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Indias Mobile Subscribers to Touch 100M This Week
(By John Ribeiro)
Indias mobile telephone subscriber base is expected to touch 100 million in the coming week, according to Dayanidhi Maran, the countrys minister for communications and information technology.
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Microsoft discloses 5 critical security holes
(By Stephen Lawson)
Microsoft Corp. released eight security bulletins on its products, including five concerning vulnerabilities rated critical. The critical security holes affect versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, Exchange Server, MSN Messenger and Word. All of them could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system, according to Microsoft. Users should apply the newly released update immediately, the report advised.Microsoft rated the following problems as critical:
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Novell Users Eye Linux for Kernel Swap - Mixed OS offering prompts varied plans
(By Carol Sliwa)
Two weeks after Novell Inc. released software that lets users run its stack of computing services on either the NetWare or Linux kernel, members of the NetWare faithful cited widely varying plans for migrating their servers to Linux.
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IBM Debuts Light Laptop
(By Ed Scannell)
IBM announced what company officials said is its lightest portable notebook that features the companys built-in fingerprint reader, along with new software that carries out a complete hardware check to ensure the system is working at peak performance.
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THE VENDOR SCENE: Giants in Jeopardy
(By Gary H. Anthes)
It would be foolhardy to underestimate the staying power of companies like Microsoft, but smaller, more agile players pose a serious threat.
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Adobe Set to Announce Creative Suite Update
(By Joris Evers)
Adobe Systems Inc. is readying the second version of its Creative Suite bundle of professional graphics software applications, the current version of which includes Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
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Dell Releases its Lightest Laptop to Date
(By Tom Krazit)
Dell Inc. updated its lineup of business notebooks with a 2.5-pound (1.13 kilogram) laptop designed for executives making last-minute changes to presentations on airplanes.
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Xdrive Launches Wireless Access to Online Storage
(By Ephraim Schwartz)
Online storage company Xdrive Inc. launched this week a new service that gives subscribers wireless access to their files stored on the Xdrive site.
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Telenor, ARINC Unveil New In-Cabin Mobile Cellular Service
ANNAPOLIS, Md. & OSLO, NorwayBuilding on continued successful development of their in-flight mobile phone solution, ARINC Incorporated and Telenor jointly unveiled AeroMobile (TM), the service that will soon make cellular calling a reality for passenger airlines.
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Computer Associates Starts Business Activity in Pakistan
Karachi, 6 April 2005: Computer Associates, one of the worlds leading management software companies, with presence in more than 100 countries plans to be more active in Pakistan.
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ZRG to Provide Call Center Solutions to Dubai Company
Serco Gulf, a subsidiary of Serco Group a leading UK based facilities management and outsourcing company has selected ZRG to provide next generation advance telephone communication systems (Call Center Solution) which will be used to handle Sercos growing business and to provide high quality personalized customer services to the customers in the Gulf region.
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Google to Increase Gmails Inbox to 2G Bytes
(By Juan Carlos Perez)
Google Inc. plans to increase the in-box storage of its Gmail Web mail service from 1G byte to 2G bytes, and it will continue to raise that ceiling in coming weeks and months, on a rolling basis, to unspecified heights, according to a Google executive.
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Microsoft Gets More Facts for Anti-Linux Campaign
(By Joris Evers)
Microsoft is expanding its Get the Facts campaign against Linux by talking about the reliability of Windows versus Linux systems, a company executive said, the day the Open Source Business Conference kicked off in San Francisco.
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New Bugs Found in Outlook, Internet Explorer
Microsoft Corp. is investigating a new set of potentially serious security flaws in Internet Explorer and Outlook reported by security company eEye Digital Security Inc., the software maker said.
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HP Turns to Linux for Enterprise NAS
(By Robert McMillan)
Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) is readying a new enterprise-quality NAS (network attached storage) device that will be based on the Linux operating system and managed using the companys StorageWorks Grid architecture, according to an HP executive.
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How to Sponsor A Project
(By MICHAEL H. HUGOS)
Heres a crash course for your business sponsor in what he needs to know about your IT project.
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