Rivals pour scorn on Microsoft security tool

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News: Rivals pour scorn on Microsoft security tool
News: Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade
News: Comcast works on single comms dashboard with Zimbra
News: Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration
News: Nokia Siemens Networks to cut 9,000 jobs
News: Expands' speedier remote Notes
News: Sun to give away encryption key software
News: Microsoft-Yahoo: Not if but when, analysts say
ITwhirled: Homeless man's cigarette brings down Internet2



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Rivals pour scorn on Microsoft security tool
The technology in Microsoft’s new business security product, Forefront, is not up to scratch, rivals have warned.


Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade
Microsoft Corp. has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.


Comcast works on single comms dashboard with Zimbra
Comcast Corp. has turned to open-source software vendor Zimbra Inc. to help supply some of the technology behind the U.S. cable provider's upcoming free SmartZone communications dashboard for its broadband users.


Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration
Dell Inc. is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.


Nokia Siemens Networks to cut 9,000 jobs
Nokia Siemens Networks BV says it wants 5 billion people to enjoy the benefits of being connected by 2015, but in the meantime it will be disconnecting about 9,000 employees.


Expands' speedier remote Notes
Expand Networks has developed a Lotus-specific module for its WAN accelerators which it claimed can accelerate Notes and Domino applications by a factor of 10 or more. The company said it would allow Notes-using organizations to eliminate regional email servers and consolidate their Domino servers at HQ.


Sun to give away encryption key software
Sun is offering to give away its encryption key management software interface for nothing. Customers with devices that encrypt data will be able to interoperate with a Sun key management system freely.


Microsoft-Yahoo: Not if but when, analysts say
Reports that Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in talks over a possible acquisition or merger have come as anything but a surprise to analysts who question not if, but when, a deal will happen.


EC still convinced mobile roaming consensus is possible
Failure to agree on a law slashing the cost of using your mobile phone abroad this week hasn't dented the European Commission's optimism that the legislation will still be passed, it said Friday.


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Homeless man's cigarette brings down Internet2
The Internet2 network was knocked offline for days when a cigarette tossed off a bridge in Boston by a homeless man started a fire that ate through crucial cables. Even those not dependent on the experimental high-speed network were affected, as the Red Line subway was also brought to a halt.