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HP on Thursday began offering new Multi-Level Security (MLS) Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 The five support services are the first of their kind offered on the Linux operating system, according to Erik Lillestolen, government program manager for Open Source and Linux Organization at HP. The company made the announcement at the Red Hat Gov...
Consumers and small-office and home-office (SOHO) workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they reason However, when the initial warranty per...
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), a staple in enterprise settings, are starting to gather momentum as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the networks of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Smaller companies are finding VPNs cheaper to operate than more costly dedicated T1 phone lines SMB players have been slow to move...
Curl plans to release much of its code for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform to the open source community to enhance the development of Web 2.0 applications The company announced Monday the first step in its open source strategy -- the creation of a common repository of open source component libraries to support the rapid developmen...
Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from datacenter to desktop The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that leverages server, applications and desktop virtualiza...
The third version of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), released last summer, is on the slow road to acceptance. The new licensing conditions usher in numerous changes in how open source software developers regulate what users of their freely distributed programming code are legally able and unable to do The latest license option was...
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are common in enterprise settings as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the corporate network. VPNs extend a corporation's reach to support worldwide locations The same usefulness is gaining the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Smaller companies are finding VPNs cheaper...
Memo to small business owners: If you are spending a fortune on software to run your business, you'll be interested to know you may be able to get almost everything you need for free With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business software have lots ...
Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer Ipevo officials hope the stand-alone device will catch the fancy of users who shy away from computers. The always-on phone, however, requires a broadband Internet connection...
The worldwide open source community shares a common overall goal: better software through collaboration and peer review. It's difficult enough to achieve this task even when most of the participants share a common language. Building bridges between different parts of the world -- especially between Eastern and Western societies -- adds an entirely new element to the equation...
Channel partner opportunity management firm BlueRoads announced on Sept. 17 a new lead referral moduledesigned to help vendors gain strategic insight into the management of better sales channel yield. The newsoftware module captures new referrals from a vendor's extended partner community and harnesses previouslyuntapped sales opportunities This ne...
While many sectors of the business community are accepting Web 2.0 usage with open arms, enterprise IT departments are not prepared to deal with the consequences posed by related threats, according to recent research IT professionals also largely lack risk awareness, user training and consistent policies related to Web 2.0 threats, according to a s...
SpiralFrog.com, a free music download site that launched on Sept. 17, allows registered users to download more than 800,000 songs and videos. As long as downloaders keep renewing their free monthly site registration, they can continue to play the song and video files on their PC. Users can also copy the downloaded files to two other devices Downloa...
Two separate exploits involving the Apple QuickTime and the Microsoft Windows Media players could continue to plague computer users regardless of which Web browser is installed as the default on a computer system So far, the only browser developer to announce a patch for this vulnerability is Mozilla, which posteda patch to its open source Firefox ...
Computer security company FireEye announced on Monday a new strategy for fighting the worsening threat to consumers and businesses posed by botnets The company announced its new Botwall appliance, linked to a worldwide intelligence network coupled to local botnet analysis designed to thwart attacks....
What's a poor, lonely Linux developer to do? Where are all the good support sites? How am I going to fix that troublesome bug? These are questions that even novice code writers no longer have to ask. The classic view of a lonely, isolated programmer writing code for some obscure open source project in a back room is no longer an accurate view of th...
While bill payers and many businesses have been slow to adopt cyber billing, consumers are much moreaccepting of paying their monthly bills electronically. Still, consumers often face a struggle withmerchants who don't make e-payments a priority or the process of paying online easy to set up Acceptance of e-billing is not as favorable yet as it sho...
When a Web surfer clicks on an icon to launch his or her favorite Web browser, only the geekiest of the geeky pay any thought to which engine layout is at work. The typical Web user has no clue that a different browser choice may also include a different browser layout engine If anything, most Internet users concern themselves about which Web brows...
Lenovo introduced on Wednesday its newest energy-efficient desktop line with the ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor PC that combines a small footprint the size of a telephone book with 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron energy efficient processors The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percent less space than previous models and weighs eight ...
Weeks before hearing that Apple had cut the price of its iPhone, the gadget's first buyers were met with a different surprise: an AT&T phone bill that in some cases was almost the size of a Stephen King novel. The wireless carrier meticulously detailed every connection and every data exchange. Some customers received bills several hundred pages thick, delivered in cardboard boxes...
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