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IBM, Symbol Team on Wireless Blade
IBM and Symbol Technologies Inc. are teaming up on the first wireless LAN controller blade for IBMs blade server center, according to officials at...
Boot Questions Hang over Apples New Macs
The siren call of multiple-boot machines keeps insinuating itself into the left brains of IT managers, especially following Apple CEO Steve Jobs Tuesday unveiling...
Apple QuickTime Gets Security Makeover
Apple Computer Inc.s flagship QuickTime media player has received a security-centric makeover to plug several code execution vulnerabilities.
The release of QuickTime 7.0.4 comes months...
Mono to Be Included in Fedora Core 5
The Mono open-source development platform based on .Net will be in the next version of the Fedora core Linux distribution.
Christopher Blizzard, a systems engineer...
Panel: Federal IT Managers Increasingly Considering Linux
An increasing number of federal IT systems are being migrated from proprietary Unix systems to open-source Linux systems and desktops in order to gain...
Alliance Forms to Extend Ethernet Standard into New Areas
A new networking industry alliance launched itself Tuesday to promote the further spread of the IEEE 802 Ethernet standard technologies.
The new Ethernet Alliance, made...
Microsoft Dispenses Outlook-Flavored Elixir
Microsoft Corp. made available for public download on Monday the sample code and case study documentation for its "Project Elixir"—technology that makes Outlook a...
Security Audit Flags Thousands of Military User Accounts
Up to 20 percent of the computer accounts used by the U.S. military are unauthorized or abandoned, providing a major opportunity to hackers and...
Microsoft Plugs Critical E-Mail Server Holes
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released two security bulletins to fix "critical" flaws in several widely deployed products, including one that presents a remote unauthenticated...
Survey: Most BlackBerry Users Remain Loyal
Most customers of Research In Motion Inc.s BlackBerry wireless e-mail system and handhelds are satisfied with the companys products, but many also remain interested...