Microsoft tightening security defaults in IE 7
Microsoft has detailed several changes in the way its upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7 browser will classify Web sites for security, aiming to reduce the likelihood that users will fall victim to malicious code.
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3Com's European HQ damaged in oil depot blast
3Com said Sunday that an explosion at an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, England damaged the headquarters of its regional operations for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The company said there were no injuries among its employees as a result of the blast.
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China surpasses U.S. as top IT goods supplier, OECD says
China surpassed the U.S. to become the world's No. 1 exporter of IT goods in 2004, according to a report released Monday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Storage software market up again in Q3, IDC says
Demand for storage software products continues to grow, with revenue up 10 percent in the third quarter, marking eight consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, according to data published Monday by IDC in its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Tracker.
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BellSouth, 8x8 team up on VoIP
BellSouth is now offering a residential VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service provided by 8x8, the companies said in a statement Friday.
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Salesforce.com to launch full production test bed
Hoping to capture more seats in the enterprise, Salesforce.com will introduce Salesforce Sandbox as part of its Winter 2006 release. Sandbox is a full parallel copy of a company's production environment to be used for testing, development, and end-user training.
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Product Previews
HP OpenView Offers New Vantage Point
Hewlett-Packard early next year will roll out several enhanced OpenView management products, including a new tool for creating dashboard views of IT and business services. The HP OpenView Dashboard 1.0 lets users create personalized views into applications and services. The dashboard shows the real-time health of a service with information based on events, performance, anti-virus, and security attacks. HP OpenView Business Process Insight 2.0 monitors and reports on business process health and predefined business process metrics. HP OpenView Service Desk 5.0, available now, gains a new reporting tool and a Webstart tool for quick deployment. The OpenView Dashboard 1.0 and OpenView Business Process Insight 2.0 will be available in the first quarter of 2006.
HP OpenView, Hewlett-Packard hp.com
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Microsoft ships Windows Server 2003 R2
A long-awaited interim update to the current version of Microsoft's Windows Server OS, called Windows Server 2003 R2, is finally ready.
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SAP brewing SOA, on-demand moves
SAP's near and short-term product road map, revealed last week, will follow the topical trends of on demand and SOA.
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Cisco eyes the application layer
Everyone seems to love the idea of an application-aware network that makes deploying and configuring middleware easier -- mainly because application and data integration remain the toughest work in IT. Cisco has made vague noises about smart networking equipment that would do just that ever since its AON (Application-Oriented Networking) initiative launch last June. Last week, at the company's Worldwide Analyst Conference, it cranked up the volume, introducing its SONA (Service-Oriented Network Architecture).
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