by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Testing Enterprise RSS servers

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Nov 17, 20061 min

Fresh from the Test Center: InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck fired up the test lab to put three enterprise RSS products through the gauntlet: Attensa's Feed Server, NewsGator Enterprise Server, and KnowNow 3 Enterprise Syndication Solution. All three use a central server to retrieve feeds once and distribute them to many users, saving precious bandwidth, and have a host of management and control features.

Fresh from the Test Center: InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck fired up the test lab to put three enterprise RSS products through the gauntlet: Attensa’s Feed Server, NewsGator Enterprise Server, and KnowNow 3 Enterprise Syndication Solution. All three use a central server to retrieve feeds once and distribute them to many users, saving precious bandwidth, and have a host of management and control features. The ultimate winner? Read the review and find out.

Guess the password, win a prize: The recent MySpace phishing scheme netted thousands of passwords and logon information. Roger Grimes picked up a couple of the files and came away with 34,000 different passwords, which proved to be a useful tool for emphasizing how easy it is to crack most passwords. This week’s Security Adviser column crunches the numbers and provides some valuable insights into password probability.

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