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NewsGator Gains Partners to Extend RSS Reach
News feed aggregator NewsGator Technologies has struck new partnerships to expand its enterprise sales and tie its online service with other desktop newsreaders. NewsGator on Wednesday announced a co-marketing agreement with Six Apart Ltd., one of the leading makers of Weblog software, and integration of subscription information from its Web-based aggregation service with FeedDemon, a…
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Authorize.Net Battles Extortion Attempts
Corey Mandell knew things weren’t good when he got the ransom letter. Mandell had experienced such things before, and he knew that Authorize.Net, a Bellevue, Wash., credit card processing company, would be in for a tough time. What he didn’t realize until later is that it would be much worse than he had anticipated. The…
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New Bagle Variant Raises Alarms
A new variant of the Bagle worm is showing more prevalence than usual, according to anti-virus companies. The new version is known by a variety of names: McAfee Inc. calls it Bagle.az, Trend Micro Inc. has dubbed it Bagle.AM and Symantec Corp. refers to it as Beagle.AR. All three companies have elevated the threat level…
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Open-Source, Proprietary Systems Can Work Together
Paul Gustafson, director of Computer Sciences Corp.‘s Leading Edge Forum, which authored the “Open Source: Open for Business” report, says open source’s influences stretches from the desktop to high-performance computing centers. “People equate Linux with open source, and it sort of stops there,” Gustafson says. “But the open-source community has gone beyond Linux—and it’s taking…
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New Strategies for Personal Mass Storage
Storage for your digital stuff has never been cheaper. We recently received an ad in our inbox from a well-known electronics retailer. The startling item in the ad was a 1 gigabyte compact flash card for under $90. Recently, Jim Louderback, in his When I’m 64 feature, found a Seagate 160GB ATA drive for roughly…
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Microsoft Targets Second RFID Pilot at SMBs
At the EPCglobal show on Tuesday, Microsoft announced an RFID customer pilot with snack-food maker Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, a product supplier to Wal-Mart, Target and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company says the pilot is part of its plan to target its RFID offerings at SMBs (small to midsized businesses). Large turnkey players…
