CenterBeam
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 11/14/02: Do you crave a computer with style as well as raw horsepower this Christmas?
By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn.
Think Sony VAIO. Think Apple Macintosh.
Think... Best Buy?
That's the reaction Sheldon Laube says he gets when he shows off his 200A5 laptop, a high-end Windows machine that Best Buy sells as part of its vpr Matrix line of portable and desktop PCs.
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Outsourcing
Gartner, 11/12/02: The Outsourcing Market Could Be Heading for a Downturn
Unless enterprises and external service providers move away from traditional outsourcing deals that are focused purely on cost reduction, there is a danger of a market downturn, causing harm to enterprises and ESPs.
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Gartner, 11/14/02: ESPs Will Resist the Push for Cost-Reduction-Only Deals
Cost reduction will remain enterprises' main driver for outsourcing in 2003, but external service providers will be unwilling to erode margins further. Conflicts may arise that harm sourcing relationships and frustrate both sides.
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Service Management
Meta, 11/17/02: Service-Level Agreements: A Framework, Template, and Implementation Toolkit
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Wireless
Computerworld, 11/18/02: Glitch Opens T-Mobile User to Hacker Probes
Unsolicited traffic raises cost issues
By BOB BREWIN
Mike Palmer, technology director at The Associated Press news agency's broadcast division, learned a lesson this month: Mobile wireless data services need to be carefully monitored for hacker probes that could create security risks as well as cost issues.
Palmer works in Washington for New York-based AP. He said he discovered 25 probes from hackers when he checked inbound traffic to a laptop PC that's used to send video and text files over T-Mobile USA Inc.'s General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) mobile data network.
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PC Industry
ZDNet, 11/15/02: Three-year PC upgrade cycle is history
By John G. Spooner
The three-year upgrade cycle for PCs is increasingly becoming a myth, according to market researcher Gartner.
In a new report, Gartner concludes there will be mostly coal in PC makers' stockings for the fourth quarter because consumers and businesses are squeezing more out of their old computers.
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