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Amazon.com Lesson Is Don’t Mess with Customer in Age of Twitter, Facebook
If you type #AmazonFAIL into the search window of Twitter today, you are likely to find a wealth of posts and articles about Amazon.com’s recent embarrassing mistake. Somehow, the company that some credit with inventing consumer electronic commerce by selling books online has overnight managed to earn a reputation as a virtual book burner. Amazon.com…
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Microsoft Plans Simultaneous Next-Gen Exchange, ForeFront Launch
Microsoft promises a “rolling thunder” launch later this year of the various components of the next generation of its ForeFront security suite for client, network and cloud-based network protection. ForeFront Code-named Stirling, the next generation of the ForeFront suite has been delayed as the software packages for anti-malware and application-layer security undergo further testing and…
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ViewSonic VT2230 Melds 1080p HDTV and PC Display
Those looking for crystal clear images are turning to 1080p, a resolution that is perfect for HDTV, Blu-ray content and even PCs. On the PC front, 1080p brings 1,920-by-1,080 resolution, which offers plenty of screen real estate and still keeps images sharp, icons viewable and windows usable. On company embracing 1080p is ViewSonic, as evidenced…
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Report: IT Needs to Partner with Business Counterparts
In a Unisys survey of 188 North American CIOs and other IT decision-makers, 76 percent of respondents said they believed their organizations should not simply provide technology support for internal business organizations, but should actively partner with clients to create and drive initiatives that push the enterprise’s strategic business objectives. IT executives view driving technology…
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Twitter Worm Stopped, Malware Threat Persists
“All clear” is the word coming out of Twitter as it completes the mop-up work from an Easter weekend worm outbreak that infected tens of thousands of user profiles. According to published reports, Twitter was attacked at least four times in the past week with a worm designed to infect profiles with an application that…
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EMC Unveils New Storage Architecture
EMC has introduced a high-end line of Symmetrix storage products based on a building block design that can start small and scale up to support the largest virtual data center infrastructures, aiming to do for storage what VMware has done for enterprise servers. EMC’s new Symmetrix V-Max and V-Max SE storage arrays are based on…