Desktop Computing
Infoworld, 10/22/03: Linux on the desktop: On the way, slowly
No single blow will topple Windows giant
The adoption of Linux on the desktop is progressing, but there won't be a "David and Goliath" single blow that suddenly slays the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Linux advocates said at an enterprise Linux conference Wednesday.
Instead, Linux vendors and others advocating Linux on the desktop should pick their battles, they said.
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Utility Computing
eWeek, 10/22/03: IBM Giving Businesses Utility Computing Help
By Jeffrey Burt
As Dev Mukherjee spoke with IT administrators at the Gartner Symposium this week in Orlando, Fla., about utility computing initiatives being proposed by various OEMs, he kept hearing that the goals make sense, but that they were unsure where to begin.
As luck would have it, Mukherjee said, IBM on Thursday is unveiling Infrastructure Management Assessment Services to help enterprises with that very problem.
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Security
Comuterworld, 10/22/03: Security vendors offer centrally managed products
Story by Scott Tyler Shafer
OCTOBER 22, 2003 ( INFOWORLD ) - Security vendors are gearing up to offer centrally managed products to enterprise customers, who are increasingly eschewing the stand-alone approach.
At separate events for their respective customers and partners, Network Associates Inc. and Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) have outlined strategies and product road maps that consolidate many security functions -- such as anti-virus protection, intrusion detection, and firewalls -- into single products.
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The New York Times, 10/23/03: A Change of Habits to Elude Spam's Pall
By KATIE HAFNER
THERE was a time when e-mail was hailed as the killer app of the Internet, the medium that would change the way people communicate. E-mail would not simply liberate the world from telephone tag; it would flatten hierarchies, embolden the socially challenged, reshape human interaction.
But that was before spammers hijacked the world's In boxes. Now most e-mail users are inundated with unsolicited electronic junk mail; were future anthropologists to look through them, they might conclude that this was a civilization obsessed with reproductive anatomy, mortgage rates and prescription drugs.
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Microsoft
C|net, 10/22/03: Raising the XML flag
By David Becker
The last time Microsoft updated its Office productivity package, one of the company's most reliable moneymakers and one of its most mature and predictable products, the big news was the disappearance of Clippy, the animated helper customers loved to hate.
No such problem this time around. Tuesday's launch of the new Office System included a handful of new products and major changes to existing applications that are intended to position them as part of a broad platform for interacting with corporate data.
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Economy
The New York Times, 10/23/03: The Mixed Bag of Productivity
By HAL R. VARIAN
RECENTLY productivity has been growing at a rate of about 4 percent a year. For the country as a whole, this means that each year we can work as much as we did last year and consume 4 percent more; or we can consume as much as we did last year and work 4 percent less.
That's got to be a good thing, right?
Well, it depends on whom you ask. In truth, those productivity gains have resulted in some people's working 100 percent less, with the rest of us consuming 4.01 percent more. If you are one of the unemployed, chances are you are less enthusiastic about the productivity gains than are those who have enjoyed the increased consumption.
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Odd Computer Accessories
MobileMag, 10/22/03: Germ Crazy? New USB Device Filters Air
A new USB device developed by China's Xi'an High-tech Industrial Corporation is targeting computer users in a time of health uncertainty.
The air cleaner is designed to plug into any standard USB port for power. The device then uses an ionic corona discharge to decontaminate the surrounding air by ridding smoke, dust, germs and other dangerous particles.
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