accelerate the ramp of its various microprocessor technologies, including Vanderpool, its…
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Red Hat Launches New Embedded Partnership Plan
Red Hat Inc. announced on Wednesday a new channel program, the Red Hat Runtime Partner Program, that will enable embedded system vendors to replace proprietary embedded operating systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to the Linux distributor, the Red Hat Runtime Partner Program is part of its Red Hat Partner Community, which is designed…
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Oracle Warns of Critical Exploits
Critical Oracle Corp. technology vulnerabilities have been publicly exploited, the company advised in a recent security update that urged users to apply the patches contained in its Security Alert 68. “Oracle is aware of public exploits (as indicated in the latest version of the alert) for several of the vulnerabilities, and more exploits may be…
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D-Link Dangles Diamond Status to Disgruntled 3Com Resellers
D-Link Systems Inc. this week unveiled two programs to entice qualifying competitors’ VARs, while warming the hearts of its own rank and file as well. During the first week of November, any new D-Link reseller partner that’s currently enrolled as a Platinum, Gold, or Silver level partner in any competing vendor VAR program will get…
