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BellSouth's WiMax offered as broadband backup
News Company will market its WiMax wireless service as a disaster-ready add-on to its regular broadband service.
Tags: WiMax
Hard to fix the Big Easy
Blogs I think it is disgraceful that a nation that spends US$275 million per day to rebuild Iraq cannot clean and paint a doze...
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery
Hurricane drives interest in online backups
News Online backup firms report a post-Katrina increase in sales--and data being moved to new servers away from the flood zone.
Tags: Database management, Business applications
Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows
News New Micro Focus tool promises to help companies move their Cobol-based business processes to Windows without having to rewrite applications.
Tags: Business applications, Mainframe, New Orleans, Tool, COBOL, Environment, Server, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows
First Microsoft retail stores to open this fall
News Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it is planning to open its first stores this fall, with at least some of the locations likely to be right near an Apple store.
Tags: Business applications, Personal applications, Apple Inc., New Orleans, Microsoft Windows 7, Redmond, retail company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Microsoft repackages its software licenses
News Company announces two ways for small and midsize business to pay for application and server software usage, which aims to save customers up to 40 percent.
Tags: Software licensing, Software, New Orleans, software license, Environment, Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IT Governance, IT investment
US charges Brazilian with operating botnet
News U.S. grand jury indictment alleges Brazilian man had role in botnet made up of more than 100,000 infected computers designed to send spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Network security, FBI, New Orleans, U.S. Department Of Justice, Computer, software, denial of service, network, U.S.
Windows app store extended to existing models
News Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be made available to users of versions 6.0 and 6.1 of mobile operating system, rather than just to users of upcoming version 6.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile, Conference, New Orleans, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., handset, Mobile applications
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
Memories of Katrina flood back
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New Orleans to offer free Wi-Fi
Techguide The Big Easy plans to offer free wireless Internet access to its citizens after the devastating hurricane season.
Tags: Networking, Mobile/Wireless, 802.11/Wi-Fi
Hurricane drives interest in online backups
Techguide In Hurricane Katrina's watery aftermath, companies that provide online file-backup services are reporting a sharp increase in business.
Tags: Hardware, Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery
CIA: Cyberattack caused multi-city blackout
News The CIA has warned of successful attacks against various countries' critical national infrastructures.
Tags: Security
Is Oracle wooing Clinton?
News The buzz surrounding Bill Clinton's keynote speech at an Oracle convention next Monday suggests that the software company is courting the former president to join its board of directors.
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