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Silicon Valley Business Ink, 5/28/03: CenterBeam Announces RIM / GoodLink and Pocket PC Phone Mobile Services
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, CenterBeam announced it has expanded its suite of mobile services to include RIM/GoodLink and Pocket PC Phone devices. For CenterBeam customers, these devices can be seamlessly and inexpensively integrated to deliver anytime, anywhere access to critical business information. These new services cost $45 per user to provision and $15 per user per month thereafter.
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ZDNet, 5/28/03: Microsoft XP security update flawed
Microsoft said Tuesday it has withdrawn a security update for Windows XP after discovering that it switched off Internet connections for some of the 600,000 users who downloaded and installed it.
The update, a small software addition that is used to fix and add features to existing software programs, was originally aimed at improving the security of Internet connections.
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Computerworld, 5/27/03: Companies partner to stop PC theft
Software could disable stolen computers
By LINDA ROSENCRANCE
Phoenix Technologies Ltd. and Softex Inc. have teamed to offer antitheft software for computers. The software, called TheftGuard, is designed to disable any stolen desktop or laptop running a Windows operating system, the companies said in a statement.
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PC World, 5/23/03: Trend Micro Eats Its 'P's
E-mail security software rejected all messages containing the sixteenth letter of the alphabet.
Paul Roberts
A recent update to Trend Micro's eManager e-mail security product did more than block spam e-mail--it took aim at the letter p, blocking all e-mail messages containing the popular consonant.
The p protection was the result of a bug accidentally introduced to eManager in an update to the product's antispam feature. Emanager Rule #915 was released on Tuesday and contained a flawed routine that blocked and quarantined both incoming and outgoing e-mail containing the letter p, according to Mike Sweeny, a spokesman for Trend Micro.
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ZDNet, 5/27/03: Microsoft: Longhorn goes to pieces
By Michael Kanellos
Microsoft is designing its ever-present Windows operating system to streamline and lower the cost of building and distributing the software.
The next major client version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will be designed as a series of components that Microsoft can easily combine and tailor for different markets and computing hardware, according to company executives. That's a break from the company's long-held strategy of building several similar, yet distinct, operating systems positioned for specific purposes and geographic areas.
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Peer Support
The Wall Street Journal, 5/28/03: Unofficial Techies Fix Gizmos When Office Help Desks Don't
Whenever certain employees at a Kalamazoo, Mich., credit union are tormented by a computer-printer-fax-copier problem, they give their colleague Dennis Christensen a call. Never mind that his real job is marketing and facilities management. As many as 20 times a week, his phone rings with another request to extract some hyperventilating, bruised soul from the technological thickets.
It isn't easy being the office geek, particularly when you're just a civilian guru, an unauthorized nonmember of the company's technical team.
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IM’ing Emily Post
The Wall Street Journal, To Fight E-Mail Oversharing, Firms Try New Rules, Software
By JEFFREY ZASLOW
"CC" is fast becoming the most dangerous letter combination in the business world.
Scott Stratten recalls the day the president of his company e-mailed 70 employees about a planned meeting. They all began giving him their comments using the "reply to all" button. As the e-mails flew, cc'd to everyone, a vice president asked the president: "How's the prostate?"
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The New York Times, 5/26/03: Hunt for Etiquette Among Unwired
By MATT RICHTEL
About 200 top telecommunications executives and analysts met last week in Dana Point, Calif., at the Vortex Conference, so named to reflect the supposed convergence of communications technologies. In the future, organizers may want to rename it the Anarchists Conference.
While speakers and panelists made their presentations on stage during the two-day affair, outside Los Angeles, many of the audience members were, quite glaringly, doing their own thing. Armed with laptop computers equipped with wireless Internet connections, many executives had only one ear on the speakers but both hands on the keyboard, checking e-mail and stock prices, surfing the Internet and otherwise whiling away their time wirelessly.
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