IBM TAKES AIM AT OFFICE WITH FREE PRODUCTIVITY APPS
IBM’s Symphony suite provides document, spreadsheet and presentations applications with support for Open Document format company has been championing.
SPRINT LAUNCHES HOME CELLS TO BOOST SIGNALS
Underdog mobile operator Sprint Nextel quietly rolled out an emerging technology on Monday to give customers a strong cellular signal and flat-rate calling at home.
FEDERAL CISOs SEEK SECURITY STANDARDS TO PREVENT DATA BREACHES
Federal CISOs, who are aware of data breaches in both the public and private sectors that have compromised personal information of thousands of people, say that security of laptops – the key to most telecommuter programs – is their biggest worry.
CAN CARRIER ETHERNET ANSWER THE CALL FOR BIGGER BANDWIDTH?
The Metro Ethernet Forum kicked off its series of carrier Ethernet for businesses seminars yesterday, delving into the value that carrier …
ENTERASYS UPGRADES NAC TO HANDLE GUEST DEVICES
Enterasys is issuing a new version of its NetSight management software that lets its NAC system set policies for unmanaged devices such as guest …
SCO SAYS THERE IS ‘SUBSTANTIAL DOUBT’ IT WILL SURVIVE
With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM unraveling, the SCO Group now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat.
LEAP WIRELESS SPURNS INITIAL METROPCS OFFER
Leap Wireless rejected initial merger proposal from MetroPCS that would have created a single wireless carrier with more than 6 million subscribers.
SOFTWARE ALLIANCE COLLECTS $3.5 MILLION FROM FIRM IN INFRINGEMENT CASE
The Business Software Alliance has collected a record settlement of nearly $3.5 million from an international media firm that was using …
WITH MICROSOFT RULING, A PRECENDENT FOR IT IN EUROPE
Microsoft suffered a humiliating legal defeat Monday when it lost a court appeal to overturn the European Commission’s 2004…
E-CARD INDUSTRY GETS THE MESSAGE FROM FRAUDSTERS
The e-card industry began seeing some pretty unfriendly greetings this past June. That’s when scammers started flooding e-mail in-boxes with fake greeting cards, trying to trick victims into clicking on links that would send them to malicious Web sites.
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Howard Charney, Cisco senior VP, admits to the audience at Networkers Australia that
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Microsoft Office under attack
BUZZBLOG: TIMES TO BECOME OLD GRAY SQUEEGEE LADY 🙂
On this the official 25th anniversary of the emoticon, we learn that New York Times staffers are about to look pretty funny standing out on street corners with buckets and squeegees as The Old Gray Lady launches a stoplight squeegee service to recoup revenue lost to the failure of its paid subscription program, TimesSelect.
TODAY ON LAYER 8, WHERE WE BARELY ACKNOWLEDGE TEXT MESSAGING EXISTS:
Purdue University will next Monday conduct what it calls the first large-scale, real-world test of using text messaging to issue emergency alerts.
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