For the first time in my memory, some retailers did not add to their selling staff, thus keeping the selling costs in check.

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Richard Egan, an early Andy Grove protg at Intel, and former college buddy Roger Marino set up EMC in 1979 to build add-on memory for minicomputers.

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While technologies such as Solidcore (just acquired by McAfee) can be installed to make a Windows machine impervious to attack via essentially randomizing memory and system call registries and other randomizing in the network can add to the investment at attacker must make to be successful, there is one area that is ripe for exploration.

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