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Epson’s (Almost) Perfection
The Epson Perfection 4870 Photo scanner ($450 street) is possibly the best desktop flatbed scanner we’ve tested, rivaling even professional scanners costing thousands. It’s the first Epson with firmware and hardware that incorporates the impressive Digital ICE technology developed by Applied Science Fiction (now part of Kodak) for reducing or eliminating the effects of dust,…
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64-Bit Desktops
Desktop systems based on IBM’s PowerPC 970 and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Athlon 64 processors place 64-bit computing within the reach of mainstream users without closing the door to 32-bit applications. This is important because for now—and for the foreseeable future—it’s a 32-bit world. eWEEK Labs recently tested Apple Computer Inc.’s Power Mac G5, driven…
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Marimba Adds Patch Management
Marimba Six, the latest hardware and software management suite from Marimba Inc., gains basic Windows patch management and software usage reporting capabilities. The Marimba Six suite, which shipped last month, is priced at $15 per managed device for software usage and $15 per managed device for patch management. In eWEEK Labs’ tests, Marimba Six enabled…
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How to Survive through Tough Times
In little more than a year, my staff was cut from 16 to two. our mandate, however, remained the same: Maintain the stability and reliability of enterprise data systems while developing new tools for business. My group is responsible for the applications, databases, intranets and extranets for what was once a $1.5 billion division of…
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Athlon 64 Adds Some Velocity
We may not have wide OS and driver support for 64-bit computing yet, but AMD’s Athlon 64 processors prove that having the headroom can be quite welcome, even in the 32-bit space. The latest speed bump to the standard (not FX) version of AMD’s 64-bit processor—the Athlon 64 3400+—brings a performance chip that competes quite…
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CRM Strategies: Loyalty Programs That Work
There are frequent-buyer programs, frequent-flier programs, frequent-player cards and frequent-dining coupons. There are points-at-the-pump schemes, turkey giveaways at Christmas (along with $100 copper roasters in which to cook them) and, as of November 2003, donations to charities for people who use their Starbucks loyalty card to buy coffee. There are plastic cards, smart cards, thermal…
