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NEC's slim tablets... Nextel's all-you-can-eat plan... Worm woes |
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Sylvia Carr Senior Editor, AnchorDesk Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
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The cool hardware we've been hearing about for months is finally making its debut at Comdex. Among the highlights: NEC showed off its upcoming tablet PC, the Versa LitePad. It's the thinnest system of its kind, less than an inch thick and weighing only 2.1 pounds. Samsung unveiled the SyncMaster 172W, a 17-inch LCD that the company says offers 25 percent more work space than other 17-inch monitors. Alienware introduced a line of PCs running Windows XP Media Center. The "wow" feature here is the form factor: sleek black cubes, instead of the traditional towers. And ViewSonic presented a line of wireless monitors that let you control your PC from anywhere in your house.
Go to the full story by CNET Staff.
Want unlimited wireless Web access? More and more carriers are offering it. Most recently, Nextel says it will give you unlimited access to its wireless Web network for $50 a month. Metered wireless plans may be going the way of the pay-by-minute ISP plans that disappeared years ago. Nextel also announced that it will start selling the $500 BlackBerry 6510 pager, the first BlackBerry that doubles as a walkie-talkie, letting you talk with others over long distances. The pager will be available in select areas on Dec. 2 and nationwide beginning in January.
Go to the full story by Ben Charny.
One of the reasons worms still spread so quickly on the Net is that security holes aren't being patched frequently enough, according to a recent study by independent security consultant Eric Rescorla. Just look at the Linux Slapper worm, which was released in September. The worm compromised nearly 7,000 servers through a vulnerability in the Web security software known as OpenSSL--even though that flaw was made public seven weeks before Slapper appeared. Today three out of 10 systems with the flaw are still vulnerable. Calls by cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke for companies to become more secure don't seem to be helping: Overworked system administrators still tend to put off implementing patches until a threat seems imminent. But by then, it may already be too late.
Go to the full story by Robert Lemos.
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