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AT&T Launches Managed Endpoint Security Offerings
AT&T this week introduced two new services to help enterprise customers thwart attacks. The first service, dubbed AT&T Internet Protect, informs customers about potential threats before they become full-blown attacks. Under the Internet Protect service, AT&T will alert businesses through a secure Web portal to potential threats within minutes of identifying critical malicious activity. The…
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Senator Voices RFID Concerns
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Tuesday called for a national debate on RFID technology and the privacy issues related to its use. In an address at the Georgetown University Law Center, Leahy said that Congress might need to take action if members find significant privacy protection concerns arising from the swift emergence of RFID…
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HP Rolls Out Major SMB Initiatives
When Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina talks, solutions providers listen. More than 1,000 HP partners converged on Los Angeles earlier this week for an update on the company’s go-to-market strategy. Fiorina and other HP executives announced a major small- and midsize-business (SMB) initiative during the show, but the bigger news for partners involved HP channel…
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New Day, New Novell
Before coming to Novell’s annual ring-dang-do of a trade show, BrainShare, here in Salt Lake City, I wondered just how much Linux support I would find at it. I knew Novell’s brass loved Linux, and I knew business Linux supporters loved it, but what would Novell’s old-school partners, developers and resellers think of all of…
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Microsoft to Appeal European Sanctions
Microsoft Corp. is appealing the sanctions the European Commission imposed today on Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior, giving the company 90 days to offer a version of the Windows operating system without Media Player and 120 days to disclose greater interface information so rival servers can interoperate with Microsoft products. As pledged at the collapse of…
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HP, Novell Join in Linux Desktop Push
Thanks to an expanded partnership with Novell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. is claiming to be the only major IT vendor to provide Linux systems from the desktop to the datacenter. The two companies, which already sell Linux on servers, announced Wednesday at Novell’s BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City that they would work together to sell…
