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Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org
In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project’s OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft’s…
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Realtors’ Tech Tools Open Doors to Data
For some real estate companies, investing in and implementing the latest tech gadgetry are the icing on a well-rounded, if not very elaborate, cake. But as obvious as some state-of-the-art trappings such as wide-area wireless connectivity, handheld computers and 360-degree virtual online tours may seem, some say such technology is not all it’s cracked up…
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Blackout Highlights Business-Continuity Drivers
An investigative report issued this week by the U.S. and Canadian governments surrounding the worst power failure in U.S. history is shedding light on the importance of business-continuity planning through findings that the electric-system catastrophe could have been prevented. The U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force placed much of the blame for the Aug. 14-15…
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HIPAA Insecurity
If Chris DeVoney hustles, he can stay one step ahead of the hackers he fears are going to steal patient records. But he doesn’t dare rest. He is the computing director at the clinical research center of the University of Washington Medical Center. In the past year, he has patched and installed software firewalls on…
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WLAN Flexibility Expanded
Trapeze Networks Inc. last week introduced a new version of its WLAN switching software that lets IT managers deploy and manage distributed and centralized wireless LANs. Trapeze is one of many startups that launched WLAN management systems last year. Its Mobility System features a central switch called MX (Mobility Exchange) and thin APs (access points)…
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Microsoft to Implement Competency Categorization, Points Accrual System for Partners
Redmond, Wash.— Sticking to the channel roadmap it unveiled last October, Microsoft Corp. is expected to open its Microsoft Competencies and Partner Points components for participation in April, marking a major milestone in its overhauled channel strategy for the next decade. The components are meant to help partners identify their areas of expertise clearly, making…
