Desktop Management
Infoworld, 7/12/04: EDS virtualizes desktop services
Company takes 'hands-off' approach to desktop management
By Tom Sullivan July 12, 2004
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) this week will detail what it calls "hands-off automation" of desktop PC management.
The new offering, dubbed Agile Workplace Services, is designed to handle everything in the PC lifecycle from procurement to management and to reduce the costs of managing PCs, according to Kim Stevenson, vice president of the desktop and mobility group at EDS.
"We are trying to take the desktop management process and put governance across the spectrum, so at the IT manager level all the pieces are connected," Stevenson said.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 7/9/04: Microsoft looks to improve Office search tools
Third-party companies already offer some add-on search software
News Story by Reuters
Microsoft Corp. is working to include newer search technology in its Office family of applications, Group Vice President Jeff Raikes said yesterday.
The company, which is developing is own search technology to challenge No. 1 Web search provider Google Inc., is also working on ways to allow users to easily find information stored on hard drives, such as documents, e-mails and data files.
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Security
eWeek, 7/12/04: IT Admins Find Breaking Up with IE Hard to Do
By Dennis Fisher
July 12, 2004 Frustrated by the barrage of security problems surrounding Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, some enterprises are looking for ways to prevent employees from using the dominant browser and are casting about for alternatives.
But as they turn to removing the browser as a safeguarding measure, some are finding the task not so simple. In fact, doing so can trigger a cascade of negative consequences.
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Computerworld, 7/9/04: Microsoft to pitch security as 'competitive advantage'
It plans to push that message at its Worldwide Partner Conference
News Story by Joris Evers
Microsoft Corp. will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises.
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Bad PR Ideas
eWeek, 7/9/04: Daredevil Chipmaker Exec Crashes Stunt Plane
BOISE, Idaho (AP)—Micron Technology Chairman Steve Appleton was injured Thursday evening when his stunt plane crashed in the desert east of Boise, Ada County authorities said.
Appleton was flying with Micron employee Michael Duffy about 6:15 p.m. when the plane crashed south of the state prison complex.
Company officials said Duffy was photographing Appleton for an upcoming corporate presentation.
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Cool Stuff You Might Want But Don’t Need
Engadget, 7/12/04: The return of flower power
Nagoya firm Let’s Corporation (sounds like a Japlish exhortation to start your own company) has come up with a sort of organic counterpart to those fakey sound-activated dancing flowers that were popular for a minute or two a few years ago. Their patented Flower Speaker Amp uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send sweet musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flowers and leaves themselves.
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