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GE Access Launches New Online Tools for Partners
GE Access, a value-added distributor of complex computing systems including security, storage and networking, today announced a new partner program focused on automating online orders and allowing solution providers to better collaborate and manage their business with GE Access. Called Partner Connect, the program offers a set of online tools that are part of a…
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Biometrics, Trusted Computing Key to Securing Laptops, Handhelds
Now that the U.S. government has announced it is using fingerprint readers to authenticate foreign visitors, it’s time to revisit the use of this technology for securing laptop and handheld computers. One advantage to fingerprint readers, or biometrics in general, is that there are no passwords to forget or cards to lose. On the other…
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Oracle’s Linux Boss Gears Up for Grid
The latest Linux salvo to come from Oracle Corp. will arrive at LinuxWorld in New York on Wednesday. That’s when Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracle’s Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within the Platform Technologies Division, takes the keynote stage to detail the challenges companies will face as they standardize on Linux…
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PeopleSoft Continues Money-Back Guarantee
PeopleSoft intends to continue its money-back guarantee program through March 31 or until Oracle stops trying to take it over, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Read the full story at Silicon.com.
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Microsoft Expands .Net With Xen
In the professional world, most programming can be summed up in two words: data manipulation. And these days, much of the data being manipulated comes prepackaged in XML documents or SQL tables. So why do languages like C# force programmers to use obtuse APIs to access those data structures? It would be much more convenient…
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Lindows CEO Says Microsoft Targets European Resellers
Microsoft and Lindows.com Inc. are continuing to battle in the courts of Europe for the hearts and minds of resellers in what Lindows.com CEO and founder Michael Robertson, calls a “lawsuit rampage” begun by Microsoft last month when it went after Lindows on trademark grounds in Finland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. “I still don’t…
