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Appliances Optimize WAN Traffic

During the last few years, the WAN acceleration market has become rife with quality products. eWEEK Labs tested two of the most recent releases,...

Microsofts New Security Hat

No company has been more victimized by hacker attacks than Microsoft. The reasons for being targeted are no secret: Microsofts monopoly market share and...

Vista Gets ActiveX Installer

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Windows Vista to allow businesses to load ActiveX controls on systems running without admin privileges.The feature, called...

Windows Live Messenger Goes Gold – 2

Microsoft made available for download on June 19 the final version of its consumer instant messaging product, Windows Live Messenger.WLM is one of the...

$100 Laptop Affords Opportunity

I recently attended a technology awards event in Boston where Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child, showed a working model...

HP Notebook Hits Most Marks

Hewlett-Packards HP Compaq nc2400 is an ultraportable business notebook that offers good battery life and a built-in optical drive—features that are bound to draw...

Readers Respond: Microsoft: Trojans, Bots Are Significant and Tangible Threat

Regarding Ryan Naraines June 12 article "Microsoft: Trojans, Bots Are Significant and Tangible Threat" , I take issue with the characterization of Sony BMGs...

Is Microsoft Security Pricing Predatory?

Allegations of "predatory pricing" are beginning to swirl around Microsofts emergence as a player in the security software space.On the heels of the software...

Attack Uses Excel Attachments

Microsofts security response Center is recommending that businesses consider blocking Excel spreadsheet attachments at the network perimeter to help thwart targeted attacks that exploit...

The Buzz – 27

SecurityHomeland headacheNearly half of federal technology executives have no integrated plan to meet the Office of Management and Budgets latest homeland se-curity requirement, according...