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eNews & Views

Dec. 20, 2006

I N T H I S I S S U E

News Analysis: Linux to Grow Gangbusters in 2007

News Analysis: On-Site in Moscow at Kaspersky's Round-the-Clock Virus Stomping

Blog: Coming in January: Month of Apple Bugs

News: Oracle Whips New Licensing Model Out of Its Shopping Bounty

News: 75% of Work Force Is Headed for the Door

News: BlackBerry Users: Your E-Mail Can Talk to You Now

News: Citrix Snags Embedded OS Provider Ardence

Reporter's Notebook: Cisco Smiles for the Video Camera

Blog: Get Your Trial! Office 2007 and More

News: Sony BMG Settles Case over Anti-piracy Software

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News Analysis: Linux to Grow Gangbusters in 2007

Next year will be a big one for Linux, with new platforms and opportunities in the data center. Expect Linux distributors to keep up a torrid pace of new releases. Red Hat's shipping RHEL 5 in January, and Novell's shipping an update to Open Enterprise Server early in 2007.

News: SUSE Co-Founder Returns to Novell

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News Analysis: On-Site in Moscow at Kaspersky's Round-the-Clock Virus Stomping

eWEEK sent Senior Editor Ryan Naraine to Kasperky's Moscow-based research facility for an in-depth look at how this vendor is banking on quick response times to hacks using a round-the-clock virus-hunting crew that's responsible for tracking computer threats in real time, writing and shipping virus definition updates to millions of computer users. The anti-virus market is shifting. See how.

Slide Show: Ryan Naraine's Kaspersky Lab Tour

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Blog: Coming in January: Month of Apple Bugs

The hacker behind the MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) plans to take a big bite out of Apple Computer's insecurities. The project will launch with a working exploit for a gaping code-execution hole in the QuickTime media player.

News: SEC Freezes Assets of Pump-and-Dump Schemer

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News: Oracle Whips New Licensing Model Out of Its Shopping Bounty

The IT giant is offering four new pricing models that it claims will help simplify the processes its customers use to select and buy its numerous--and many newly acquired-- enterprise applications. Oracle is trying to streamline the models it inherited during its nearly three-year shopping spree.

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News: 75% of Work Force Is Headed for the Door

Retention strategies, although gaining popularity, are not widespread enough to stop the tide of worker exits, according to a new poll. 2006 was big for losing workers, with a 12 percent voluntarily resignation rate.

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News: BlackBerry Users: Your E-Mail Can Talk to You Now

MobileVoiceControl's Narrator will allow BlackBerry Pearl smart-phone business users to have their e-mails read aloud to them while they are on the go. Users can choose between female and male voices.

News: Alltel Offers Palm Treo 700wx

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News: Citrix Snags Embedded OS Provider Ardence

Citrix plans to capitalize on Ardence's technology which allows desktops, laptops, servers and blades to boot off the network and deliver an operating system to a bare metal machine in real time. Ardence support for Windows Vista is due shortly.

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Reporter's Notebook: Cisco Smiles for the Video Camera

At its recent C-Scape analyst conference, Cisco opened the lid on new products it is developing to improve video technology, software and its VPN client. The end goal: to offer customers live video, video-on-demand and other types of rich media content that can be delivered to desktops or digital sign displays via IP.

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Blog: Get Your Trial! Office 2007 and More

Microsoft has so many free, try-before-you-buy trials, it can be a trial finding them all. We've collected links for you. Get your 2007 try-outs here.

Blog: Is Vista Ready for You?

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News: Sony BMG Settles Case over Anti-piracy Software

Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold by the record company. Sony is paying up to $175 in refunds per consumer in the case of demonstrably damaged PCs.

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News Analysis: Hammered by external threats, companies are demanding that their telecom carriers, ISPs and MSPs take more responsibility for protecting enterprise networks.

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