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Humans are the weakest link in any security chain, a Gartner analyst said last week at the research firms 10th Annual IT Security Summit. “Social engineering is so powerful it can completely circumvent all of your security if done right,” said Rich Mogull, Gartners director of information security. Mogull also said that companies should carefully […]

EMC Corp. last week announced an agreement to sell Advanced Digital Information Corp.s (ADIC) Scalar family of tape libraries starting in July. ADIC will be responsible for delivery, implementation, and support of ADIC libraries sold through EMC. EMC is bringing ADIC libraries in order to fill out its product line to deliver on its information […]

BenQ Corp. last week started shipping its 16x DVD burners. The burner initial supports 16x in the +RW format. The company will develop advanced models to support Dual (both +RW and –RW) and DL (single-sided double layer disc) standards. Lite-On Technology Corp. will begin shipments of 16x DVD burners by the end of next month. […]

Quantum Corp. last week announced an update to software in its DX-series of hard-drive-based tape emulation appliances. The update, coming this fall, includes partitioning, which will allow customers to set up chargeback systems based on storage use. The company also announced a new rebate program for channel partners. Read the full story at CRN

Microsoft Corp. is working on a storage project that could lead to wider use of large clusters of inexpensive servers. The Boxwood project lets developers define the amount of storage they need at a level above block sizes and provide their own identifier for that space independent of actual storage address space. If successful, the […]

Andy Lees, Microsoft Corp.s new corporate vice president for server and tools marketing, discussed the Redmond, Wash., companys plans to increase integration across all its server products with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli late last month. The [Windows Server System] Common Engineering Roadmap could be perceived by customers as a move to make the latest […]

The latest release of the GNOME Desktop, 2.6.1, hit Web and FTP servers near you on 14 May 2004. Its purty, to be sure, and its fonts are anti-aliased. But, it eats your CPU, your RAM, your disk space, your bologna sandwich, and, if youre not careful, your small pets. Ive written in this space […]

LONDON (AP) _ British Telecommunications PLC plans to gradually shut down its traditional “circuit-switched” telephone network in favor of technologies that route calls over the Internet at a lower cost, with more features. The new system _ to cost an estimated 10 billion pounds ($18.2 billion) _ is expected to be operational for most of […]

May has come and gone without Microsoft releasing a promised second release-candidate beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Microsoft said earlier this year to expect Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of XP SP2 in May. Repeatedly, during the past two weeks, Microsoft officials have said RC2 would ship “sometime in the next few […]

Keynote kicked off its new awards programs by honoring the fastest and most reliable Web sites in two vertical categories: online trading and online banking. E*TRADE FINANCIAL won the Keynote Performance Awards for both Best Transaction Speed (avg. 4.17 seconds) and Best Transaction Reliability (avg. 99.55% reliability) for online trading. SunTrust won the Keynote Performance […]

Ameritrade, Inc., a subsidiary of Ameritrade Holding Corporation, continues to expand via acquisition. The company has agreed to purchase the online retail accounts of JB Oxford & Company, marking Ameritrades 7th acquisition since 2001. The addition of JB Oxfords retail business will add 50,000 accounts to Ameritrades count, which totaled 3,475,000 at the end of […]

RFID vendor Intermec Technologies Corp. is suing rival Matrics Inc. for patent infringement. One of the Intermec patents cited in the litigation covers a method of identifying the source of a particular data stream from among several tags. Another covers a means of synchronizing a chip by the frequency of its base station modulation. A […]