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Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection RC Available RTM On Track for Q4

Microsoft announced the availability of its Forefront Endpoint Protection client security software release candidate. The product is slated to launch end of 2010. – The release candidate build of Microsofts Forefront Endpoint Protection client software is now available for download, the software giant said on Nov. 8.
Microsoft said the new client security product is on track to be released to manufacturing before the end of the year. Originally slated for the …


Microsoft Security Essentials, Forefront Software Betas Released

Microsoft has released the next editions of Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 in beta form to customers. – Microsoft released the beta versions of upcoming editions of Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010.
In Security Essentials, Microsoft has added several new features and enhancements, including integration with Internet Explorer to protect against Web threats as well …


Economist James Galbraith: Economists Should Move into the Background, and “Criminologists to the Forefront”

University of Texas economics professor James K. Galbraith previously said that fraud caused the financial crisis:
You had fraud in the origination of the mortgages, fraud in the underwriting, fraud in the ratings agencies. Senator Kaufman said la…

Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Makes DirectAccess Feasible

Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the enterprise networking shortcomings of DirectAccess, providing sorely needed performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility. UAG will also interoperate with third-party solutions to further extend the reach and scale of DirectAccess.
– Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the
shortcomings of the company’s new always-on remote connectivity solution,
DirectAccess, providing sorely needed measures of performance and availability
scaling, global management, and backward compatibility to help move
Dir…


Tablet PCs, 3D, Netbooks Will Be at Forefront of CES

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the equivalent of the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras for many tech companies, the moment when they roll out many of their latest or upcoming products to the public for the first time. From small IT startups to massive corporations such as Intel and Microsoft, seemingly every company has a presence at the event. Here, eWEEK picks out some of trends to expect among the gadgets and devices on display.
– When the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las
Vegas Jan. 7, technology companies large and small
will crowd into the Las Vegas Convention
Center and auxiliary sites to show off their
latest wares. With about 110,000 attendees and nearly 3,000 exhibitors, it’s
fair to say the three-day eve…


Mobile Net Neutrality Moves to Policy Forefront

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to expand and codify the FCC’s four network neutrality principles and, to the utter horror of wireless carriers, make them apply to the mobile Internet. It all adds up to one of the greatest policy battles at the FCC in years.
– The other shoe fell this week for mobile carriers when Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency would
consider extending network neutrality rules to the mobile Internet. The first shoe
fell when Barack Obama won the presidency.

Obama championed network neut…


IBM’s Proposed Acquisition of SPSS Puts Oracle, SAP, SAS on Notice

IBM, which already had partnered with SPSS, is taking a significant step into the burgeoning predictive analytics space with the proposed purchase of the company. There has been a race on by the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and SAS to build up their data analytics capabilities both through acquisitions and in-house development and IBM buying SPSS would put it in the forefront of the increasingly competitive space, according to analysts.
– IBMs proposed $1.2 billion acquisition
of SPSS is the most significant piece in the puzzle at least since the
Cognos purchase in 2007 in the vendors push to give customers the tools they
need to not only collect data but also to use it to their business advantage.
It also puts software rivals su…


Gordon Brown: Green Revolution Will Power Britain’s Recovery

wo centuries ago, Britain was at the forefront of a new industrial age that transformed our small island into the workshop of the world and a global economic powerhouse.