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Dell announces battery recall
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In co-operation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies worldwide, Dell is announcing the voluntary recall of approximately 4,1m Dell-branded lithium-ion batteries with cells manufactured by Sony. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could cause a risk of fire.
[Issue:One hundred and ninety nine (14/8/06 - 18/8/06)]
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Not so easy for African submarine cable
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With the proposed East Africa Submarine cable system (EASSy) fibre cable coming on stream in 2008, and the steady roll-out of national backbone and cross-border links, it might be expected that the proportion of African traffic carried by fibre would increase very quickly. This appears unlikely to happen within the next three to five years, according to a recent report from consultancy company, Balancing Act.
[Issue:Two hundred (21/8/06 - 25/8/06)]
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IBM acquires Internet security systems supplier
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IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Internet Security Systems, a publicly-held company based in Atlanta, Georgia, in an all-cash transaction, at a price of approximately $1,3bn, or $28 per share. The acquisition is subject to Internet Security Systems shareholder and regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
[Issue:Two hundred (21/8/06 - 25/8/06)]
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Intel announces layoffs, reorganisation
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Continuing his quest to stop a slide in profits, Intel chief executive, Paul Otellini, has announced layoffs of about 7 500 more people. Together with previously announced layoffs of middle management executives, and the sale of two business units in recent months, the actions will reduce Intel's workforce by a total of 10 500 people by 2008 - about 10% of the entire company.
[Issue:Two hundred and two (4/9/06 - 8/9/06)]
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Pressure mounts for Microsoft to patch IE flaw
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Hackers are intensifying their attacks on Internet Explorer users, increasing the chances that Microsoft will patch a critical flaw in the software ahead of its regularly scheduled October 10 security update.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Microsoft releases early patch for the VML flaw
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Microsoft has broken its patch Tuesday cycle, which falls on the second Tuesday of every month, to release a fix for the critical and widely exploited VML vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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IDC research predicts economic impact of Windows Vista
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Microsoft and research firm IDC have announced details of a study into the expected economic impact of Windows Vista in six key European markets - Germany, UK, France, Denmark, Poland and Spain.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Microsoft still scrambling to patch July bugs
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
It has become a familiar pattern: A hacker posts exploit code to a security Web site; Microsoft follows soon after with a warning to customers.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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IBM improves efficiency of PowerPC chips
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
IBM says that it has improved the power efficiency of two models of PowerPC processors, aiming to strengthen its position in markets from cars and printers to networking and communications equipment.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Tension envelops US oversight of ICANN
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Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
Internet governance experts remain divided over last week's decision to extend the US government's oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), with some calling it appropriate, and others portraying it as unwise.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Microsoft to fix Windows, Office security flaws
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
With hackers exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software, Microsoft plans to issue 11 security updates next Tuesday.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Hackers find use for Google Code Search
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Google has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company's source-code search engine, unveiled last week as a tool to help to simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that should not have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts say.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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French govt wants 4m online via fibre by 2012
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Peter Sayer, IDG News Service (Paris Bureau)
French Minister for industry, François Loos, wants service providers to link four million homes to the Internet using ultra-high-speed fibre to the home (FTTH) connections by 2012.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Nokia completes navigation software company buy
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Nokia has completed its acquisition of navigation software company Gate5 AG, just a week after licensing hundreds of navigation patents from Trimble Navigation.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Microsoft delivers Vista's final test version
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft has released what it believes will be the last test version of Windows Vista before the product is released to manufacturing.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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HP hires ethics and compliance officer
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is hiring a chief ethics and compliance officer to make sure that its businesses practices, sullied by a boardroom spying scandal, remain on the straight and narrow.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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SAS joins IBM's service-oriented architecture community
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SAS has announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty programme after completing IBM's SOA technical and business requirements. This is intended to enable the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform to integrate with the IBM SOA Foundation, which is a single, open set of software, best practices and patterns that aims to provide users with what they need to get started with SOA.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Sun thinks inside the box for data centre system
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
To help enterprises with expanding data centre needs, Sun Microsystems says that it decided to think inside the box.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Intel third quarter revenue reaches $8,7bn
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Intel has announced third quarter revenue of $8,7bn, operating income of $1,4bn, net income of $1,3bn and earnings per share (EPS) of 22 cents. Excluding the effects of share-based compensation, the company posted operating income of $1,7bn, net income of $1,5bn and EPS of 27 cents.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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MTN announces launch of commercial operations in Iran
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The MTN Group has announced the launch of commercial operations in the Islamic Republic of Iran, following the successful purchase of a 49% shareholding in Irancell.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Microsoft re-issues patch for Windows 2000
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Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld (US online)
A software security update released by Microsoft nine days ago to fix a flaw in Windows operating systems was re-issued Thursday after the company determined that the original patch did not completely fix a security problem for Windows 2000 users.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Sony details battery problems, replacement programme
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Sony has provided greater detail about a battery manufacturing problem that is expected to see the replacement of up to 9,6m laptop computer battery packs.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The browser wars are back. Just two weeks after Microsoft delivered its Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has shipped a major update to its Firefox browser.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Rambus CEO sees opportunity in Intel, AMD fight
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Rambus sees the microprocessor market share war between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as a possible way to win more orders from the PC industry, according to the company's CEO.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Verizon Business networks the UK's academics with SuperJANET5
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Verizon Business has announced the successful deployment of SuperJANET5, the UK's national research and education network, over a Verizon Business fibre-optic network.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Quantum leap for ADIC Africa
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With the recent acquisition of ADIC by Quantum Corporation, ADIC Africa has changed its name to Quantum Africa, aiming to reflect the expanded product range it will now bring to market.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Microsoft offers free small business software
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft has turned its accounting suite for small businesses into two separate offerings, one of which users can download for free starting today.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Microsoft takes legal moves against auction pirates
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Microsoft is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software, the company says.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Vulnerability found in Visual Studio 2005
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
A vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 could let an attacker execute code on a targeted Windows machine, Microsoft says.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Hacker project puts spotlight back on Mac security
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The security of Apple Computer's wireless drivers is under scrutiny again, thanks to a new hacker project.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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IBM introduces virtualisation dashboard
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
IBM is introducing a new tool to manage virtualised data centres even if the centre is running different types of virtualisation software.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Nearly 50% of new mobile phones have a camera - Gartner
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Worldwide sales of camera phones will account for 48% of total worldwide mobile phone sales in 2006, growing to 81% by 2010, according to new forecasts from Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Snom, Pingtel announce end-to-end enterprise communications solution
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snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of VoIP telephones, has announced a strategic partnership with Pingtel, a provider of SIP-based Enterprise Communications Systems (ECS).
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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E-voting problems still exist, critics say
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Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
Electronic voting machines remain vulnerable to attacks from people trying to steal elections and to glitches that incorrectly count votes, critics say as the US prepares for a national election.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Novell outlines details of agreement with Microsoft
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Novell has published additional details on the agreements announced with Microsoft on November 2, outlining the commitment made by both companies to address customers' growing requirement for Windows and Linux interoperability. The details were made available by Novell in a filing with the SEC.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Adobe Systems CFO resigns
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Randy Furr has resigned his position as executive vice-president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Adobe Systems after barely six months on the job.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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IBM 'revs up performance of x86 servers'
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IBM says that it is enhancing its line of x86 servers with the introduction of four, quad-core IBM systems and a blade utilising the quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processor.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Motorola to acquire Good Technology
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Motorola and Good Technology have signed a definitive agreement under which Motorola will acquire privately held Good Technology, a supplier of enterprise mobile computing software and services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Epson and Microsoft announce cross-license of their patent holdings
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Seiko Epson (Epson) and Microsoft have announced a cross-licensing agreement that allows increased access to each company's respective patent portfolios.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Mozilla: Firefox anti-phishing tool 'better than that of IE 7'
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Mozilla fired a shot back at Microsoft in the browser war's latest battle this week, using a company-sponsored study to claim that the anti-phishing filter in Firefox 2 more accurately flags potential phishing attacks than the one in Internet Explorer 7.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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PDA shipments grew by 32% in Q3 2006 - Gartner
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Driven by rapid growth in cellular PDAs, worldwide PDA shipments totalled 4,5m units in the third quarter of 2006, a 31,9% increase from the third quarter of 2005, according to Gartner. The average selling price (ASP) of PDAs in the third quarter of 2006 declined by 13% from the same period last year to $351.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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73% of European IT directors cite quality, reliability as VoIP worries
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Research from Compuware, the software and service company, has found that 73% of European IT executives are still worried about the quality and reliability of VoIP.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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IBM offers single sign-on tool for SMEs
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Peter Sayer, IDG News Service (Paris Bureau)
IBM has added a single sign-on tool to its Tivoli software range, aiming to make life easier for SMEs to link their Web sites with those of partners and customers.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Yemen's SabaFon boosts mobile subscriber base
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Motorola has signed an agreement with SabaFon to increase the coverage range and capacity of the operator's GSM network to serve a greater number of subscribers in Yemen.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Over half of Chinese malware aims to steal passwords - Sophos
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Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centres, have revealed that over half of all malware originating in China in October was designed to steal usernames and passwords.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Microsoft files more documents to avoid EU fine
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Paul Meller, IDG News Service (Brussels Bureau)
Microsoft submitted the latest batch of technical information about its Windows operating system to the European Commission anti-trust department yesterday, meeting the last in a string of deadlines imposed by the regulator over the past two years.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Worldwide server shipments grew by 9% in Q3 2006 - Gartner
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EMEA server shipments grew by 2,7%, while server revenue increased by 3,5% in the third quarter of 2006, according to Gartner. Worldwide server shipments for the third quarter of 2006 increased by 9,1% over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed by 4,4%, the company adds.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Siemens fraud investigation deepens
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Chris Mellor, Techworld.com
The investigation into fraud at Siemens now involves as much as 200m euros ($258m), ten times the liability previously admitted.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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UN summit addresses issue of growing e-waste
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products are the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in Nairobi.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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AMD rolls out Quad FX platform
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AMD has announced the Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture, which is designed to take advantage of the latest enhancements in Windows Vista Ultimate.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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AMD demonstrates native quad-core x86 server processor
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AMD has demonstrated a native quad-core x86 server processor, achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Ericsson, Intel to collaborate on mobile broadband services
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Ericsson has announced a joint effort with Intel to accelerate deployment of services and applications on mobile PCs, powered by Ericsson's mobile broadband and IMS solutions and Intel Core micro-architecture for mobile clients and servers.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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EMC announces support for Microsoft
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EMC has announced that its networked storage systems, software, services and solutions will fully support the next generations of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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BT selects Motorola to deploy wireless cities across the UK
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Motorola has been selected by BT to supply Mesh Wi-Fi network infrastructure and services for six of BT's Wireless City initiatives across the UK. The contract will see Motorola design, deploy and manage city-wide Wi-Fi networks with BT in, for example, Birmingham and Newcastle.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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HP settles civil lawsuit over spying
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has agreed to a $14,5m settlement in the California civil lawsuit related to the company's spying scandal.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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ICANN sees progress on revamped DNS
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Nancy Weil and Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Sao Paolo last week and made progress on a project to expand domain names to more languages and alphabets.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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New vulnerabilities threaten Christmas shoppers
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At the time when online Christmas shopping is at its peak, several vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft applications have been identified, two affecting Microsoft Word, and the other affecting Windows Media Player. These flaws could allow malicious programs to be run on victims' computers to capture confidential information.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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HP unveils multi-core workstation computing
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HP says that it has introduced energy-efficient multi-core workstations featuring volume quad-core processors from Intel.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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IT Policy Compliance Group launches Web site
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The IT Policy Compliance Group says that it has launched a Web site - www.ITPolicyCompliance.com.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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HP and Microsoft challenge IBM with new deal
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is strengthening ties to Microsoft to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market while delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Large organisations cut IT spending growth for 2007 - Gartner
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Organisations with more than $1bn in revenue have reforecast their IT spending increase for 2007 to 2,8%, according to the Gartner Consulting Worldwide IT Benchmark Report.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Oracle now giving early notice of security updates
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Oracle has taken a cue from Microsoft and started giving its customers an early warning of what they can expect from upcoming security patch releases.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Investigator pleads guilty in HP case
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Private investigator, Bryan Wagner, has pleaded guilty to two charges in federal court in San Jose, California, and agreed to co-operate with federal officials investigating the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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BMC Software signs with SSL Nigeria
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BMC Software has announced that Nigerian systems integrator and software applications developer, Soft Solutions Limited (SSL), has signed a solution provider contract for the BMC Service Desk Express (SDE) suite (formerly Magic).
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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McAfee updates study of search engine safety
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McAfee has released a follow-up report to its study from May, which claims that search engine users continue to be at significant risk of clicking through to Web sites that can compromise their online safety.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Majitek joins Software AG and Fujitsu on SOA governance
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Majitek, a supplier of distributed systems technologies and advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), has become a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite Community (www.soaworks.com).
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Intel fourth-quarter revenue hits $9,7bn
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Intel has announced fourth-quarter revenue of $9,7bn, operating income of $1,5bn, net income of $1,5bn and earnings per share (EPS) of 26 cents.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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California offers Dunn, former HP execs, plea deals
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The California attorney-general has offered to drop felony charges against the four remaining defendants charged in the Hewlett-Packard spying case if they plead guilty to one misdemeanour each, according to published reports.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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HP takes lead in Q4 worldwide PC shipments - Gartner
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According to Gartner, worldwide PC unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2006 grew by 7,4% compared to a year ago. During the quarter, 67,3m units were shipped.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Cisco admits iPhone licence violation
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Cisco Systems plans to resolve a licence compliance issue regarding the use of Linux in one of its iPhones, the company wrote in a blog posting, but a researcher contends that Cisco has more work to do.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Consumer spending on mobile music will surpass $32bn by 2010 - Gartner
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The amount of money that mobile phone users worldwide spend on music received on mobile handsets will reach $32,2bn by 2010, up from $13,7bn in 2007, according to forecasts from Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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China Internet market grows to 137m users
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
China has added another 14m Internet users in 2006, retaining its status as the world's second largest Internet market, with 137m total users, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) has announced.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Amorous messages disguise major 'Net attack
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IT security firm Sophos has warned of a major malicious attack that has been affecting Internet users since 2:00 GMT yesterday (Wednesday).
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Vista, Office 2007 launch begins in Asia
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
The first retail copies of Microsoft's Vista operating system were sold in New Zealand as the clock turned midnight on Monday night.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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IBM advancing global-based software development
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Paul Krill, InfoWorld (US online)
Building on its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software, IBM Rational will offer versions of its products geared toward global co-operative development with an eye toward boosting SOA during this year.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Nokia's sales up, market share steady
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Nokia reports strong sales and profits for the fourth quarter and year-end, but had a couple of dark spots, namely continued declines in North America and a slipping average selling price of phones.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Francisco Partners offers R1,85bn for Mincom
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Mincom, a global software and services provider to asset-intensive industries, and Francisco Partners, a global technology-focused private equity firm, have entered into an implementation agreement.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Michael Dell back in charge as Rollins exits Dell
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Two and a half years after handing the chief executive title to his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins, Michael Dell is again running the company he founded, Dell.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Vodafone's emerging markets drive growth
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Vodafone Group PLC had almost 200m customers by December 31, but continues to face challenges in the competitive and saturated European market.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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'Huge progress with 3G evolution in 2006'
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New research by GSA - the Global Mobile Suppliers Association, on the evolution of 3G mobile networks confirms the huge progress made in 2006, ushering in an era of mobile broadband enabled by WCDMA-HSDPA and GSM/EDGE.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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European employees put business data at risk - McAfee
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McAfee has announced findings which reveal that European businesses are increasingly at risk from the inside, as employees repeatedly expose valuable and sensitive company information.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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IBM announces Cell/B.E. contest
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IBM has announced a programming contest for college and university students in 25 different countries, offering cash prizes and awards for the most innovative applications of the breakthrough Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.).
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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AMD appoints senior vice-president
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AMD has appointed Douglas Grose to the role of senior vice-president of technology development, manufacturing and supply chain.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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NeoAccel appoints vice-president of marketing
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NeoAccel, a supplier of secure network access solutions, has named Frank Guerrero as vice-president of marketing.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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MWEB launches WiMax for Namibia
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When it comes to deregulation of broadband, Namibia has scored a significant first by deregulating wireless access and awarding the relevant frequencies for the first commercial application of WiMax technology to a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP).
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Vodafone launches YouTube mobile
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone has announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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3GSM: Sony Ericsson to outline UIQ plans
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB plans to make an announcement tomorrow about its strategy for the UIQ interface that runs on the Symbian mobile phone operating system.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Oracle announces Linux support for Oracle Communications
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Oracle has announced that Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management will support the Linux platform. The announcement is said to further Oracle's commitment to deliver application functionality on Linux.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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3GSM: Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterprise
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Nokia is aiming to boost the use of mobile e-mail in the enterprise with a further release of its Intellisync software and several handsets aimed at business users.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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83% of mobile operators hit by mobile device infections - McAfee
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McAfee has announced research that reveals that mobile operators globally are experiencing more mobile malware attacks than ever before, and spending more time and money on recovery from these attacks.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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3GSM: Motorola 'connects the unconnected'
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Motorola has delivered a portfolio of devices and solutions that aim to demonstrate the company's ability in design, music, media, high-speed performance, wireless broadband and connecting the unconnected.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Psst, wanna save $140 on Windows Vista?
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Eric Lai and Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online)
Microsoft's licensing terms and anti-piracy measures for Windows started getting more complicated after it launched Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) two years ago, much to the chagrin of confused customers.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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Phishing scam uses Google Maps to locate victims
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Darren Pauli, Computerworld Australia
Account holders with at least two Australian banks have become victims of a phishing scam in which malicious code reveals the physical location of affected IP addresses using Google Maps. Bank account holders in Germany and the USA have also been targeted.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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Dodgy program advertised on MSN Messenger
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Banner advertisements for a security application said to report false or inflated threats appeared for at least a few days on Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) program, prompting warnings from security analysts.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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Enterasys demonstrates Microsoft Network Access Protection interoperability
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Enterasys Networks says that it has completed interoperability testing of its Secure Networks products with the Microsoft Network Access Protection policy enforcement platform.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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IBM boosts support for business partners using Open Source technologies
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IBM has announced a range of resources targeted at business partners using open source technologies. IBM says that it will provide companies with free access to its sales, marketing and technical consultants, allowing them to bring their offerings to market quicker and expand into new markets.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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iLAYO Software Solutions acquires 31% of Puleng Technology
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iLAYO Software Solutions has bought a 31% stake in Puleng Technology in a deal that aims to strengthen both companies' ITIL-based infrastructure management capabilities.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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EMEA printer, copier and MFP market grew 5% in the second half of 2006 - Gartner
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Shipments of copiers and multifunctional products in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) outnumbered shipments of printers for the first time during the second half of 2006, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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Unisys OASIS 'pioneers the right model for open source services' - Forrester
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ICT World exclusive
Forrester Research, the independent technology and market research company, has recognised the OASIS framework from Unisys as a significant breakthrough in deployment of open source software for enterprise computing in a recently published report.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Vista's UI is a 'step back,' analyst says
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Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online)
Vista's user interface suffers from more "friction" than its predecessor XP, a French analyst says, and is actually a step back for Microsoft in its pursuit of Apple's Mac OS X.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Partnership to bring technology to developing countries
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Members of a special UN group have met with Silicon Valley leaders to explore how the technology industry, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can come together to bolster development around the world.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Sanyo and Lenovo may share cost of battery recall
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Japanese electronics company, Sanyo Electric, and computer vendor, Lenovo, are discussing how to pay for the recall of over 200 000 laptop PC batteries, and may end up sharing the burden.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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New phishing scam
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A phishing mail in circulation, drafted to look like an official Annual Account Review notification from Bank of America, tries to pilfer personal financial information of the bank's customers by advising them to update their account details online.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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AppLabs completes first phase of testing for TRUSTe program
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AppLabs Technologies, an independent software testing company, says that it has completed the first major phase of testing for TRUSTe's Trusted Download Program.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Global ECB storage market grew by 4,1% in 2006 - Gartner
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Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue totalled $15,2bn in 2006, a 4,1% increase over 2005 revenue of $14,6bn, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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T-Systems signs IT outsourcing contract
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T-Systems says that it has signed a ten-year IT outsourcing contract with Centrica plc, under which it will assume responsibility for part of Centrica's IT infrastructure, including data centre operations and desktop support services for more than 23 000 users.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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US govt department bans Microsoft upgrades for now
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Gregg Keizer and Eric Lai, Computerworld (US online)
The US Department of Transportation has quietly put the kibosh on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), banning upgrades to those Microsoft products - at least for now.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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BEA and CA announce strategic partnership
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BEA Systems and CA have announced a partnership to further streamline and simplify Identity and Access Management (IAM) across the enterprise - aiming to help customers to reduce IT costs and improve performance by combining Web single sign-on, user management, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Cisco and IBM expand Global Services Alliance
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Cisco and IBM have announced the expansion of their Global Services Alliance and their collaboration to provide product maintenance services for mutual enterprise customers in 46 new countries, including SA.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Software suite integrates PBX functionality with prepaid system
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Berlin-based 4S newcom has introduced its latest product range for fixed, mobile converged VoIP. The software suite, 4S FMCd, is designed to integrate PBX functionality with a carrier-grade prepaid system to offer high-level IP Centrex functionality to mobile users.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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OKI Printing Solutions ships one millionth colour printer
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OKI Printing Solutions, locally represented by Printacom, has this month shipped its one millionth digital LED colour page printer.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Financial services industry led global server revenue in 2006 - Gartner
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The financial services industry (including three major sub-segments: investment services, banking and insurance) led all vertical markets in server revenue, as it accounted for 25,1% of worldwide server revenue in 2006, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Intel partners with Evotec
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Intel and Evotec Technologies, a global provider of technology and equipment for modern cell research, are working together to develop and implement technologies for faster results and cost reductions in pharmaceutical research.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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GSA announces 100 commercial HSDPA networks worldwide
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GSA - the Global mobile Suppliers Association, has confirmed that 100 HSDPA networks have commercially launched mobile broadband services in 54 countries.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Data leakage, targeted attacks lead to hackers' gain - Symantec
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The latest Internet Security Threat Report released by Symantec reveals that the current Internet threat environment is characterised by an increase in data theft, data leakage, and the creation of targeted, malicious code for the purpose of stealing confidential information.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Oracle buys in-memory data grid supplier
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Oracle is to acquire Tangosol, a provider of reliable in-memory data grid software.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Intel to build wafer fab in China
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Intel has announced plans to build a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) in the coastal Northeast China city of Dalian, which is in Liaoning province. The $2,5bn factory designated Fab 68 will become Intel's first wafer fab in Asia.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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SAS releases fight money laundering
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SAS has announced the latest release of its Anti-Money Laundering solution, which incorporates additional enhancements designed to help financial institutions to combat money laundering.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Don't bank on your savings' safety
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PandaLabs reports that banker Trojans designed to steal financial information are evolving rapidly. One recent example, the StealAll.A Trojan, injects a DLL in the Internet browser to steal data that users enter in online forms.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Banks call for international co-operation to combat fraud
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First Data International, a global supplier of electronic commerce and payment services, has announced the findings from a study of banking fraud in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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XON partners with global ERP company
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XON Systems, the local black-owned IT systems group, has entered into a global alliance agreement with Watermark, a multinational business partner for Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Sophos warns of widespread European pump-and-dump campaign
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IT security and control firm Sophos has warned European investors of the danger of pump-and-dump stock scams, following the discovery of a spam campaign designed to manipulate the share price of a company listed on the German stock exchange.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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EC sues Apple, others over pricing
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Paul Meller, IDG News Service (Brussels Bureau)
The European Commission (EC) has charged Apple and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the commission confirms.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Blogger posts Windows Vista SP1 fixes on Web site
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Elizabeth Montalbano IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
The owner of a blog dedicated to software patches has posted online more than 100 fixes he says are expected to be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft's first major update to its latest Windows client OS.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Enterprise management suite 'delivers affordable control'
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Lieberman Software has released User Manager Pro Suite, a systems management solution designed to integrate the company's User Manager Pro flagship product with password management and consolidated reporting tools.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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GSA survey confirms over 250 HSDPA devices
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The latest 'HSDPA Devices' survey undertaken by GSA - the Global mobile Suppliers Association, underlines the huge rise in the number of HSDPA devices now available.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Software AG to acquire webMethods
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Software AG, one of Europe's largest systems software and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) providers, and webMethods, a business integration and optimisation software company, have entered into a definitive agreement for Software AG to acquire webMethods in a cash tender offer for $9,15 per share or approximately $546m.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Spyware on the increase
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Panda Software says that spyware accounted for 31% of all infections detected in March. These spy programs aim to compile information about users' Internet activity for various purposes, such as displaying personalised adverts.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Microsoft patches critical Windows flaws
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Microsoft has released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches, fixing critical flaws in Windows and the Microsoft Content Management Server.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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US military plans to put Internet router in space
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
The US military plans to test an Internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Qualcomm rejects $20m Nokia payment
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Qualcomm has rejected a $20m payment from Nokia for royalties on patented Qualcomm technology, snuffing out a possible resolution of part of the companies' ongoing intellectual-property dispute.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Microsoft's top lawyer happy with Vista Ready info
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Microsoft's top lawyer says that he is happy with the information that the company provided about its Vista operating system, and its compatibility with existing PCs, ahead of the software's launch in January this year.Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Indian offshore service providers set sights on Europe - Gartner
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Indian offshore service providers are posing a challenge to continental European competitors as enterprises within Europe increasingly seek to take advantage of global sourcing, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Microsoft releases Media Player plug-in for Firefox
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Microsoft has released an official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Nokia Siemens Networks starts operations
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Nokia has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks started operations on April 1, it says that the company is ready to help its customers across the globe to meet the challenges of connecting the five billion people that the company believes will be 'always on' by 2015.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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APC-MGE appoints regional director: Africa
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Following the recent announcement by Schneider Electric on the completion of the acquisition of American Power Conversion Corporation (APC), subsequent to satisfaction of the closing conditions of the merger agreement, the newly formed APC-MGE has embarked on the finalisation of its management team.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Hacker breaks into Mac at security conference
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)
A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a $10 000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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Former Apple execs may be charged this week
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Two former executives of Apple may face legal action this week by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for their roles in the stock options backdating scandal at the computer company, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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Gateway's bandwidth capacity up by 84%
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Gateway Communications (Gateway), an independent provider of satellite services focused solely on the African market, has increased its contracted satellite capacity bandwidth to 555MHz, up by 84% from 302MHz a year ago.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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IBM lays off 1315 workers, union says
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Dan Nystedt and Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
IBM has laid off 1315 US workers from its global services division, says a union group under the Communications Workers of America.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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ICT industry accounts for 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions - Gartner
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The global ICT industry accounts for approximately two percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, a figure equivalent to aviation, according to a new estimate by Gartner. Despite the overall environmental value of IT, Gartner believes that this is unsustainable.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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Nortel adds revenue, cuts loss in Q1
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Nortel Networks increased its revenue and trimmed its losses in the first quarter of 2007 versus the same period last year, reporting strong growth in enterprise networks and in Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile networks.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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IBM to offer infrastructure solution for IPTV
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IBM has announced an Internet protocol television (IPTV) infrastructure solution for service providers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa who want to offer next-generation IPTV entertainment services along with their data and voice services.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Symantec introduces operational and residency service models
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Symantec has announced two service models, Symantec Operational Services and Symantec Residency Services, offered through Symantec Global Services, now available across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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EMC launches global collaborative research network
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EMC has announced the formation of the EMC Innovation Network. The global, collaborative community comprises EMC research, advanced development resources, university research partners and key customers who will seek to drive the exploration, discovery and application of new technologies that will shape the future of information infrastructure.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Technology investment 'provides foundation for the future'
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Astute, the financial services exchange used by 18 000 financial advisers nationally, and in Namibia, is in the process of upgrading all aspects of its technology, aiming to ensure a solid platform for future growth.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Sun's JavaFX helps bridge digital divide - McNealy
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John Ribeiro, IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau)
Sun Microsystems expects that technologies like its JavaFX Script scripting language, and JavaFX Mobile software for mobile devices, will help to bridge the digital divide.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Microsoft demands royalties for open source software
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Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Singapore Bureau)
Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Siemens posts second quarter results
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In posting its results in the second quarter 2007 (ended March 31, 2007), Siemens says that it successfully concluded its Fit4More programme by achieving the profitability, growth and portfolio goals planned for April 2007.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Verizon Business to acquire Cybertrust
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Verizon Business has announced a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Cybertrust, a privately held provider of global information security services. Financial terms were not disclosed.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Symantec files software piracy suits totalling more than $55m
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Symantec has filed a series of eight civil lawsuits against distributors of counterfeit Symantec software, seeking a total of more than $55m in damages from the cases involved.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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PC shipments in Western Europe up by 11% in Q107 - Gartner
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PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 13,3m units in the first quarter of 2007, an 11,25% growth compared to the same period in 2006. Sales of PCs in the consumer market continued to bolster the overall PC shipments driven by the unabated demand for mobile PCs.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Axe falls on Gartner's consulting division
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Mitchell Bingemann, Computerworld Australia
Effective Wednesday, Gartner's consulting operations in Australia and Hong Kong ceased to be, according to a leaked e-mail to IDG.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Siemens names new CEO
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service
Siemens AG has named Merck & Co's Peter Loscher as its new president and CEO in an effort to break with recent scandals that have plagued the company.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Symantec worldwide study indicates data centres in crisis
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Symantec has announced the findings of a study indicating that IT professionals worldwide struggle with the increasing complexity of data centre management while facing fewer resources.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Intel eliminates use of lead from future microprocessors
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Intel has announced that its future processors, beginning with its entire family of 45nm high-k metal gate (Hi-k) processors, are going 100% lead-free.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Emerging markets are driving global innovation - Gartner
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In today's hyper competitive global business environment, CEOs are placing innovation at the top of their agenda, but finding that their IT organisations are lacking in visionary thinking and innovation.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Huawei Technologies and Symantec to form JV
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Symantec and Huawei Technologies are forming a joint venture company. The company will develop and distribute security and storage appliances to global telecommunications carriers and enterprises.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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India 'could lose 45% of outsourcing market share'
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India's reign as the world's 'Outsourcing king' appears to be on the decline, even if one considers its extremely low call centre - and software development - costs, says Peter Denny, a director of black-empowered IT training company, IT Intellect.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Gartner revises down forecast for contract chip makers
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Contract chip makers will have a worse time than expected this year, says market researcher Gartner, as it revised down its revenue growth target for 2007 to 5,1%.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Graham Technology launches ciboodle in Africa
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Graham Technology, a provider of customer-oriented business software and services, has launched its flagship customer interaction product, ciboodle, into the African market at a trade show in Kenya.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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IBM, partners expand technology agreements
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IBM and its Common Platform technology partners, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics, along with joint-development alliance partners, Infineon Technologies AG and Freescale Semiconductor, have signed a series of semiconductor process development and manufacturing agreements.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Revenue from online classified advertising in Oz up by 50%
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Total online classifieds advertising revenue in Australia grew by 50% year-on-year in 2006. This growth was driven mainly by increasing audience shift from print to online media.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Dell to lay off 10% of employees
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Dell will lay off 10% of its 88 100 workers, in a continuing effort to improve profits as the company also completes an investigation of accounting fraud.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Prepare now, the 20-hour job description is coming - Gartner
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By 2015, a significant increase in 'less-time' roles will increase the total number of knowledge workers and decrease the average number of hours each works per week, according to new research from Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Global semiconductor market to grow just 2,5% in 2007 - Gartner
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Due to more severe declines in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) average selling prices (ASPs) than previously expected, and continued price competition in the computer micro-processing unit (MPU) segment, Gartner has lowered its 2007 worldwide semiconductor forecast to $269,2bn, a 2,5% increase from 2006. In Gartner's previous forecast, it predicted a 2007 revenue increase of 6,4%.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Datatec in US acquisition
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Datatec has acquired Carotek's IT Division (Carotek ITD), based in Matthews, North Carolina, for $6,9m, which is to be settled by $3,4m in cash and the issue of 624 092 new ordinary R0,01 shares in Datatec. The vendors have entered into a restriction over selling these shares.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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No sign of cybercrime relenting
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Panda Software is able to reveal that Trojans and adware were responsible for almost half of all infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in May.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Intel introduces '3-series' chipsets at Computex
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In his opening keynote at the Computex computer trade show, Intel executive vice-president, Sean Maloney, unveiled the Intel 3 Series chipset family, along with several other technology plans that surround the company's Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad processors for home and business PC users.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Ernst & Young launches information security survey
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Ernst & Young has launched its 10th Global Information Security Survey (GISS) and is urging all local companies to participate.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Late IT projects linked to lower profits, poor business outcomes
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A survey of 1125 IT professionals based in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific reveals a clear link between slower delivery of IT projects and services and lower business profitability.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Verizon Business tops 2,5m users for mobility access services
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Verizon Business says that it now has more than 2,5m users for its mobility e-mail and data access services that help on-the-go workers connect to corporate resources.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Microsoft clarifies virtualisation licensing - for now
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft has released a white paper clarifying how licensing for its current version of Windows Server works when paired with virtualisation software. However, customers may face a whole new set of licensing rules once the next version, Windows Server 2008, is released later this year.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Apple CEO unveils Safari browser for Windows
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Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online)
For his traditional last-minute surprise near the end of the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, announced that the company is releasing a beta of its Safari browser that runs on the rival Windows operating system.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Launch of Climate Savers Computing Initiative
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Intel and Google have joined with Dell, EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric, World Wildlife Fund, and more than a dozen additional organisations to form the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (www.climatesaverscomputing.org).
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Samsung opens biggest chip plant in Texas
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Samsung Electronics has opened a $3,5bn memory chip factory in Austin, the biggest such plant in Texas.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Safari for Windows: All about the money?
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)
The debate is still on about why Apple decided to develop a version of its Safari browser for Windows.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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CNN chooses Clickatell to power breaking news service
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CNN has chosen mobile messaging provider, Clickatell, to power the promotional version of its 'Breaking News Alert' SMS service to mobile phone users around the world. The promotional service is set to go live this month.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Xerox invents fluorescent writing to deter counterfeiting
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Xerox has developed a technology designed to print fluorescent words and letters without fluorescent ink, and aiming to make it easier to place a high level of security on any document, from personal cheques to birth certificates. The ink can be used in any standard printer.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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USB flash drive worm spreads information about Aids, reports Sophos
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IT security and control firm, Sophos, has discovered a worm which copies itself onto removable drives, such as USB flash drives, in an attempt to spread information about Aids and HIV.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Sun needs AMD chips to launch supercomputer
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a high-performance computer at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Altech granted broadband licence in Rwanda
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Allied Technologies (Altech) has announced that Altech Stream Rwanda, one of its African subsidiaries, has been granted a licence to deliver broadband Internet access services in Rwandan cities.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Worldwide PC shipments to increase by 11% - Gartner
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Without a 'killer application' to drive new PC sales, manufacturers are leveraging emerging markets to boost global PC sales in 2007, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Malicious codes are being distributed through MySpace
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PandaLabs warns of the appearance of several malicious codes that are using MySpace pages to spread. In some cases, these pages have not been specifically created to spread malware, but have been modified to serve this malicious purpose by exploiting a vulnerability or design flaw without the legitimate user knowing.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty two (2/7/07 - 6/7/07)]
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GSA confirms 800m GSM/WCDMA/HSDPA subscribers in HSDPA-enabled networks
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Two surveys by GSA - the Global mobile Suppliers Association, confirm the accelerating pace of deployment of mobile broadband networks and services enabled by HSPA - High Speed Packet Access, and the evolution of downlink data speeds.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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AMD unleashes ATI Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400
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AMD has announced the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series, the mid-range and entry-level graphics processors in the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Partnership formed to distribute SOA-based solutions
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Fiorano Software, a provider of business process integration and messaging technology solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Enterprise integration and development services specialist, Applied Technology Solutions.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Infor CRM surpasses 10 000 concurrent users in IBM benchmark
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IBM says that it has benchmarked the performance of Infor CRM Epiphany beyond 10 000 concurrent users in a real world test.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty two (2/7/07 - 6/7/07)]
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Logitech, Carl Zeiss announce collaboration
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Logitech, a manufacturer of webcams, and Carl Zeiss, have announced a collaboration aiming to deliver improved image quality for video calling and sharing.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty two (2/7/07 - 6/7/07)]
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Microsoft retires NetMeeting
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Joris Evers, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application, and will instead push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings.
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Ericsson 'showcases potential of mobile TV'
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Global telecommunications services company, Ericsson, has given live demonstrations of mobile TV using its Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS).
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Sophos warns of bogus Microsoft security bulletin
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IT security and control firm, Sophos, is warning users of a widespread attempt to infect e-mail recipients by sending a warning about a bogus Microsoft security patch.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Google threatens to drop Gmail in Germany
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
Google is unhappy with proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts and may consider dropping the German version of its Gmail service.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Wi-Fi Alliance starts testing draft 802.11n gear
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched the action phase of its plan to get faster wireless networking products into the market, kicking off certification testing of gear based on a draft version of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia strengthen commitment to the African region
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At the EU-Africa Business Forum held recently in Accra, Ghana, Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia reiterated the companies' commitment and strategic direction in the African region. With a vision to increase communications access to urban and rural areas, the two companies aim to connect the people of Africa.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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HP 'helps enterprises accelerate delivery of IT'
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HP has announced an expansion of its Business Technology Optimisation (BTO) capabilities, aiming to help IT organisations to improve efficiencies and deliver better business outcomes.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty one (25/6/07 - 29/6/07)]
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Novell announces real-time Linux enhancements and partnerships
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Novell has announced enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time and unveiled partnerships that aim to expand the ecosystem around Novell's low latency Linux solution.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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BC Partners to acquire majority of Intelsat
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Intelsat, a provider of fixed satellite services, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the purchase of a majority of the shares of its parent company, Intelsat Holdings, by funds advised by BC Partners (BCEC funds) and certain other investors.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Security holes in Mozilla Thunderbird 2 patched
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Stuart Johnston, PC World (US)
Mozilla has shipped a minor update of its e-mail client, Thunderbird 2, version 2.0.0.4, that, among other things, fixes a couple of security holes.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Online crime group logs millionth complaint
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Online consumers in the US have had a million things to complain about. Literally.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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WWB initiative 'facilitates clients' SOX compliance'
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Law firm Webber Wentzel Bowens (WWB) says that it has enhanced its specialist ICT service offerings to ensure that it is able to assist its clients to comply with both international and local corporate governance legislation.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Unified Communications sees strong adoption in Australia
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The unified communications (UC) market is experiencing good traction in Australia. Current deployments scale from as low as 200 users to over 40 000 users.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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English Wikipedia unblocked in China
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
Wikimedia Foundation's English-language site was accessible in China again last Friday, although its simplified Chinese-language site remained blocked.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Space station computer woes manageable, says NASA
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Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld (US online)
As technicians from NASA and the Russian Space Agency worked feverishly to fix two Russian computers that shut down aboard the International Space Station last Wednesday, NASA's space station manager says that he is confident that the problems will be resolved.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software.
[Issue:Two hundred and forty (18/6/07 - 22/6/07)]
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Unisys debuts SOA for ClearPath
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Unisys has announced Unisys SOA for ClearPath, a portfolio of services and a suite of tools designed to enable mainframe applications to participate in service oriented architecture (SOA).
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Microsoft taps Linux veteran to lead Novell interop lab
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft has appointed an executive to lead its efforts to make its software more interoperable with Novell's Suse Linux.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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IBM delivers chip technology improvements
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At the annual Design Automation Conference IBM announced semiconductor products that leverage several IBM chip technology enhancements.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Acquisitions expand Datatec's African footprint
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Datatec has announced that its subsidiary, Westcon Africa Middle East (Westcon), has acquired a 51% interest in the Sparnoon-Dynatech Group, an established African ICT distributor.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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'World stock exchanges trust AMD Opteron processors'
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AMD has announced that Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, is now among the stock exchanges that depend upon AMD Opteron processor-based systems to conduct stock trade transactions.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Sony Ericsson to unveil 9GB Walkman mobile phone
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will today (Thursday) launch six phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9GB of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Australian BFSI outsourcing market set for growth
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Growth in the IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) markets within the Australian banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector is set to accelerate over the next four years.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Agilent receives principal WiMAX Forum status
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Agilent Technologies, distributed locally by Concilium Technologies, has been awarded principal member status by the WiMAX Forum. Agilent has been actively involved in the forum since 2004, introducing test equipment to support WiMAX technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty nine (11/6/07 - 15/6/07)]
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Apple updates MacBook Pro
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Apple says that it has updated its MacBook Pro line of notebooks with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in an aluminium enclosure that is one inch thick.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Avaya in $8,2bn merger
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Avaya has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Silver Lake, an investment firm focused on large-scale investments in technology-driven growth industries, and TPG Capital, a private investment partnership, for approximately $8,2bn or $17,50 per common share.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Capgemini and Novell enter mixed-source partnership
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Capgemini and Novell have announced a partnership that aims to deliver solutions to enterprise customers who use a combination of open source and proprietary software.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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BMI-T Communication Technologies Handbook extends coverage
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African ICT market research and analyst firm, BMI-TechKnowledge, has announced that its Communication Technologies Handbook, which is currently in its 15th year of publication, has been extended to cover the Middle East telecommunications market.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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GE completes agreement for Sophos solution
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Sophos has announced that GE has completed an agreement to begin deploying Sophos' security & control solution.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Novell supports Xen virtualisation at BMW
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Novell has announced that the BMW Group is using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell with integrated Xen virtualisation software to implement virtualised workloads in its data centre, aiming to reduce hardware costs and to simplify deployment.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Canal+ Group stays in synch with customers via Informatica
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Informatica, a global data integration software company, has announced that the CANAL+ Group, a French pay-TV company, has implemented the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform and Informatica PowerExchange mainframe access software, aiming to help to optimise its customer relationship management (CRM) processes.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Gateway subsidiary raises $40m for pan-African pay-TV service
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Gateway Broadcast Services, an unrestricted subsidiary of Gateway Telecommunications, has raised an additional $40m to finance the roll-out of its pan-African pay-TV service, GTV.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Oracle re-engineers African high school student administration
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Following the Oracle consortium's participation in the NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project, where 21 schools in seven African countries were turned into e-Schools, Oracle is tackling the challenge of student administration, a common issue faced by educators across the continent.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty eight (4/6/07 - 8/6/07)]
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Software AG completes acquisition of webMethods
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Software AG has announced the successful acquisition of webMethods, a business integration and optimisation software company. With a deal value of $546m, this merger is one of the largest pure software deals in the history of the European IT industry.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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AMD announces embedded solutions
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AMD has announced an expansion of its embedded solutions offerings to include the AMD Sempron Processor Model 2100+ and the AMD Geode LX 800 @ 0.9W Processor, which, the company says, can now support designs to be deployed in harsh temperature environments.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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VIA to drive the emergence of Mobility 2.0 at VTF2007
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VIA Technologies, an innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, has disclosed more details about the 'Ultra mobility' central theme of VIA Technology Forum 2007 (VTF2007) to be held on June 6.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Bloggers represent SA at TEDGlobal Conference
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Two of SA's leading bloggers will attend the first ever TEDGlobal conference in Africa. It will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, from June 4 - 7.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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'Rising awareness of telepresence creates opportunities'
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The growing prominence of telepresence augurs well for the future of the visual communications industry. The huge investments in promoting telepresence made in 2006 by Cisco in particular have generated greater awareness.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Rockwell Automation meets ARC benchmark
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Rockwell Automation says that it now develops solutions in terms of turnkey applications, installation and post-sales services.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Unisys in Gartner Leaders quadrant
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Gartner has positioned Unisys in the Leaders quadrant in its North American Magic Quadrant reports: 'Desktop Outsourcing Services 2006 and Help Desk Outsourcing 2006'.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Iomega REV products supported by Symantec Software
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Iomega, a global supplier of data storage and protection solutions, has announced that Symantec Back-up Exec 11d for Windows Servers now natively support all Iomega REV drive automation products, including the desktop form factor Iomega REV Loader.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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Vodafone's CRM system sees the dark during upgrade
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Howard Dahdah, Computerworld Australia
A CRM upgrade which caused Vodafone Australia's pre-paid service to 'brown out' for over a week was totally foreseen, says the company.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty seven (28/5/07 - 1/6/07)]
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SAS rolls out three enhanced solutions
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SAS has announced new versions of three of its performance management solutions: SAS Financial Management, SAS Human Capital Management and SAS Strategic Performance Management. All three aim to help organisations worldwide to improve performance and stimulate profitable growth.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Worldwide server shipments grew 6% while revenue grew 4.5% in Q107 - Gartner
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Worldwide server shipments for the first quarter of 2007 increased by 6% over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed by 4,5% according to Gartner. Worldwide server revenues totalled $12,9bn for the quarter, as worldwide servers shipments reached just over 2,1m units.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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SAS Forum 2007 kicks off in Stockholm
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An executive conference kicked off yesterday at Stockholmsmassan, Stockholm International Fairs, in the capital city of Sweden.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Canon Europe 'improves forecasting with Oracle applications'
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Canon Europe's Consumer Imaging Business (CCI) has deployed Oracle's supply chain planning applications, aiming to improve forecasting, product allocation, order promising and supply chain planning operations across its headquarters, 17 countries and 13 warehouses.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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AMD details next-generation platform for notebook PCs
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At a press conference in Tokyo, AMD has officially disclosed more details of its next-generation open platform for notebook computing. Codenamed 'Puma', the platform is designed to deliver battery life, graphics and video processing enhancements and improved overall system performance for an enhanced visual experience.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Corsair selects Oracle E-Business Suite
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Corsair, a designer and manufacturer of high-speed memory modules for consumer electronics, has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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Oracle invests in Sophoi
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Oracle has made a strategic minority investment in Sophoi, a privately-held, provider of enterprise intellectual property management software.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty six (21/5/07 - 25/5/07)]
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EMC, Oracle join Unbreakable Linux support programme
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EMC and Oracle recently announced several key areas of joint support as part of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux programme. The EMC E-Lab, together with Oracle Engineering, says that it has tested and qualified Oracle Enterprise Linux on core EMC platforms and software products to help ensure ease of deployment and use.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Oracle buys product lifecycle management supplier
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Oracle has agreed to acquire Agile Software, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions, through a cash merger for $8,10 per share, or approximately $495m.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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AMD speeds up I/O virtualisation
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AMD has announced broad availability of the latest version of its I/O virtualisation technology specification, which is said to be enhanced with stronger and more secure input/output connections.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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SAP and Novell deliver expanded Linux support options
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SAP AG and Novell have extended their relationship to offer a joint support solution for customers who run their SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Siemens joins forces with PineApp
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Siemens Enterprise Communications has teamed up with PineApp, a supplier of e-mail and Web security appliances, to deliver converged voice and data solutions to SMEs.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Step up search for talented people in the digital age - Gartner
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As many as 60% of IT organisations will under-perform as they fail to attract and regain the employees they will need to succeed in the digital age, according to Gartner. Few organisations are prepared for the new levels of competition, spurred by globalisation and new work-related rules in their search for and retention of talented employees.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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AMD's Phenom 'fascinates'
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AMD has unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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Sears Holdings selects MicroStrategy
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MicroStrategy, a global provider of BI software, has been selected by Sears Holdings to support multiple BI applications.
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Irish supermarket chain implements Psion technology
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Irish supermarket chain Superquinn, based in Dublin, has invested in excess of 400 000 Euros with Psion Teklogix's Irish partner, Heavey RF, to replace a label stock-picking system with advanced voice picking technology. The solution includes a wireless network as well as handheld and forklift-mounted computers and full integration into the host SAP system.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty five (14/5/07 - 18/5/07)]
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'Rivals switch to Sophos'
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Sophos has announced significant growth for its final quarter, ending March 31, 2007, led by the North American market. Sophos's worldwide bookings increased by 40%, with growth in North America topping 70% compared to the same quarter last year. The company also experienced strong growth in Europe, SA and Asia-Pacific.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Microsoft and SanDisk 'create new experience'
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Microsoft and SanDisk have signed an agreement to deliver a next-generation software and hardware solution to place application programs and personal customisation on USB flash drives and flash memory cards, expanding on and replacing SanDisk's existing U3T Smart Technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Customers realise benefits of Microsoft-Novell agreement
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Microsoft and Novell have announced that 12 customers have so far signed up to take advantage of the companies' collaboration.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Compuware introduces Changepoint supply and demand accelerator
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Compuware has announced that its IT management solution, Changepoint, now offers prepackaged product and services that deliver a defined set of management capabilities in a defined timeframe and at a known cost.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Business Connexion partners with Indian company
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Business Connexion has concluded an agreement with India's KPIT Cummins, which will see it working with a global partner to strengthen its delivery capability in the application services and business process outsourcing (BPO) fields.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Dell joins Microsoft and Novell collaboration
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Microsoft and Novell have announced that Dell is the first major systems provider to join the business collaboration that was formed by Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for greater interoperability and intellectual property (IP) assurance.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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TIBCO to acquire Spotfire
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TIBCO Software has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Spotfire, a privately held software company, and a supplier of next-generation business intelligence (BI) software, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $195m.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Mitel to acquire Inter-Tel
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Mitel Networks and Inter-Tel (Delaware) have signed a definitive merger agreement whereby Mitel will acquire Inter-Tel, a full-service provider of business communications solutions for $25,60 per Inter-Tel share in cash, representing a total purchase price of approximately $723m.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Accsys delivers software management solution for Botswana Post
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Botswana Postal Services (BotswanaPost) has enhanced its payroll management software with an upgrade from the Accsys DOS system, Nugen, to the windows software system, Accsys Peopleware.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Boost for IT security in Namibia
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Business Connexion (BCX) Namibia will be providing managed security services for its clients through the services of SA IT security firm, Telspace Systems.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty four (7/5/07 - 11/5/07)]
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Acer forecasts huge sales gains in laptops, desktops
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Acer will make big gains sales gains this year in both desktop and laptop PCs, the company's chairman says.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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Dimension Data increases shareholding in Brazil operation
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Dimension Data has acquired an additional 40,1% interest in Datacraft Americas Holdings (DCAH), the 100% holding company of Datacraft do Brazil Ltda, for an undisclosed amount.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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TI plans $1bn expansion in the Philippines
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Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Singapore Bureau)
Texas Instruments (TI) plans to invest $1bn in the Philippines over the next ten years to expand its chip assembly operations.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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Europe warns Germany over telecom law
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Paul Meller, IDG News Service (Brussels Bureau)
The European Commission has sent the German government a final warning over the telecom law it passed last year in breach of European rules.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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80% of active Internet users will have a 'second life' - Gartner
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By the end of 2011, 80% of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a 'second life', but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty three (30/4/07 - 4/5/07)]
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EMC, Oracle join forces in Linux support programme
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EMC and Oracle have announced several key areas of joint support as part of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux programme. The EMC E-Lab, together with Oracle engineering, has tested and qualified Oracle Enterprise Linux on core EMC platforms and software products, aiming to help to ensure ease of deployment and use.
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Altech and CityNet to provide broadband Internet access services
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Altech has announced the signing of a technology and distribution agreement with USA-based CityNet Wireless and its global licensing partner, CityNet Wireless International.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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AMD looks to raise $2,2bn through debt sale
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Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Singapore Bureau)
Less than one week after disclosing a $611m first-quarter loss, chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) says that it hopes to raise up to $2,2bn through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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Alcatel-Lucent sales, operating profit dip in Q2
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
First-quarter operating profit dipped at telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA on weak sales of the company's products for wireless and core networks.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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HP files second patent lawsuit against Acer
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Hewlett-Packard (HP), has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer, as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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Portable adoption drives EMEA PC market growth Q1 - IDC
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Driven by continuing demand for portable systems across the region, PC sales in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) outpaced expectations in the first quarter of the year, according to preliminary data from IDC.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty two (23/4/07 - 27/4/07)]
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Automotive supplier 'increases reporting accuracy'
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Psion Teklogix, a global provider of solutions for mobile computing, wireless data collection, imaging and RFID, has announced that US Tire & Exhaust, a division of US Oil Co, has implemented a custom mobile computing solution, jointly developed by Psion Teklogix and DNS Technologies, to record the delivery and invoicing activity of its delivery fleet in real time.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Concilium and AirMagnet optimise Cisco Unified Network
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Official local distributor, Concilium Technologies, has announced the immediate availability of AirMagnet's Enterprise Analyzer 3.0 for the Cisco Unified Network.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Verizon Business 'delivers on application aware strategy for the global market'
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Verizon Business says that its customers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America can now achieve improved levels of performance for applications like VoIP, enterprise resource planning and video.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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MicroStrategy and SPSS extend global alliance
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MicroStrategy, a global provider of business intelligence (BI) software, and SPSS, a worldwide provider of predictive analytics software, have extended their alliance agreement. As part of the renewed agreement, the companies will continue to engage in co-operative marketing and joint business development programmes.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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'Innovation, processing performance and co-operation key to moving forward faster' - Intel
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At Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing, Intel executives have detailed more than 20 products, aimed at making the World Wide Web, computers and consumer electronics devices much more responsive, friendlier and secure.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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New model malware spreads stiletto pics via Skype - Sophos
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IT security and control firm, Sophos, has reminded companies of the potential impact of VoIP and instant messaging (IM) applications on enterprise networks following the discovery of a worm that spreads via Skype's IM chat system.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Novell joins The Green Grid
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Novell has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of IT companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data centre.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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HP and VIA launch commercial PC for China
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VIA Technologies, a developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, and HP have unveiled the HP Compaq dx2020, said to be a highly energy efficient commercial PC for the China market powered by the VIA C7-D desktop processor.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty one (16/4/07 - 20/4/07)]
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Experian notes jump in UK identity theft reports
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Identity thieves are showing more determination in picking out victims, while the number of reported UK victims of identity theft continues to rise, according to data released by credit-checking agency, Experian.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Europe's dot-eu Internet domain turns one year old
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Europe's top-level Internet domain, dot-eu, turns one year old this week, and has already become the continent's number three regional domain name.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Skype to test VoIP service for the enterprise
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Matt Hamblen, Computerworld (US online)
Skype is in the early stages of testing an enterprise-class version of its service and is soliciting interest in an early adopter programme by businesses with more than 1000 employees.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Apple delays Leopard, blames iPhone
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)
Apple says that it will not release Leopard, the next version of the Mac operating system, in early June as planned, blaming the delay on the iPhone.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Datatec in 20,7m pound acquisition
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Datatec has conditionally agreed to acquire the Crane Telecommunications Group, a UK-based European value-added distributor of voice, data and converged communications solutions, from various shareholders, including Apax PP Nominees, for a maximum consideration of 20,7m pounds.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Palm prepares Linux platform for future smartphones
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Palm is to unveil a platform before the end of this year that runs the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, allowing the company to improve the performance and stability of its handhelds and smartphones, says CEO, Ed Colligan.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirty (9/4/07 - 13/4/07)]
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Semiconductor market grew by 10% in 2006 - Gartner
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Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $262,7bn in 2006, a 10,2% increase from 2005 revenue of $238,3bn, according to final results from Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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AMD strengthens offerings
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At the Embedded Systems Conference held in San Jose this week, AMD announced the continued expansion of its embedded product offerings with the release of the AMD M690 Chipset for Embedded Designs, which aims to provide a stable and reliable commercial embedded computing platform that includes graphics and performance features along with connectivity options.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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HP creates environmental declaration for printing supplies
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HP has announced what it says is the definitive environmental self declaration for printing supplies, called the 'IT Eco Declaration for Print Supplies'. This aims to enable purchasers of printing supplies to make informed, environmentally-aware choices - regardless of which company's supplies they purchase.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Allfinanz and Munich Re announce global relationship
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Allfinanz and Munich Re have concluded a global marketing and co-operation agreement with a view to providing life insurers with technology and underwriting rules that will help them to process their life and health new business more efficiently.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Iomega announces data recovery services in Europe
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Iomega, a global supplier of data storage and security services, has announced Iomega Data Recovery Services in Europe.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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CSL implements Tibco's SOA software
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Tibco has announced that CSL New World Mobility (CSL), a Hong Kong mobile operator, has upgraded its IT environment with Tibco's service-oriented architecture (SOA) software, aiming to improve operational execution and increase market agility.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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Dicom announces scanner roadshow
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Dicom is to embark on a roadshow in the Middle East and Africa, which aims to inform businesses about document scanners and capture technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-nine (2/4/07 - 6/4/07)]
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HP to acquire Tabblo
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HP has signed an agreement to acquire Tabblo, a privately-held developer of Web-based software located in Cambridge, Mass.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Accenture and SAS to enhance BI services capabilities
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Accenture plans to expand its business intelligence (BI) services through increased collaboration with SAS.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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MS/Novell collaboration roadmap to focus on virtualisation
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Microsoft and Novell have announced more details about their joint technical roadmap and the benefits that customers can expect from the collaboration.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 'safeguards Africa University'
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Africa University says that it is using McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator enterprise anti-virus solution to ensure that all of its networked computers have the most updated anti-virus protection
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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Motorola to manage Bangladesh network
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Motorola has been awarded a four-year full operations and managed services contract by Warid Telecom for its GSM and Canopy networks in major cities and sub-districts in the eastern part of Bangladesh.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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GijimaAst partners with Microsoft Business Solutions
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GijimaAst's Microsoft Professional Services Division is partnering with Microsoft's Dynamics Division to launch the Microsoft Dynamics Ax into the local mid-market in line with global trends.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-eight (26/3/07 - 30/3/07)]
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snom, Patton announce interoperability
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snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of VoIP telephones, has announced a strategic partnership with Patton Electronics Company, a supplier of business-class network access, connectivity and VoIP equipment.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Fibre Channel HBA company ships more than a million ports
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QLogic, a supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), has announced that, as a result of its 2006 shipments, it now has the largest installed base of 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel HBA ports of any supplier.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Novell solution 'streamlines enterprise user provisioning'
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At BrainShare 2007, Novell has announced the latest version of the company's user-provisioning and identity management solution.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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IBM and Cisco in partnership
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IBM and Cisco will partner to provide emergency crisis response capabilities for the first time as an end-to-end managed service.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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FrontRange Solutions acquires enteo Software
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FrontRange Solutions, a global supplier of IT Service Management, CRM and voice applications for the mid-market and distributed enterprise, has signed an agreement to acquire enteo Software, a developer of PC Lifecycle Management & Citrix Management solutions.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Novell chooses AppLabs as NATC in India
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AppLabs, an independent software testing company, has announced that its India centre has been chosen by Novell to be a lead Novell Authorised Testing Centre (NATC) for providing SUSE Linux and Novell NetWare YES certification testing in India.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Foster-Melliar forms partnership with ILX group
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Foster-Melliar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Simeka BSG, and local provider of ITIL and ITSM in partnership with the ILX Group plc, says that it is making strides in computer-based training (CBT), aiming to provide a more convenient way to study for the ITIL Foundation and PRINCE 2 qualification at a time and pace convenient to each student.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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Global survey of communications executives identifies Skype-like services as primary cause of declining revenues
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Survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oracle finds that voice calls are expected to cease to be the primary revenue source for fixed-line communications service providers within six years.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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BIPractice, Cognos SA aim to shake up the BI landscape
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Sybase SA's BIPractice and Cognos SA look set to shake up the BI landscape with the appointment of Sybase SA as a Certified Cognos Partner for the Cognos 8 BI Suite of products.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-seven (19/3/07 - 23/3/07)]
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HSBC taps Microsoft-Novell agreement
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Microsoft and Novell have announced that HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations, is to take advantage of the recent collaboration between Microsoft and Novell.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Interactive Intelligence enhances network-based routing system
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Interactive Intelligence, a global developer of business communications software, says that it has enhanced Interaction Director, the company's intelligent, network-based, pre- and post-call routing system for contact centres.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Networks select Intelsat for direct-to-home programming in Africa
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Intelsat has announced that UK-based ViewAfrica and ViewAsia Networks have launched two regional platforms on the Intelsat system, expanding their programme offering in Africa and Asia.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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AMD appoints chief for Middle East, Africa and Pakistan
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AMD has announced the appointment of Gautam Srivastava as vice-president, sales and marketing; and MD: Middle East, Africa (MEA) and Pakistan.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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HP extends digital photography offering
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HP has made a series of announcements intended to make its digital photography offering a complete experience for consumers, professional photographers and graphic artists.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Globalisation driving demand for enterprise WAN services
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The market for global enterprise wide area network (WAN) services continues to record strong growth, particularly as a result of multinational companies expanding their international presence. This is the finding of recent research conducted by global growth consultancy, Frost & Sullivan.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-six (12/3/07 - 16/3/07)]
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Microsoft hits Google over book search model
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
A Microsoft attorney will attack Google's book search service in a speech today to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Intel pitches plan to beat chip glut
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft's Windows Vista OS, Intel hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, said Intel CEO, Paul Otellini.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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CA announces support for Viper
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CA has announced that more than 30 CA products -across its database management, security management, information retrieval and resource management product lines - will support IBM DB2 9 Viper for z/OS when it becomes generally available on March 16.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Motorola on the rise in Africa
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Judi Nwokedi, newly appointed country manager for Motorola SA, has announced the company's upcoming plans for SA and sub-Saharan Africa countries. In her new role Nkowedi says that she will support Motorola's businesses in delivering seamless mobility solutions.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Cisco expands Microsoft interoperability
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Cisco has announced that it is expanding Microsoft interoperability to provide collaborative real-time capabilities for customers using Cisco Unified Communications solutions with Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005, and Microsoft Office Communicator.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Intel drives open standards for in-car infotainment
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Intel and BMW are aiming to create a seamless experience between office, home and car that will deliver on the rapidly evolving in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) expectations of end-users.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Globalisation driving the demand for Enterprise WAN Services
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The market for global enterprise wide area network (WAN) services continues to record strong growth, particularly as a result of multinational companies expanding their international presence.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-five (5/3/07 - 9/3/07)]
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Asia-Pac governments support smart homes
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In an effort to stay ahead of the technology adoption curve, governments in Asia-Pacific have been actively driving the home networking industry by backing initiatives in home networking research and development (R&D) and deployment of services.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Heinz chooses Sophos for Web, desktop and application security
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Sophos says that global food giant, Heinz, has deployed its security solutions across EMEA and APAC, aiming to protect thousands of employees against malware attacks and unauthorised application use.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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GSA survey confirms 53% surge in HSDPA products
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Two surveys from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), confirm the launch of dozens of new user devices for mobile broadband services enabled by High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), and the rapid evolution of network data speeds.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Most important security threats in 2006 and trends for 2007
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BitDefender has announced that the widest spread viruses in 2006 were still the ones propagated via the e-mail, the top 10 of such viruses posing such a big threat that they accounted for 55% of the total number of infections detected by BitDefender.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Lorge takes SAP operation into Botswana
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Mid-market ERP solutions provider, Lorge, is establishing a SAP Business One operation in Botswana to provide financial and business software solutions and services to the growing SME markets in Gaborone, Francistown and other centres.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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Green Grid powers up to save energy
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The Green Grid, a group of technology companies collaborating to improve energy efficiency in data centres, is officially open for business.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-four (26/2/07 - 2/3/07)]
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'Tackling security threats is key to business success in SME arena'
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McAfee and MessageLabs have announced global research that reveals the majority of SMEs believe an IT security breach would be detrimental in achieving their business priorities.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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IT enters new computing phase with architectural shift
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Sandra Rossi, Computerworld Australia
In a bid to generate strategic advantage, IT is entering a new phase of computing, with real-time integration of the front and back office to create a new paradigm.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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CTO: Red Hat unaffected by Oracle, Novell
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Red Hat has scheduled a March release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5), the latest version of its open source operating system, while it tries to fend off new competitive threats from Oracle and the Microsoft-Novell partnership.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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3GSM: Enterprises are uncertain about mobile security
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Uncertainty about how to secure mobile phones in the face of increasing threats is slowing enterprise adoption of mobile applications, say experts exhibiting at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Intel, Motion Computing pilot MCA device
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Intel has announced the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) platform, which aims to enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected, and manage the administration of medications.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-three (19/2/07 - 23/2/07)]
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AMD to license graphics technology optimised for handheld devices
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AMD has announced a new business focused on developing and licensing graphics core technologies to semiconductor manufacturers throughout the handheld industry.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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LG demonstrates the 'Shine' phone
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LG Electronics has announced its second model in the premium 'Black Label' series, which will be known to the consumer as the LG 'Shine' phone. The 'Shine' will initially be launched in Europe and is expected to arrive in SA during May this year.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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FutureBazaar partners with AppLabs Technologies on security testing
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AppLabs Technologies, an independent software testing company, has been appointed by FutureBazaar India, a subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail (India), to carry out security testing of its e-retail Web site: www.futurebazaar.com.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Motorola deploys WiMAX for Wateen Telecom-Pakistan
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Motorola says that it has deployed Wateen Telecom's WiMAX network in 17 major cities across Pakistan, including Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. The two companies have also carried out end-to-end voice and data calls over the network.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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MicroStrategy converts corporate strategy into operational outputs
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Nampak has implemented a solution from global business intelligence (BI) supplier, MicroStrategy, to convert corporate strategy into operational outputs.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Motorola, GSMA conduct alternative power trial
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Motorola has signed an agreement with the GSM Association (GSMA) and MTC Namibia to conduct a trial for wind and solar power systems to support the African operator's remote GSM cell sites.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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Carrick partners with Symantec
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Carrick, a national provider of IT security services and support, has partnered with global security specialist, Symantec, in a campaign aiming to highlight the benefits of the Sygate security solution incorporating Enterprise Protection.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-two (12/2/07 - 16/2/07)]
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CA receives certification from Windows Vista
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CA has announced that its CA Anti-Virus 2007, for home and home office, has received Checkmark certification from West Coast Labs on the Windows Vista Home Premium platform, meeting independent criteria for protection against viruses.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Will you be a cyber-crook's Valentine?
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"As Valentine's Day approaches, users should keep a wary eye on any romantic messages received by e-mail, as many of them could contain malicious code," warns Jeremy Matthews, MD of Panda Software SA.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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e.com institute partners with Azeus
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e.com institute, a provider of ICT solutions for large enterprises and governments globally, has recently signed a strategic alliance with Azeus, an Asia Pacific-based ICT services provider with a strong focus on bespoke software development.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Microsoft again hits software piracy
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Microsoft says it will continue to 'come down hard' on software piracy after reaching a multi-million dollar settlement with French company, MPO Group, which is linked to the distribution of thousands of counterfeit copies of its server software.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Oberdata and Tectura form strategic alliance
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Local Microsoft Dynamics partner, Oberdata, has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Tectura, a global provider of Microsoft integrated business solutions to mid-market companies, larger enterprises and their divisions.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Ericsson, MTN sign MoU worth $388m
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Global telecoms company, Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with mobile communications group MTN to further expand the group's network operations across Africa and the Middle East.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Novell previews next-generation solutions
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Novell is previewing enhancements to its flagship security and identity management solutions, Sentinel 6 and Identity Manager 3.5, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Oracle delivers communications industry milestone
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Oracle has announced a key product milestone in the Oracle Service Delivery Platform (SDP) roadmap - Oracle Communication and Mobility Server (OCMS).
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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Williams names Lenovo as sponsor
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Lenovo has announced a sponsorship agreement with the Williams team competing in the Formula One World Championship.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty-one (5/2/07 - 9/2/07)]
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PSA Peugeot Citroen chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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PSA Peugeot Citroen, the second largest automobile manufacturer in Europe, and Novell have signed a multi-year contract allowing the deployment of up to 20 000 Linux desktops plus 2 500 Linux servers from Novell.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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New Zealand continues passport system overhaul
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Rob O'Neill, Computerworld New Zealand
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs has taken another step towards overhauling the country's passport system.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Older people can remain independent for longer - Intel
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To address the growing wave of ageing citizens in Europe and around the world, Intel, in conjunction with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland, has announced a multi-million-dollar research initiative aimed at developing innovative technologies that will help people 'age in place' from wherever they choose to live.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Adobe to release PDF spec for industry standardisation
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Adobe Systems intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Fewer qualified security experts puts businesses at risk - McAfee
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McAfee has revealed findings which show that businesses have reached a compliance breaking point and that organisations are finding themselves more vulnerable to reputation risk due to new compliance-related legislation being rolled out around the world.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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HP to help companies with enterprise SOA strategy
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HP is to offer services to support an enterprise service-oriented architecture (Enterprise SOA) blueprint from SAP, aiming to help customers to achieve better integration and alignment of people, information and business processes across business and technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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Motorola makes TETRA ready for take-off at Munich Airport
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Motorola has won a contract to supply a TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) digital radio system to Munich Airport, the second largest airport in Germany.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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IBM and Ricoh to create JV printing systems company
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Ricoh and IBM have announced the formation of a joint venture company based on IBM's Printing Systems Division, as Ricoh aims to strengthen its capabilities in output solutions, including production printing.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Freeware optimises Vista on PCs
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Denise Dubie, Network World (US)
Even with all the work Microsoft has put into Vista, some contend that the latest Windows product might need help when it comes to day-to-day performance. That is why a Chinese start-up updated its freeware application to optimise the latest desktop operating system.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Genesys named in voice portals leaders quadrant
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Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, an Alcatel-Lucent company, has announced that market research firm Gartner, has placed Genesys in the leaders quadrant of its new report, Magic Quadrant for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals, 2006 published December 5, 2006, and authored by Steve Cramoysan, Bern Elliot and Drew Kraus.
[Issue:Two hundred and twenty (29/01/07 - 2/2/07)]
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MicroStrategy to provide Paramount with enterprise BI
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MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, has announced that it will support Paramount Pictures' enterprise BI programme, which will provide reporting and analytics for multiple areas across the company. Paramount Pictures is a unit of Viacom.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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AMD pins hopes on 'Barcelona' chip
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Struggling to rebound from a $574m loss in fourth quarter earnings, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has pinned its hopes for recovery in 2007 to its planned 'Barcelona' quad-core Opteron server chip.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Visa launches mobile platform
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Visa has launched a mobile platform that is claimed to lay the foundation for the commercial availability of mobile payments and services to millions of mobile users around the world.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Datatec appoints non-executive director
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Datatec has announced the appointment of Stephen Davidson as a non-executive director with effect from 1 February 2007.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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Microsoft offers Vista preview to fight piracy
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft is offering a free online 'test drive' of its Windows Vista OS in its latest effort to fight software piracy and counterfeiting.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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HP to open research lab in Russia
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Peter Sayer
Hewlett-Packard is recruiting researchers to tackle fundamental problems in information management at a new laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia.
[Issue:Two hundred and nineteen (22/01/07 - 26/01/07)]
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AMD completes capacity expansion at Dresden, Germany fab complex
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Construction of AMD's Bump and Test facility is complete, approximately seven months after the foundation stone was laid last year. AMD is now outfitting the 20 000 square metre building with equipment, and has already installed the first production tools in the clean room area.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Samsung heir apparent gets a promotion
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
The heir apparent to South Korea's powerful Samsung Group has moved a step closer to the top job at Samsung Electronics.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Obsidian Systems employee gets Red Hat qualification
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Riaan van Niekerk, systems architect for Obsidian Systems, has become the first individual outside of the USA to obtain the Red Hat Certified Salesperson qualification, a certification that recognises competency and familiarity with the full Red Hat product set.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Microsoft pushes premium versions of Vista
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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Microsoft wants to make sure consumers and small businesses know there are myriad ways they can acquire Windows Vista - particularly in premium versions - when it becomes generally available on January 30.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Sophos acquires Endforce
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Sophos has acquired Endforce, a supplier of endpoint security policy compliance and network access control (NAC) solutions for enterprise customers.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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AMD announces development of DTX Open Standard
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AMD has announced development of DTX, an open standard specification designed by AMD which aims to enable the broad adoption of small form factor PCs.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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IBM takes community approach to SOA
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China Martens, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
IBM will shortly announce officially the first two in a planned series of eight centres around the world designed to help build up local expertise in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to IT development.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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Avaya to buy SIP software developer
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
In a move to beef up its Internet networking expertise, communications vendor, Avaya, has agreed to acquire Ubiquity Software PLC, a developer of software applications using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and eighteen (15/01/07 - 19/01/07)]
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IBM, Intel initiative 'accelerates virtualisation on multi-processor servers'
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IBM and Intel have joined in an initiative aimed at improving how IT managers select, deploy and measure virtualised server solutions for enterprise data centres.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Oracle solution 'doubles up database data protection'
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According to a recently published report by Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle Data Guard, a feature of Oracle Database 10g, helps customers to increase availability and data consistency, to reduce downtime, and to add a superior level of data protection, compared to standard tape back-up and remote mirroring systems.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Avaya introduces 3rd-generation DEM interface
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Avaya, a global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, has introduced its third-generation directory enabled management (DEM) interface, a building block that is designed to connect enterprise business applications intelligently with IP telephony software, messaging systems and media servers.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Skype to start charging US, Canada users for calls
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Internet phone service provider, Skype, plans to start charging US and Canadian users $29,95 per year for unlimited calls to regular phones in both countries, as the end of a free trial offer looms.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Motorola wins $75m GSM expansion contract
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Motorola has signed a $75m GSM network expansion contract with M-tel, a mobile communications operator in Nigeria. This expansion is intended to enable M-Tel to extend its coverage across Nigeria.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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AMD, IBM use immersion and ultra low-k in 45nm chips
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At the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), IBM and AMD presented papers describing the use of immersion lithography, ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics, and multiple enhanced transistor strain techniques for application to the 45nm microprocessor process generation.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Exchange Server 2007 released to manufacturing
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Microsoft says that it has finished development of a new version of its Exchange messaging server a week after the company celebrated its launch alongside new releases of the Windows client OS and Microsoft Office.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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Pirates work around Vista's activation feature
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.
[Issue:Two hundred and sixteen (11/12/06 - 15/12/06)]
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FSC introduces Primergy servers based on Intel's quad processors
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has announced the introduction of five Primergy server models: the tower models TX200 and TX300 S3, the rack-based models RX200 and RX300 S3 as well as the blade servers BX620 S3.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Softline ACCPAC acquires isoPOS
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Softline ACCPAC has acquired retail specialist isoPOS, a specialised software development house, which focuses on add-on software packages that integrate seamlessly with Accpac ERP.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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LG solutions debut in Dubai
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In line with its theme 'Digital Harmony', LG Electronics is to showcase its technologies in the consumer electronics segment during this year's GITEX and Shopper exhibitions in Dubai.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Growing African market chooses HansaWorld
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Affordable enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that do not need high bandwidth or expensive hardware are making rapid inroads into the African business market. Software provider, HansaWorld, is extending its reseller network throughout the continent, recently appointing value-added resellers (VARs) in Kenya, Ghana and Botswana.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Vodafone awards Motorola a contract in Turkey
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Motorola has won a major contract to upgrade, extend and manage Vodafone's nationwide GSM network in Turkey.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Oracle announces Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite
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Oracle has announced the availability of the Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, which is a component of Oracle Identity Management.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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UK acquisition 'enhances relationships with IBM and HP'
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Datatec has acquired CSF Solutions (CSF), a UK-based enterprise IT solutions provider, and has also agreed terms to acquire from CSF Managed Services the assets of a tier III data centre in Bracknell.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Toshiba develops 100GB 1,8-inch HDD
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Higher capacity music players and laptop computers could be on the way thanks to a new hard-disk drive from Toshiba which is claimed to manage a 25% jump in storage space over current models.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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CERNET selects Motorola's HotZone Duo for public access
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Motorola has announced that China Education and Research Network (CERNET), has selected Motorola's HotZone Duo solution to provide public access for three campuses.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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Spescom DataFusion becomes Avaya platinum partner
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Spescom DataFusion, the group's call centre operation, has achieved platinum partnership status with Avaya.
[Issue:Two hundred and fifteen (4/12/06 - 8/12/06)]
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ProCurve Networking now number 2 - Dell'Oro
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ProCurve Networking by HP is now the world's second largest global enterprise networking vendor in revenue, ports and Power over Ethernet (PoE), according to a recent report by market research firm, Dell'Oro Group.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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O2 Airwave and Motorola sign contract for Tetra PDAs
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Motorola has announced the signing of a contract with Airwave O2 to supply Motorola MTC100 PDAs that operate on TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (Tetra) networks. Motorola will start the shipment at the end of the year.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Macys.com picks SAS Marketmax
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SAS is to deploy Marketmax planning software at Macys.com, aiming to help the retailer customise its merchandising processes. Macys.com says that it will also take advantage of the SAS Financial Management software suite to enhance its financial reporting activities. Macys.com is a division of Federated Department Stores.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Design software specialist aims to double revenue
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Design software specialist, Autodesk, is expected to double its revenues - reaching the $2bn-a-year mark - in just two years, With seven million users, the company supplies software for the building, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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New threat hops onto spam wagon
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While most commercially available products can handle the constant deluge of text-based spam in our e-mail boxes, a newer threat, image spam, is forcing companies to take a different approach to avoiding what has become the number one problem for corporate communication systems.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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T-Mobile USA picks Nokia, Ericsson for 3G
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
T-Mobile USA is moving into third-generation (3G) mobile services with Nokia and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson as major equipment suppliers.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Lenovo targets business users with widescreen notebook
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Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Making an effort to compete with Dell for business users, Lenovo has launched a widescreen version of its ThinkPad line of notebook PCs.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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Motorola and MTS sign contract to improve network performance
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Mobile Telesystems (MTS), the largest mobile operator in Russia and CIS, has awarded an equipment upgrade and services contract to Motorola, aiming to improve the quality, capacity and performance of its Moscow macro region network, MTS' largest geographic region.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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McAfee solutions 'provide protection to identify and block potential new attacks'
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McAfee says that it has provided coverage for 13 security vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft.
[Issue:Two hundred and fourteen (27/11/06 - 1/12/06)]
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IBM leads blade server revenue for tenth straight quarter
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Gartner has announced that IBM is the leader in worldwide server revenue, increasing its share of global server revenue to 33,7% in the third quarter of 2006, from 32,7% in third quarter of the previous year.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Worldwide mobile phone sales grew by 21,5% in Q3 - Gartner
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Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 251m units in the third quarter of 2006, a 21,5% increase from the same period last year, according to Gartner.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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FNB debuts cellphone banking in Botswana
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First National Bank (FNB) will launch cellphone banking in Botswana tomorrow, and bold plans are under way to introduce cellphone banking in some neighbouring African countries.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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ITEC in OEM agreement with Konica Minolta Japan
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Konica Minolta Business Technologies of Tokyo and ITEC SA have officially concluded an agreement to supply the full range of multi-functional products (MFP copier /printing product), manufactured by Konica Minolta Business Technologies to the SA market under the ITEC brand.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Webroot launches channel edge partner portal in EMEA
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Webroot Software, a provider of anti-spyware software and other security technologies for the enterprise and consumer markets, has announced its EMEA channel edge partner portal.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Service offers health advice via SMS
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A service called Health-SMS, recently launched in the UK, aims to utilise the power and popularity of SMS text messaging to help raise awareness and understanding of health issues amongst the general public.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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DTRA selects Spescom software
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The United States Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has selected the eB product from Spescom's US operation, Spescom Software.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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PandaLabs detects new wave of Spamta worms
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PandaLabs has detected seven new variants of Spamta in circulation over the last few days. This new wave of worms comes just one month after the previous one, in which the creators of this threat released as many as 67 variants. It is not unlikely that new variants of this worm will appear over the next few weeks.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Toshiba to sell 8GB high-speed SD card in January
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Toshiba plans to start selling an 8GB high-speed Secure Digital (SD) memory card.
[Issue:Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)]
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Avaya acquires Traverse Networks
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Avaya, a global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, has acquired Traverse Networks, a privately held developer of enterprise mobility solutions for unified communications.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Oracle launches Lean Leaders' Circle
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Oracle, in collaboration with Cardiff Business School's Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), has announced the launch of the Oracle Lean Leaders' Circle, a European network formed to explore the opportunities, drivers and challenges of aligning IT and lean enterprise management methodologies.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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NAHCO uses APC
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Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, (NAHCO) one of the three agencies involved in ground handling for airlines operations in Nigeria and the nation's airports has upgraded its power protection system by acquiring an American Power Conversion (APC) 16KVA Syrmmetra LX Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help webmasters
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Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
Strange bedfellows Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Symantec Phish Report Network opens to consumers worldwide
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Symantec has announced the opening of the Symantec Phish Report Network, which aims to allow member companies to contribute and receive fraudulent Web site addresses that they can use in their anti-phishing solutions to help to protect users from online fraud.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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CFCU selects SAS to combat money laundering
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Coastal Federal Credit Union (CFCU) has selected SAS Money Laundering Detection to help fortify its anti-money laundering (AML) programme and adhere to the regulations of the US Patriot Act.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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EMC launches latest version of Rainfinity
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EMC has announced version 7.0 of the Rainfinity global file virtualisation solution, aiming to extend EMC's capabilities in file virtualisation and management to support enterprise archiving from heterogeneous file and network attached storage (NAS) systems to the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Microsoft to add 802.1x support to NAP client for XP
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John Fontana, Network World (US)
Microsoft has confirmed that it will add to Windows XP an 802.1x client for its Network Access Protection security infrastructure, according to the manager working on the technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Heathrow Express gets Wi-Fi
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PC Advisor staff, PC Advisor (UK)
Wi-Fi access is pretty much a given at UK airport lounges, but T-Mobile plans to encourage users to log-on before they check in, by enabling hotspot access on all Heathrow Express trains.
[Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
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Spam aims to manipulate voters
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PandaLabs has detected e-mail messages which, claiming to inform users about an attack on online banking, advises them to visit a security Web page. However, the content on this page is directed at criticising the political situation in the USA.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Number of phishing e-mails has almost doubled in two years - Gartner
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The number of US adults that are sure or think that they have received phishing e-mails has nearly doubled since 2004, according to a survey by Gartner. Financial losses stemming from phishing attacks have risen to more than $2,8bn in 2006.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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EMC to acquire Avamar Technologies
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EMC has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Avamar Technologies, a provider of enterprise-class data protection software featuring data de-duplication technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Lenovo reports slimmer profit as sales rise
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Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Singapore Bureau)
Lenovo has reported a slimmer profit for the first half of its fiscal year, despite a rise in sales during the period.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Wikipedia hijacked by malware
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Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com
Malware writers have used a Wikipedia article and special storage features to attempt to plant malicious code on unsuspecting users' systems, the online encyclopaedia's organisers have confirmed.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Linux advocates wary of Novell-Microsoft tie
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Novell investors may be cheering the Linux vendor's historic partnership with Microsoft, but Linux advocates had an entirely different reaction Thursday, expressing concerns that the deal may hint at future patent lawsuits and possibly even violate Linux' software licence.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Avaya introduces 3rd-generation DEM interface
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Avaya, a global provider of business applications, systems and services, has introduced its third-generation directory enabled management (DEM) interface, a building block that is said to connect enterprise business applications intelligently with IP telephony software, messaging systems and media servers.
[Issue:Two hundred and eleven (6/11/06 - 10/11/06)]
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Gartner launches 'program & portfolio management' offering
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Gartner has announced the latest offering within the Gartner for IT Leaders product suite called 'Program and Portfolio Management'.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Oracle to acquire Stellent for $440m
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
Oracle has continued its string of acquisitions, announcing that it will buy content management software company Stellent for about $440m.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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HP completes VoodooPC acquisition
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HP has completed its acquisition of VoodooPC, a high-end gaming PC provider located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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New alliance puts crosshairs on spam
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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Spam faces a new foe with the formation of an international group to exchange tactics and legal information.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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PIC Solutions provides risk management support
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Amex (Saudi Arabia), based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has signed an annual RiskMentor contract with PIC Solutions to cover specialist credit risk services for the next twelve months.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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AMD asks court to consider Intel's worldwide activities
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Peter Sayer, IDG News Service (Paris Bureau)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has asked a US court to compel Intel to disclose documents relating to its activities outside the US, as part of an ongoing anti-trust lawsuit.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Seagate tries again with encrypted drive
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Beginning early next year, Seagate Technology LLC will begin shipping its first widely available hard drives with built-in encryption.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Belkin adapters to be replaced
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Belkin has identified a potential issue associated with the Universal AC Travel Adapters (Belkin part code F8E449ea). Although the adapters do not pose any risk if used correctly, Belkin has voluntarily started to recall them.
[Issue:Two hundred and ten (30/10/06 - 3/11/06)]
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Batteries, PS3 push Sony to Q2 operating loss
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
The global recall and replacement of millions of laptop batteries, and start-up costs for the PlayStation 3 console, pushed Sony's operations into the red for the July to September quarter, despite a jump in sales.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Plattner backs Open Source Forum
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John Blau, IDG News Service (Dusseldorf Bureau)
Hasso Plattner, the billionaire co-founder of business software maker, SAP AG, has teamed with IBM and Deutsche Telekom AG to host a forum aimed at giving open source software entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their business ideas to venture capitalists and other IT experts.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Comodo and Globaltrust Italia S.p.a. form partnership
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Comodo, a global certification authority and provider of identity and trust assurance management solutions, and GlobalTrust Italia S.p.a. have entered into a partnership aiming to enable GlobalTrust to offer ID protection for the highly demanding needs of large and complex financial institutions.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Briz.R Trojan controls computers to commit fraud
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PandaLabs has detected the appearance of the Briz.R Trojan, which allows an attacker to gain remote control of affected computers and redirect users to spoofed Web pages designed to steal confidential data.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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AMD promotes era of choice
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At Oracle OpenWorld yesterday, AMD chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz, delivered the opening day keynote address, discussing how the IT industry has entered a new era of choice, and the impacts that will result from this industry phenomenon.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Vista security discussions off to bad start
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Security vendors looking to gain insight into Microsoft's plans for opening up the Vista operating system kernel were frustrated yesterday morning when a technical glitch kept many from joining the first online discussion of this issue.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Oracle buys MetaSolv Software
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Oracle has agreed to acquire MetaSolv Software, a provider of service fulfilment operations support system (OSS) solutions for the communications and media industry, through a cash merger for $4,10 per share, or approximately $219,2m.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Systemtech 'saves time and money thanks to APC'
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Systemtech Services, a Nigerian IT firm, says that it has maintained uptime and protected its PCs and network equipment against potential power problems, through the use of American Power Conversion (APC) Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPSes).
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Softline ACCPAC and AccTech Systems dig deep for CAMEC
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Central African Mining and Exploration Company (CAMEC) recently awarded Softline ACCPAC and its premier business partner, AccTech Systems, a R2,5m contract for its Accpac for Mining solution.
[Issue:Two hundred and nine (23/10/06 - 27/10/06)]
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Gateway brings home location register technology to Africa
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Gateway Communications says that it will become the first African satellite connectivity provider to integrate its network with the Home and Visitor Location Registers (HLR & VLR) of its customers.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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AMD powers 2006 World Cyber Games
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AMD has announced it will be the Premier Sponsor of the World Cyber Games (WCG), the world's largest computer and video game festival, which will be held for the first time in Europe at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Italy.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Ericsson to provide a glimpse of the future at show
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Ericsson has announced that it will be exhibiting and presenting at GSM>3G Africa from October 19 - 20. The event will take place at the Cape Town Convention Centre and will comprise a high-level conference programme and networking exhibition.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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EWT uses GoldMine to communicate with members
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The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), which focuses on conserving threatened species and ecosystems in southern Africa, uses the customer relationship management (CRM) solution, GoldMine, from FrontRange Solutions to stay in constant contact with its more than 5 000 members.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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Ballmer: Microsoft pushing for simplicity
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Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld (US)
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, says that the software vendor plans to give all of its applications an 'Internet-style simplicity' as part of a move to offer them in hosted environments to corporate users.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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SAP to give developers easier access to NetWeaver
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China Martens, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
SAP AG plans to make it simpler for developers to work with NetWeaver in a bid to expand the appeal of the integration platform, which is central to recent versions of the vendor's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
[Issue:Two hundred and eight (16/10/06 - 20/10/06)]
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AMD's proposed acquisition of ATI receives Canadian approval
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Advanced Micro Devices, (AMD) and ATI Technologies (ATI) have announced that the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD has been approved by the Minister of Industry under the Investment Canada Act, satisfying one of the conditions to the closing of the acquisition.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Fujitsu to offer flash-disk option with laptops
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Fujitsu will soon join two other major PC makers in putting on sale a portable computer that uses flash memory in place of the traditional hard-disk drive.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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European businesses weighed down by security labyrinth
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McAfee has announced findings from new research which reveals that a desire for easier management of IT security is being undermined by complex security purchasing strategies.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Nokia expands channel for new enterprise products
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Nokia is enlisting systems integrators and value-added resellers in its drive to deliver more complete mobile systems to enterprises.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Ericsson's high-performance broadband named best access technology
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Ericsson's High-Performance EDA (VDSL2) solution has been named as 2006's best access technology by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) at Broadband World Forum 2006.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Webroot and Sophos join forces to combat Internet security threats
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Webroot Software, a provider of anti-spyware software for consumers, and Sophos, whose solutions aim to protect businesses against viruses, spyware and spam, have announced a technology partnership that intends to bring to market a new standard of protection against the most dangerous Internet security threats.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Integr8 IT extends its business frontier in Africa
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Integr8 IT, a local network integration and infrastructure management specialist, has completed the roll-out of Computer Associates technology as part of a Disaster Recovery Project initiated by the Botswana Export Development Investment Authority (BEDIA).
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Supercomputer users plan fast quad adoption
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Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld (US)
Users of high-performance computers are already making plans for x86-based, quad-core processors due from Intel next month and from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) by mid-2007.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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Nortel claims a fatter WiMax pipe
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Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
With some vendors and service providers looking to WiMax as the next big acceleration in wireless, Nortel Networks says it has a supercharged version of that system.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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MTN, Ericsson and GSMA to use biofuels to expand mobile coverage
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The MTN Group, the GSM Association and Ericsson have teamed up to establish biofuels as an alternative source of power for wireless networks in the developing world.
[Issue:Two hundred and seven (9/10/06 - 13/10/06)]
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IBM announces service management offerings
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
IBM is introducing a range of products and services, many based on technologies coming from recently acquired companies, aimed at helping businesses better manage and take advantage of their various software and hardware systems.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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IBM iSystem users launch online community
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Common, the world's largest group of users involved with IBM's premier business computers, has announced a new online System i community in collaboration with users, students and partners.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Windows Vista, Longhorn to get new anti-piracy measures
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Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
Microsoft will introduce a new system for fighting software piracy with its upcoming Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server operating systems, the company says.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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AMD's acquisition of ATI receives clearance
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ATI Technologies have announced that the Fair Trade Commission of Taiwan has cleared the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Nokia develops short-range wireless technology
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Nokia has developed a short-range wireless technology which, it says, could improve on some of the shortcomings of Bluetooth.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Sun says OpenSparc is gaining traction
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Sun Microsystems says its UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Fujitsu details Sony battery exchange plans
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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Fujitsu will offer owners of some of its laptop computers replacement batteries, as part of Sony's global battery exchange programme.
[Issue:Two hundred and six (2/10/06 - 6/10/06)]
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Intel pursues Moore's law 'to improve performance and lower costs'
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During his keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice-president and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group, outlined the next stage of the company's multi-core product roadmap and industry initiatives that aim offer developers a design platform for innovation and capabilities for businesses.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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BlackBerry tops 6m users, but trouble may lie ahead
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Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
The number of BlackBerry account holders reached 6,2m at the beginning of September as Research In Motion Ltd. reported revenue up by 34% - but market researcher IDC said trouble may lie ahead for the company.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Google upgrades enterprise search device
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Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
Google has enhanced its enterprise search device, doubling its capacity and adding new query capabilities.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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AMD opens North American chip design centre
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AMD has announced the opening of an advanced microprocessor development facility in Fort Collins. Dubbed the 'Mile High Design Centre' (MHDC), the facility is the latest in AMD's international network of chip design hubs.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Foxconn partners with Sahara Computers
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Sahara Computers, in conjunction with Foxconn, a global manufacturer of IT motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage devices, workstations and servers infrastructure, is to market a range of motherboards featuring AMD AM2TM technology.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Lifebridge Health prescribes EMC information infrastructure
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EMC has announced that healthcare provider LifeBridge Health has deployed an EMC information infrastructure to support its back-up, archive and recovery strategies, and drive its paperless initiative for cost-efficient patient care and streamlined IT administration in a continuously growing 24 x 7 environment.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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Oracle to support Itanium platform
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Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Oracle says that it will soon begin certification of its database software to run on Itanium 2 computing processor platforms.
[Issue:Two hundred and five (26/9/06 - 29/9/06)]
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McAfee reports on adware and spyware growth
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McAfee has announced the availability of a paper from McAfee Avert Labs entitled: "Adware and spyware: Unravelling the financial web." The paper, which highlights the financial incentives fuelling the rise of adware and spyware, the prevalence of adware and spyware, and culprits behind the problem, is available at: http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp.
[Issue:Two hundred and four (18/9/06 - 22/9/06)]
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snom and Epygi announce interoperability
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snom technology AG, a developer and manufacturer of VoIP telephones, has announced a strategic partnership with Epygi Technologies, a worldwide supplier of VoIP IP PBX technology. As a result of this partnership, snom phones will be compatible with Epygi IP PBX systems in order to support advanced services using XML to make combined products easier to deploy, the companies say.
[Issue:Two hundred and four (18/9/06 - 22/9/06)]
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AMD pioneers interactive online resource
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AMD has unveiled the AMD Virtual IT Experience, an online event that offers a way to approach audiences seeking access to information about AMD and its partners. The AMD Virtual IT Experience is said to be an interactive, content-rich venue designed to help customers quickly locate information, tools and advice to combat IT problems and advance their business.
[Issue:Two hundred and three (11/9/06 - 15/9/06)]
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Professional PCs for superheroes!
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Just like Superman, IT administrators are normally invisible, but always arrive in the nick of time when things get hot. Aiming to make life easier for these corporate superheroes, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) says that it is introducing Esprimo professional PCs with Intel vPro technology to coincide with the Intel launch.
[Issue:Two hundred and three (11/9/06 - 15/9/06)]
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Datatec's Logicalis acquires US company
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Logicalis, Datatec Group's IT and networking systems integration company, has announced an acquisition that aims to enhance the company's position as a strategic IBM partner in the US market. Logicalis has acquired Computech Resources, an IBM Premier Business Partner and a $35m solution provider of IBM products and services, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
[Issue:Two hundred and three (11/9/06 - 15/9/06)]
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Industry testing begins of Windows Vista RC 1
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Following the release of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), Microsoft has announced plans to make RC1 available for broad customer and partner testing. The announcements signal a major step for the technology industry toward the final availability of Windows Vista, currently targeted for volume licence customers in November and general availability in January next year.
[Issue:Two hundred and two (4/9/06 - 8/9/06)]
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Intel continues 'summer of servers' push
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Intel has unveiled eight Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors designed for multi-processor servers. Previously codenamed 'Tulsa', the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 series aims to deliver on key requirements to support the demands of enterprise applications: top performance and reliability. The processor family also includes lower-power, 95 watt options that reduce associated energy costs, Intel says
[Issue:Two hundred and one (28/8/06 - 1/9/06)]
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Dell achieves global share of 19,3% in Q2
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Dell reported revenue of $14,1bn for the second quarter of fiscal year 2007, an increase of 5% year-over-year. Operating income was $605m, or 4,3% of revenue, which includes $119m of stock-based compensation. The company priced aggressively in a slower market, resulting in operating income which was lower than its May expectations on similar revenue. As a result, EPS for the quarter finished at 22 cents.
[Issue:Two hundred (21/8/06 - 25/8/06)]
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HP releases Q3 financial results
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HP today announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended 31 July, with net revenue of $21,9bn, representing growth of 5% year-over-year, or 6% when adjusted for the effects of currency. GAAP operating profit was $1,5bn and GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) were $0,48 per share, up from $0,03 in the prior year period. GAAP financial information for the third quarter 2005 reflects a tax adjustment resulting from HP's decision to repatriate $14,5bn in cash from foreign earnings.
[Issue:One hundred and ninety nine (14/8/06 - 18/8/06)]
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OpenOffice.org announces version 1.1.2 of Open Source suite
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The OpenOffice.org organisation has announced the immediate availability of the new 1.1.2 version of the Open Source office suite, codenamed Hakone. The organisation says the new version is initially available on the Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (Sparc and X86) platforms.
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Starbucks, DT launch Wi-Fi coffeehouse network
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Shayne Robinson
Starbucks, the USA coffee giant, is making its second attempt at launching wireless high-speed Internet connections to its coffee-drinking customers. Last year Starbucks joined forces with Mobile Star Network but Mobile Star pulled the plug shortly afterwards.
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