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PCinsight has posted a review of Belkin´s USB VideoBus II capture device.

The Belkin USB VideoBus II offers several key advantages over other grabbers. It is compact, portable, lightweight, comes with a lifetime warranty, has excellent support and very good grabbing quality. Its software bundle is ideal for novice users and still useful to experienced users too. It is the perfect companion to a notebook or to any video camera owner. Leaving these details aside, for a price of only $72 (found on Pricewatch), the Belkin VideoBus II is a steal.
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Microsoft´s first crack at the security market, its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) firewall, has been dealt a major blow only weeks after its release as security experts warned that the product is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks.

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Late yesterday, Microsoft confirmed that it has canceled development of what would have been the seventh and final service pack for Windows NT 4.0. According to a Microsoft representative I contacted yesterday, the company decided to cancel Service Pack 7 (SP7) because of customer feedback; the number of hotfixes Microsoft has issued since SP6a´s release in November 1999 has dropped considerably in recent days.

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Microsoft, claiming to have learned from past mistakes, has added a number of features to the second beta of its upcoming Whistler server operating system that it says will make deployment easier, especially for Active Directory--the crown jewel of the server suite.

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OCOnline has posted their CeBIT 2001 report with over 70 pics, a lot of information and stories.

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Microsoft Corp.´s next-generation operating system will be limited in its support of USB 2.0 when the initial release hits the shelves later this year. But Windows XP will find a way to support the bus standard, the software giant said this week.

Microsoft is considering a number of options for getting the USB 2.0 software on the market in tandem with the Windows XP release, said Carl Stork, general manager of Microsoft´s Windows Division. "How that USB 2.0 software is shipped in the final version of XP, we don´t know," he said. "It could be shipped and turned on by default if suddenly a wave of hardware hits Redmond. It could be that we ship it but turn it off by default. Or it could be that we choose to distribute it through Windows later."

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Financial services provider Halifax will replace up to 500 of its 3000 NT servers and Unix systems with Microsoft´s Windows 2000 Datacentre server (W2DC) to cut operational costs. But analysts warn that the savings may take some time to achieve.

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