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Nexans offers Cat.6A shielded connector
Nexans Cabling Solutions announced that its LANmark-6A shielded snap-in connector has successfully received Cat.6A component compliance certification. This product was certified by...
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Is a Google Netbook on the Horizon?
Reading today’s rumors of a Google netbook makes me wonder whether there is anything Google won’t do to make a buck. The...
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Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in Windows story?
Microsoft Windows 7 may represent the last ever, large in-mass upgrade of the Windows client environment and define the line where the...
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Unified communications making cosmetics firm look good
Kroma Makeup went from using plain old telephone service lines supplemented by cable Internet access to running all its voice, data and...
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Adobe won’t patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe won’t patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though attack code...
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EC, Microsoft browser deal wins praise
Microsoft’s successful settlement of its antitrust issues with the European Commission was welcomed by the software company’s foes and friends alike Wednesday,...
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Google’s Nexus One specs leaked
Even if Google employees have kept mum about Nexus One specifics, ROM hackers have been able to dig deep into the phone’s...
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Mozilla patches 10 security bugs with Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and...
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AMD’s lead with DirectX 11 is ‘insignificant,’ Nvidia says
Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support DirectX 11,...
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EU accepts Microsoft deal on browser choice
Microsoft’s promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its...
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Chrome Mac, Linux betas push browser into No. 3 spot
The release last week of betas of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux pushed the Google browser’s share past Apple’s Safari...
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Sybase is latest RDB maker to embrace MapReduce
Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database vendors and the upstarts touting the so-called ‘NoSQL’ technology? A slew...
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Avaya unified communications helps patients reach doctors by phone
Two years ago, patients calling Group Health Cooperative in Seattle for medical advice had zero chance of getting their questions answered on...
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Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer enough...
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Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications. "This afternoon,...