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Stock Index: Week ended Nov. 21, Channel Stocks Pause Before Holidays
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Inc. was the only bright spot in a rather dim week for channel stocks. Shares in the Dallas, Texas-based IT outsourcing specialist rose 5.72 percent for the week ended Nov. 24, even as our overall Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index slipped a modest 2.05 percent, closing at 1022.87. ACS won…
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House Passes Bill to Limit Spam
The Associated Press reports the House passed a bill Saturday that would impose the first-ever federal protection against unwanted commercial e-mails. The measure would outlaw certain techniques used by many of the Internet’s most prolific spammers and, in some circumstances, include penalties of up to five years in prison. But, if adopted, the bill would…
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64-Bit Demand Leads to New AMD Fab
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., fresh off of its announcement earlier this week that it had entered an alliance with Sun Microsystems Inc., said this morning that it had broken ground on a new 300-mm manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany. Fab 36, which will begin volume production in 2006 and will employ about 1,000 people, is…
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HP, Cap Gemini Partner on ILM
To help enterprises understand and implement information life cycle management technologies, Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its partnership with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. Customers of both companies will benefit, as HP can learn from Cap Gemini’s business process and vertical market expertise, and Cap Gemini will get 100 of its storage architects trained on…
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CA Partners with Microsoft on Free Security Solution
Las Vegas—Computer Associates took a giant step toward the retail channel Tuesday. In a joint announcement with Microsoft at the COMDEX show here, CA said it would make one-year subscriptions to CA’s eTrust EZ Armor antivirus and firewall desktop security suite available to qualified Windows home users at no cost. The announcement, which extends CA’s…
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Microsoft Security Education Campaign Underway
Microsoft has committed to training and educating more than 500,000 people in the coming year about security. This week, company officials reached out to some of them with a security Webcast. But there’s more to come — a lot more. Microsoft has christened the first week of December as its TechNet Security Webcast Week. Tune…
