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(Clockwise from top) At CeBIT America in New York last month, a standing-room-only crowd gathered on the show floor for the announcement of the Best of CeBIT winners. (For a list of all the winners and finalists, go to www.eWEEK.com/labslinks.) * CeBIT America Vice President Bill Sell (left) congratulates NEC Solutions (America) Inc. Senior Vice […]

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Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from genethomas2095 “To all hackers, would be hackers, super techs and CSOs. If I have certain folders and files on C: encrypted, just really how safe are these files from intruders? Save a brute force attack on all […]

McAfee Security said it would hand out free copies of its McAfee SpamKiller on July 4 at selected retailers, as part of its “Independence from Spam Day” promotion. The first 20 visitors to each of 922 OfficeMax stores around the country will receive a free version of the SpamKiller software. In addition, the first 1,776 […]

Enterprise Storage HP Serves Up New Storage Services Hewlett-Packard Co. last week expanded its utility computing strategy with five new storage-related services that are also available to its channel partners. HP also enhanced its XP-series of disk arrays with improved pay-per-use capabilities that allow capacity to be turned on and off as needed. The five […]

When you think of companies that derive most of their revenue from mobile devices and software, you might think of Symbian or Research In Motion, but Nintendo certainly qualifies. In its 2002 fiscal year, about 60 percent of Nintendos hardware revenue came from its Game Boy products and about 70 percent of its higher-margin software […]

Digital Wireless Services Reach Hits 97 Percent About 278 million people, or 97 percent of the total U.S. population, live in counties where operators offer digital mobile telephone service, according to the FCCs Eighth Annual State of Competition Report on the wireless industry. Digital subscribers made up approximately 88 percent of all mobile telephone subscribers […]

Chin Dae-je, South Koreas Minister of Information and Communication and former president of Samsung Electronics, has lately been stressing the tremendous impact that government policies can have on both market leaders and newcomers in Koreas mature telecommunications market. Chin sat down with eWEEK Korea in a wide-ranging interview to discuss efforts to consolidate and promote […]

The dream of the digital home has been embodied by the Gates mansion, skewered in a very funny video by Propel CEO and philanthropist Steve Kirsch, and prototyped by companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, and Philips. In the latter case, the dwellings are home to a diverse group of futuristic gadgets that seamlessly integrate. […]

Exploits Symantec recently revealed that recent versions of their Symantec Security Check tool contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. The flaw lies in an ActiveX control installed by the tool. If a user with the affected control user visits a malicious web site, it could invoke the exploit, potentially executing arbitrary code. Symantec has replaced the […]

Enterprise Storage Voltaire Pumps Up iSCSI InfiniBand switch start-up Voltaire Inc. this week said it is the first vendor to pair iSCSI and InfiniBand. The company said its storage connectivity solution provides high-performance conductivity to Fibre Channel and IP storage area networks. In addition, the management and virtualization capabilities embedded in Voltaires InfiniBand-to-FC routers can […]

Research In Motions 1st-Quarter Loss Narrows Research In Motion on Wednesday posted a loss in its fiscal first quarter as revenue jumped 46% amid healthy subscriber growth. For the quarter ended May 31, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless device reported a net loss of $8.2 million, or 11 cents a share, compared with a […]