Archive for November, 2009

CommPilot Call Manager - New and Improved!

Monday, November 30, 2009 16:27 No Comments

Users of the CommPilot Call Manager will see a “new and improved” version of the web client when they log on starting December 1, 2009.  The new combined Call Manager/Attendant Console client, seamlessly available to all Enterprise Users (Dial Tone, Standard and Premium seats), is intended to support all existing Call Manager and Attendant Console [...]

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Microsoft Advises on IE6/IE7 Vulnerability

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 16:01 No Comments

Microsoft has released an advisory for the vulnerability in Internet Explorer disclosed by third parties over the weekend. No actual attacks in the wild using this vulnerability are known yet.
Versions 6 and 7 of IE are vulnerable to the attack, which can be delivered on a web page. Version 5 (still supported on Windows 2000 for [...]

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Thankful for Windows 7 or Google Chrome OS

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:06 No Comments

Going into the Thanksgiving weekend I thought it was a perfect time to write an opinion piece on these two new operating systems released in the past 30 days. How do they compare and what is best for you, is still to be determined and may need further thought and consideration.
Windows 7 has a new [...]

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Microsoft Warns On Windows 7 Zero Day

Monday, November 23, 2009 15:52 No Comments

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has released an advisory for a zero day bug that cropped up in Windows 7 the day after last week’s November Patch Tuesday release.The vulnerability lies in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is used for file and printer sharing, and can reportedly be used by attackers to remotely crash any Windows 7 [...]

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Google Releases Chrome OS To Open Source

Friday, November 20, 2009 13:11 No Comments

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) on Thursday released the code for its Chrome OS project to the open source community, removing any ambiguity that may have existed about its intention to tip the Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Windows cash cow with an easy-to-use Linux based alternative.At a press conference at the Mountain View, Calif.-based Googleplex, Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and [...]

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