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Cisco offers zero interest financing to SMBs in India, China

Cisco Systems has introduced interest-free financing for its services delivered to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in some countries in Asia, hoping to boost its services business revenue from this segment of the market.

| News | Networking | Small business | 07/03/08 at 9:56 am |

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Disabling the Hidden Administrative Shares

I mentioned in my previous post that you can add $ to a share name to hide the share, and that it was a good idea to also modify the share name to something not easily guessable by some snoop. Note, however, that Windows Vista sets up certain hidden shares for administrative purposes, including one for drive C: (C$) and any other hard disk partitions you have on your system. Windows Vista also sets up the following hidden shares:

| How-to | Networking | Security | 07/02/08 at 5:54 am |

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Apparent Networks makes network and application performance more apparent

Denise Dubie writes about AppCritical 3.5 from Apparent Networks: "AppCritical 3.5 provides a view of distributed networks, including the segments owned by service providers, to show network managers the root of performance problems, whether it be the network or the application."

| News | Networking | 06/30/08 at 11:35 am |

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Wi-Fi Alliance takes on wireless IP telephony

Wi-Fi Alliance wants to make voice a part of Wi-Fi networks and introduced a new program to certify products, it announced Monday.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Networking | 06/30/08 at 10:49 am |

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