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SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES EXPANDS WIRELESS PORTFOLIO WITH NEW CLIENT BRIDGE FOR DEVICE MOBILITY

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New High-Performance and Secure CB3000 Client Bridge Helps Extend Mobility.

Windowsa must have or a manufacturers ploy to make end users upgrade unnecessarily?

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Is DOS dead? Tim Ames, managing director, Ryzex Europe, explodes the myth.

Manufacturers change route to market

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The last few years saw a rationalisation in the route-to-market by most of the big AIDC manufacturers in that they reduced the number of direct relationships with resellers to a much lower level than before. This has addressed an imbalance that was generally referred to as the 80:20 rule, where 20 per cent of resellers were responsible for 80 per cent of revenue.

Counting the total cost of ownership

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When making IT investments it is easy to calculate the purchase price of the hardware and any license fees, but basing a purchase decision on this alone can quickly prove a false economy. When evaluating a mobile workforce automation project, conducting a complete total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis will show the hidden costs inherent in selecting a low-cost, non-enterprise class device.

IT protection money: Cost per user has gone far enough!

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In the IT security sector, every new threat has seen new solutions emerge. Massive take up on products to protect networks has confirmed that the marketplace recognises these threats and will invest in network protection even at the expense of other IT projects. Individual solutions to address spam, web filtering, spyware, viruses and IM virtually all adopted "cost per user" models.

NEXSAN SUPERCHARGES SERIAL ATA STORAGE WITH INTRODUCTION OF SATABOY

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Delivers worlds fastest SATA storage solution.

nCipher gives 10 good reasons why cryptography will be the foundation of next generation security

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data-centric protection and mutual strong authentication of users and devices take centre stage.

29 - 30 August 2005 -- Mobitex conference to showcase real-world, mission-critical communications applications

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Members of the Mobitex Association will meet at its annual International Business and Networking Conference in New York City, USA, from the 29th to 30th August 2005. The conference will discuss the expanding application of this high reliability, narrow band, wireless data technology to mission critical communications.

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