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El 76% de los españoles se muestra preocupado o muy inquieto con el uso que hacen los bancos de los datos privados de sus clientes, mientras que el 69% desconfía de la utilización de esos datos por las Administraciones Públicas, según el Índice de Seguridad que por quinta vez realiza Unisys. Tan sólo el 9% confía plenamente.

Federal agencies have deployed radio frequency identification technology to manage their assets, tracking everything from seagoing containers to paper medical files, and even to determine how fast a letter moves through the international postal system.

If quad-core CPUs are good, six cores must be better -- especially for servers. On Tuesday, Intel announced a six-core Xeon 7400 CPU, positioning it as the premier virtualization and transaction-processing platform.

On hand with testimonial support were the industry's largest hardware and software vendors, including IBM, Dell and Microsoft.

Xeon Virtualization

Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing.

The company said new capabilities have been added, such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis. Microsoft is also touting its support for aggregation, summarization, search engines, dashboards, transactions across distributed data sources, and long-running transactions.

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