SMB
Internet.Com, 6/11/03: Cisco's 3-Pronged SMB Strategy
By Colin C. Haley
Cisco is boosting efforts to woo small and medium businesses (SMB) customers, believing they will start spending on technology before enterprises, CEO John Chambers said during a briefing with reporters and analysts yesterday.
"Technology levels playing field," said Chambers, explaining why customers in the market are investing faster than their larger counterparts.
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Security
Newsfactor, 6/11/03: Microsoft Enters Antivirus Market
James Maguire
Making its first foray into the antivirus software market, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) has agreed to acquire the technology assets of Romanian-based GeCAD Software. Microsoft cast its acquisition of the antivirus technology as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, the company's multi-pronged effort to improve security across its many software offerings.
The acquisition will help mitigate risks posed by virus and malicious-code writers, says Mike Nash, Microsoft's vice president of the Security Business Unit.
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Mobile
C|net, 6/11/03: Microsoft preps new handheld OS
By Richard Shim
Microsoft later this month will unveil the next version of its handheld operating system, as hardware partners new and old line up with devices using the OS.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will debut Pocket PC 2003--code-named Ozone--on June 23, according to sources close to the company. The operating system is not expected to be a major revision of Pocket PC 2002, but it will include new features such as built-in support for wireless technologies Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The OS overhaul will occur in the next version of the operating system, code-named Magneto, due out next year.
Microsoft representatives declined to comment.
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Wireless
The New York Times, 6/12/03: New Rules Expected on Faster Wi-Fi Equipment
By BARNABY J. FEDER
The leading standard-setting body for wireless communications equipment is expected to give final approval today to rules for designing gear in the Wi-Fi format that would operate at up to four times the speed of today's most popular Wi-Fi devices.
Equipment makers and industry analysts expect final approval of the standard to prompt a new wave of investment by computer companies in building and marketing wireless devices that can connect to the Internet whenever they are near a Wi-Fi base station.
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