NEWS&ANALYSIS
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PCS
Gateway upgrades
Profile desktop
GATEWAY HAS UPGRADED ITS ALL-
in-one desktop computer with
Intel’s latest chip set, as well as
integrated graphics technology.
The $1,400 Profile 5.5 features
a high-bandwidth Serial ATA hard
drive and as much as 2GB of
memory.
The company targets the PC
at businesses, government
offices and schools with little
available desktop space. As with
previous models, the Profile 5.5
offers 15-, 17- and 19-inch
screens.
The Profile 5.5 comes with the
915G chip set, a 2.8GHz Pentium
4 processor and a 1MB cache. It
can be ordered with a Celeron D
chip, said Gateway officials.
Also offered with the all-inone are integrated Ethernet support, optional 802.11g wireless
capabilities and Client Manager
8.1 management software. It
comes with the Windows XP Pro
or XP Home operating system.
—Jeffrey Burt
Gateway’s Profile 5.5 features
the latest Intel technology.
WI-FI
Colubris adds
QOS for WLANs
COLUBRIS NETWORKS THIS WEEK
will introduce a suite of qualityof-service software for its line
of WLAN access devices and
controllers.
Building on the recently ratified IEEE 802.11e standard, the
Service Aware Wi-Fi QOS software prioritizes network traffic
based on its function—data
transfers, voice over IP or video
surveillance.
The company also is upgrading its network management
software. Version 3.1 of the
Colubris Network Management
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Secretary] Tom Ridge talk about this? All
they talk about is physical security. I’m tired
of people trying to sugarcoat this.
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System is optimized to centrally
manage the wireless LAN based
on QOS, officials said.
The software is available to
Colubris customers as a free
upgrade. —Carmen Nobel
PRINTERS
Lexmark spruces up
color lasers
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL THIS WEEK
is shipping new color laser printers with faster speeds, enhanced
media-handling capabilities and
cost-saving features.
The C762, targeted at midsize
and large enterprises, prints 25
pages per minute in color and in
monochrome.
It will replace Lexmark’s older
model, the C752. The C762,
priced at $1,799, is cheaper than
the older model, which is priced
at $1,869.
The cost per page is about 1.1
cents for monochrome and 8.3
cents for color, said Lexmark officials.
Powered by a 500MHz
processor, the C762 has 128MB
of memory and includes USB 2.0
and parallel interfaces. A networked model with 100MB more
of memory, the C762n, costs
$2,099, and a networked model
with a duplexer, the C762dn,
costs $2,299, or $2,799 with
a 500-sheet paper drawer.
Lexmark this week is also
shipping a multifunction color
laser printer. The network-ready
X762e comes with two 500sheet paper trays and a duplexer
for two-sided printing. It is priced
at $7,499. —Shelley Solheim
INTERNET
Ask Jeeves adds
personalization
ASK JEEVES IS GETTING PERSONAL
with Web searches and trying to
leapfrog past bigger competitors
in the process.
The company last week
launched a series of personalization features for its search engine
that let users store individual
search results, organize them
and share them through a new
MyJeeves service.
Ask Jeeves’ personal push
follows the launch last week of
Amazon.com’s A9.com search
engine, which focuses on customization. Search engine analysts expect other major search
engines, such as Google and
Yahoo, to soon follow suit with
their own personalized search services. —Matt Hicks, eweek.com
BY THE NUMBERS
Port attacks
Top attacked ports Jan. 1-June 30
RANK PORT
SERVICE
1
2
3
TCP/80
TCP/445
TCP/135
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
TCP/4662
TCP/6346
TCP/22
TCP/1026
TCP/113
TCP/2745
TCP/1025
HTTP/Web
Microsoft CIFS file sharing
Microsoft DCE remote
procedure call
E-donkey/P2P file sharing
Gnutella/P2P file sharing
Secure shell/remote access
Various dynamic services
Ident service
Beagle
Various dynamic services
PERCENT OF
ATTACKERS
30
17
15
7
5
4
3
3
3
3
Source: Symantec TMS data
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