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Selena Frye

Selena Frye

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Selena Frye

Selena Frye
Selena has been at TechRepublic since 2002. She is currently a Senior Editor with a background in technical writing, editing, and research. She edits Data Center, Linux and Open Source, Apple in the Enterprise, The Enterprise Cloud, Web Designer, and IT Security blogs.
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    1TB optical media 'in sight'

    A recent article over at ComputerWorld alerted me to an Israeli technology company, Mempile Inc . For the past seven years Mempile has taken on over $30 million of investment from private...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 24, 2007, 3:27 PM PST | Latest comment by AlaniPhantom

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    Norway mandates open formats; the beginning of the end for Office?

    In a move to ensure equal access to public information for Norwegian citizens, the government has decided to make the freely accessible document standards HTML, PDF, and ODF obligatory.The recent...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 22, 2007, 4:32 PM PST | Latest comment by Justin Fielding

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    My Top 5 Tech toys for Christmas

    It's that time of year again. A time to give and receive the latest Tech toys! So what's hot this Christmas? Here are my top 5 Tech toys for the season: Sony Ericsson K850i Now I know a lot of...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 18, 2007, 2:33 PM PST

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    Backtrack 3 Beta is out

    Remote-Exploit.org has released the beta of Backtrack 3. As many of you will know, Backtrack is a Linux distribution focused specifically on penetration testing and security auditing. Over 300...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 15, 2007, 5:31 PM PST | Latest comment by normhaga@...

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    On the client side: OCS client software and hardware

    There's been a lot of focus on Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and all of its features, but there's been a lot less talk about the all-important client end of the equation. Here's a quick...

    Posted by Deb Shinder | December 14, 2007, 12:09 PM PST

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    Configure lines and VTYs on Cisco routers

    All Cisco routers have two special types of lines, and many Cisco routers have a third. What are these lines, and how do you configure them? These are things that every network admin should know.

    Posted by David Davis | December 13, 2007, 10:09 AM PST | Latest comment by vijayasankarj

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    Enabling Exchange ActiveSync: HTTP_500 error explained and solved

    Exchange ActiveSync for Exchange Server 2003 allows mobile phones or devices running Windows Mobile 2002, 2003, and Windows Mobile 5.0 to access information on the Exchange Server. The ActiveSync...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 11, 2007, 12:31 PM PST

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    DRM enforced on storage?

    I just read an article tipping off unsuspecting consumers to Western Digital’s network storage problems. Western Digital’s ‘My Book World Edition’ is specifically designed to make peoples...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 9, 2007, 2:56 PM PST | Latest comment by JCitizen

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    VoIP providers must allow emergency calls

    The UK’s telecommunications watchdog Ofcom ruled this week that VoIP providers must allow access to emergency telephone numbers 999 and 112. The decision comes after a consultation process...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 9, 2007, 12:08 PM PST

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    Microsoft UC for the rest of us

    What about small to midsize businesses that want VoIP with UC features such as speech recognition and voice mail-to-e-mail but don't need all the sophisticated and high-priced functionality?...

    Posted by Deb Shinder | December 7, 2007, 12:41 PM PST | Latest comment by TechExec2

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    Limit bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port

    A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let's take a closer look.

    Posted by David Davis | December 6, 2007, 1:07 PM PST | Latest comment by vivs1987

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    Does Three mobile broadband beat your fixed-line broadband?

    Last week, I took a brief look at the mobile broadband packages on offer right now. Vodafone came out on top with the fastest service of 7.2Mbps (claimed) although at £25 ($50) their monthly fee...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 4, 2007, 5:35 PM PST | Latest comment by Tuskan360@...

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    Wireless keyboards officially insecure?

    Security research group Dreamlab have released a new white paper entitled 27Mhz Wireless Keyboard Analysis Report aka "We know what you typed last summer". The paper, written by Max Moser &...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 4, 2007, 5:28 PM PST | Latest comment by jc@...

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    Botnets: Can they be beaten?

    Botnets: the plague of the Internet in recent times, they are used to perpetrate all sorts of illegal activities from collecting personal and confidential information to hammering mail servers...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | December 2, 2007, 8:33 AM PST | Latest comment by Justin Fielding

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    Unified communications: What it means to your business

    Individual communications technologies are converging into an integrated whole. Unified communications (UC) is an outgrowth of a similar-sounding but different concept, unified messaging (UM). UC...

    Posted by Deb Shinder | November 30, 2007, 1:13 PM PST | Latest comment by markayd@...

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    What can Cisco's Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) do for you?

    In 2005, I wrote that Cisco's Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) was one of the best features of Cisco IOS 12.3. Two years later, it still is. Let's look at what NBAR can do for you and...

    Posted by David Davis | November 29, 2007, 12:36 PM PST | Latest comment by uffe@...

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    Shopping for the right SSL: What are the options?

    When looking to use SSL certificates to secure communications, there are many different options available. Extended Validation, SGC, standard SSL, and domain-validated SSL are the options...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | November 27, 2007, 1:24 PM PST | Latest comment by gadiandi@...

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    Affordable mobile broadband?

    I've been keeping an eye on various mobile broadband offerings and noticed they are much more readily available these days. What's more, it seems they are affordable and very usable when compared...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | November 27, 2007, 3:10 AM PST | Latest comment by manoj.contentwriter@...

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    Changes in Exchange 2007 transport architecture

    In Mail delivery changes in Exchange 2007, I outlined how Exchange 2007 has been re-engineered in a big way due to 2007's role-based nature, which necessitated a reworking of how different...

    Posted by Scott Lowe | November 25, 2007, 11:27 AM PST | Latest comment by p.j.hutchison@...

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    British government in data loss fiasco

    Anyone who doesn't follow the British media may have missed the most recent failure of the government to protect its citizen's personal data. On Tuesday Alistair Darling - Chancellor of the...

    Posted by Justin Fielding | November 25, 2007, 9:30 AM PST

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