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E-Mail Security Services for Small Business and Individuals
A good number of Internet Service Providers offer decent security features, still many still don’t. If your ISP doesn’t block viruses or filter spam, or if your unhappy with their services, you have more options than you might think. Changing ISPs to one with better service isn’t necessarily an easy thing for many individuals and…
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MPC Delivers—Quietly
As individual customers, we often focus our attention on high-profile companies, the ones with the flashiest designs or coolest offerings. For large organizations, however, other considerations may outshine the flash of a marketing campaign or a high-profile halo product. MPC Computers, formerly Micron Computers, has been quietly executing in the background through the market downturn—and…
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Jabber XCP Generates Corporate IM
Jabber Inc.’s Jabber Extensible Communications Platform has a lot under the covers that brings IM beyond user-to-user communications. Unfortunately, Jabber XCP lacks the graphical management tools found in competing products. Jabber XCP 2.7 is available now, priced at $30 per user. In eWEEK Labs’ tests, we found a good deal to like in the way…
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Prism Patch Manager Packs a One-Two Punch
New Boundary Technologies Inc.’s new Prism Patch Manager, based in part on technology from St. Bernard Software Inc.’s UpdateExpert, is a good addition to any corporate IT manager’s arsenal of patch management tools. The combination of New Boundary’s Prism software deployment system and St. Bernard’s patch management system is part of a trend that IT…
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Ximian Takes Evolutionary Step Forward
This month’s release of Evolution 1.5 provides an early look at what’s set to change when Ximian Inc.’s popular e-mail and calendar application for Linux reaches its major Version 2.0 update in March. Evolution 1.5 is a development release intended for testing and bug hunting. In eWEEK Labs’ tests, we found the development label an…
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Review: Symantec’s Gateway Security 5460
Symantec Corp.’s Gateway Security 5460 Version 2.0 provides tight integration of security services and much-needed relief for networks with complex security architectures. However, administrators with networks requiring extremely fast transaction times should consider how much scanning is done at the gateway. The Gateway Security 5460, which began shipping in late October, is priced starting at…
