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Sutus Business Central 200

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PC World - One of a new business’s first steps is to install office tools for day-to-day communications, including a router with wireless access, phone lines, and a file server. The Sutus Business Central 200 combines these devices in a single appliance, simplifying setup and helping you avoid having to configure multiple pieces of unrelated gear individually.

Some of the Business Central 200′s specs are strangely dated, such as single-band, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 250GB of storage; and a single gigabit ethernet port. But for the most part, the unified approach works, getting your small business running quickly with minimal configuration hassles.

The Business Central 200 targets offices with anywhere from a handful to 25 employees. It could fit well in a retail shop, connecting to your point-of-sale system or security cameras, or it could serve as the backend communications spine of your service-based

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The iPhone 4: Just take it back

By admin on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Network World - If something doesn’t work and it hasn’t hurt you somehow, what do you do? You take it back and get a refund. It’s that simple.

For example, a few weeks ago I purchased a clock radio for my bedside table. I tried it out and it worked well enough but that night, I spotted a problem: The device’s display was illuminated by one of those super-bright blue LEDs and with the lights off, it was like being in a bad science fiction movie.

Did I call Sony and demand a fix? No. Did I bitch endlessly to all and sundry? No. What did I do? I voted with my dollars; I returned the product. End of story. Now, give me a moment and I’ll explain the relevance of this tale to the hoo-ha over the iPhone 4′s antenna problems.

Antenna guru: “Get

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Google to rev up Chrome release schedule

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Computerworld - Google on Thursday said it will pick up Chrome’s release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks.

According to Anthony Laforge, a Chrome program manager, the new schedule will put a a new “stable” version of the browser in users’ hands roughly twice often as in the past. The picked-up pace will debut over the next few months.

Google calls the production line of Chrome its “stable” build, but also maintains two other release editions — “beta” and “dev” — that produce more frequent updates.

Laforge said Google had several goals in mind for the move, including getting new features to users faster, releasing updates on a more predictable schedule and taking pressure off its developers to finish features.

Increasing the frequency of Chrome releases means programmers won’t have to rush a feature to make an every-three-month

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Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue

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IDG News Service - A sequence of errors led to Dell‘s delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resolve issues before dispatching hardware to customers, it said on Thursday.

Dell on Wednesday said that some replacement motherboards for PowerEdge servers may have contained the W32.Spybot worm in flash storage. The malware issue affected a limited number of replacement motherboards in four servers, the PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410 models, the company said.

“There was a sequence of human errors that led to the issue, That being said, we have identified and implemented 16 additional process steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” said Dell spokesman Jim Hahn.

Hahn did not provide additional details on the steps being added to track and resolve such issues. But he

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Microsoft: No money for bugs

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Computerworld - Microsoft will not follow the lead of Mozilla and Google in paying researchers for reporting vulnerabilities, a company executive said today.

“We don’t think [bug bounties] are the best way for us to compensate researchers,” said Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC) in an interview Thursday.

Reavey was responding to questions about recent moves by Google and Mozilla to boost payments made to outside researchers who report flaws, and whether Microsoft would follow suit.

Last week, Mozilla hiked Firefox bounties for bugs rated “critical” and “high” to $3,000. A few days later, Google matched Mozilla’s raise by increasing the top-dollar payment to $3,133 for reported Chrome flaws.

But Microsoft won’t dive into the same pool.

“Not all researchers are financially motivated,” Reavey said, an argument that flies in the face of what some of the best-known researchers

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