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Samsung to replace Intel with AMD in Origami PC :
June 06, 2006 :Samsung Electronics America Inc. plans to change the processor in its Q1 Ultra Mobile PC, replacing a chip from Intel Corp. with one from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), according to a published account.Samsung has seen ....
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Microsoft shares tech wealth with startups
June 06, 2006 :Microsoft Corp. offered technologies that it developed to two more European companies, as part of its push to help accelerate innovation among startup companies, the software giant said on Monday....
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Intel marks start of its AMD offensive :
June 06, 2006 : Intel launched a new chip set for desktop computers on Tuesday and vowed to take back market share lost to its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, by the end of the year.
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AOL users: You've got e-mail ads :
June 06, 2006 :For the first time in its history, AOL is displaying ads along with e-mail messages to its paying subscribers, to increase the delivery mechanisms of its online ad inventory, an AOL spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.This practice is common in free Webmail services but generally ...
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Google to launch Web-based spreadsheet:
June 06, 2006 :Google plans to launch a Web-based spreadsheet program on Tuesday, as it continues building a collection of office productivity applications to compete with Microsoft, according to published reports.Google representatives could not be reached for comment...
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Personal info on active-duty personnel included in stolen VA data :
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- The names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of some 50,000 active-duty military personnel were included in the data on 26.5 million U.S. veterans stolen from the residence of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee, exposing them to possible identity theft, the department announced Saturday.
Several veterans' groups announced today that they have filed a lawsuit against the VA for failing to protect their personal information.
In its efforts to better learn just what information was contained in a duplicate database stolen from the VA employee last month, the VA said it had hired its own independent forensic experts to analyze the original data, Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson said in the statement (see "Personal data on millions of U.S. veterans stolen").
The VA said it has not received any reports that the stolen data has been used for fraudulent purposes.
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Microsoft's Antigen security tools to be released July 1 :
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Following last week's release of its OneCare antivirus products for consumers and small businesses, Microsoft Corp. today announced its Antigen security products for enterprise customers.
The products are based on technology that Microsoft acquired in its February 2005 purchase of Sybari Software Inc. and include Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways and Antigen Spam Manager. Also announced today were the Antigen Enterprise Manager technology and a Messaging Security Suite that combines antivirus, antispam and content filtering functionality for Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 e-mail servers and SMTP gateways.
Beta versions of the antivirus and antispam products have been available for free download for over a year. So far, more than 200,000 customers have done so, according to Microsoft. What the company announced today is the formal general availability of the software for purchase through volume licensing programs starting July 1, 2006.
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Collaboration options drive Web-based alternatives to Office:
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Google Inc.'s test release today of an online spreadsheet application is the highest-profile challenge yet to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Office software franchise. But it's hardly the first.
While higher-profile Web players such as Yahoo Inc., Ask.com and even Microsoft sit on the sidelines, a wave of mostly West-Coast-based start-up companies are feverishly putting out Webified counterparts to Microsoft Word, Excel and others.
For word processing, upstarts include AjaxWrite from San Diego-based Ajax13; gOffice from SilverOffice Inc. in Berkeley, Calif.; Zoho Writer from Pleasanton, Calif.-based AdventNet Inc.; iNetWord from Kirkland, Wash.-based iNetOffice Inc.; and Google's own offering, which arose from its acquisition of Writely in March.
For spreadsheets, Office alternatives include WikiCalc, created by spreadsheet pioneer and VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin; EditGrid from a Hong Kong-based company; irows.com; ajaxXLS from Ajax13; and Dabble DB, from a Vancouver, British Columbia-based start-up.
There are even online equivalents to PowerPoint, such as Thumbstacks.com, and an alternative to Microsoft's project management software: Project-On-Demand from San Mateo, Calif.-based Projity Inc.
Not only are the applications mostly free, but they let users easily collaborate and edit documents simultaneously, a key feature that historically has eluded Microsoft.
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IBM offers flu readiness service for companies:
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- IBM said today that it has started a service to assess a company's ability to cope with a pandemic flu outbreak and deal with widespread employee absenteeism and some of the other problems that might arise.
Brent Woodworth, global leader of IBM's Crisis Response Team, said IBM will review a company's existing disaster preparedness procedures and interview company officials to look for gaps in planning. As people become ill, are quarantined or decide to just stay home, companies will be forced to make do with fewer workers and deal with possible supply chain disruptions.
"What are your minimums for operating, and when do you shut down -- when are there things you can no longer do?" said Woodworth, explaining the kinds of issues IBM will study.
Although more companies are beginning to make pandemic plans, most aren't taking any specific steps, said Roberta Witty, an analyst at Gartner Inc. But she said that planning for pandemic is different from planning for the kind of disasters that companies typically prepare for.
Traditional business disaster planning "looks at facility outages, not people outages," said Witty. With that in mind, she recommends advance planning: "You are not going to make these decisions once your workforce is down 30%."
Key to coping is ensuring that management is flexible enough to make changes as circumstances shift.
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