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nPhase and Avnet Applied Computing Solutions Tackle M2M
Avnet Applied Computing Solutions, a specialized integrator of single-purpose computing solutions, and nPhase, a machine-to-machine (M2M) technology company, will collaborate on a new wireless M2M solution. The joint solution will combine both companies’ software engineering, solution design, system integration, life-cycle management and monitoring services into a single wireless offering. The companies announced the new solution…
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Acxiom, TransUnion Introduce Fraud Management Platform
Government and industry sources say fraud losses in the financial services, telecommunications and insurance industries is a multi-billion dollar problem. Identity theft alone reached $1.5 billion in 2002 and is expected to grow to $8.6 billion by 2006, according to a Federal Trade Commission study. Longtime partners TransUnion, a Chicago-based solutions provider specializing in business…
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Decision Nears on Contentious Domain Name Service
The overseer of the Internet’s domain naming system is closer to approving a controversial service for back-ordering Web addresses. The subject of past lawsuits and congressional hearings, the wait listing service, or WLS, is expected to be the most contentious issue during next week’s meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in…
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Yukon to Ship with Features Securely Off
In an effort to make it more secure, Microsoft Corp.’s “Yukon” version of its SQL Server database will ship with certain features turned off, according to Microsoft Director of Product Management for SQL Server Tom Rizzo, in Redmond, Wash. Rizzo said that, while it’s too early to say exactly which features will be turned off,…
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VeriSign Teams with Microsoft on Authentication
SAN FRANCISCO—VeriSign Inc. introduced on Wednesday a technology partnership with Microsoft Corp. that combines its strong authentication services with Windows Server 2003. VeriSign Chairman and CEO Stratton Sclavos plans to demonstrate the technology later in the day during a keynote presentation at the RSA Conference 2004 being held here. By working with Microsoft, VeriSign said…
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IBM Revs eServers
IBM is ramping up the processor speed and memory capacity of its high-end eServer p690 systems by offering 1.9GHz Power4+ processors in the eight- to 32-way servers. The upgrade comes a week after the Armonk, N.Y., company announced that a 32-way p690 set benchmark records for transaction processing, and that a German company, Juelich Research…
