Collaborative Technologies
The New York Times, 10/20/04: Microsoft to Debut 'Istanbul' Application
Published: October 20, 2004
BOSTON (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. introduced on Tuesday a desktop computer application that aims to seamlessly integrate e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and Internet-based calling.
Microsoft plans to debut the product, code-named ``Istanbul,'' sometime in the first half of 2005. It will compete with efforts from rivals including IBM Corp. and smaller players such as Convoq Inc. to link together various channels of communications and promote their most effective use.
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Security
C|net, 10/20/04: Spyware spurs Dell to offer protective software
By Michael Kanellos
ROUND ROCK, Texas--With spyware problems now accounting for 20 percent of it support calls, Dell will start to bundle a security package on its PCs that will help inoculate users.
The bundle, coming in November, will combine a firewall, antivirus software and anti-spyware software, Mike George, the company's chief marketing officer, said in an interview at Dell's headquarters here. Dell will offer the bundle for free, but consumers will pay for continued subscriptions. George declined to identify the software vendor that will provide the software.
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eWeek, 10/20/04: Symantec Firewall Appliance Targets Midsize Firms
By Wayne Rash
Symantec Corp. will announce the next member of its gateway security series on Oct. 26. The Cupertino, Calif., security vendor's new Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series is designed to fit into organizations with 75 to 200 users that are part of a larger enterprise.
According to George Sluz, group product manager for entry-level appliances, the 400 series is targeted at enterprises with remote or branch offices.
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Real Estate
The Wall Street Journal, 10/20/04: What's Brewing in Real-Estate Market
By SHEILA MUTO
Ready to Move In
The amount of so-called plug-and-play space still available at office and research-and-development properties in the San Francisco Bay area continues to dwindle. But the space that remains still generates more than its fair share of leasing demand.
In the Silicon Valley, plug-and-play R&D space -- furnished and wired space that is typically a combination of office and manufacturing space and is popular among technology companies -- makes up less than one-third of the available space on the market for lease, according Jim Beeger, a senior vice president at real-estate brokerage firm Cornish & Carey Commercial/Oncor International. But it accounted for nearly half the 1.7 million square feet of total R&D space leased in the third quarter.
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