Year: 2006

  • Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft

    Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft

    Peter Galli

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    As Microsoft heads into 2007, the company faces a number of ongoing threats and challenges, most notably getting its large installed base to upgrade to the latest wave of products. “The larger the installed base gets, the harder it is to move, and the longer it takes to transition,” Al Gillen, vice president of research… Read more

  • VARs Find Money in Staffing

    VARs Find Money in Staffing

    John Hazard

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    With the crunch on to hire qualified IT staff from an insufficient talent pool, businesses are increasingly turning to VARs and solution providers for help locating staff, and VARs are finding that it pays. By some estimates, there as many as 10 IT openings for every qualified candidate, and businesses are climbing over each other… Read more

  • Report: Spamming Soared in 2006

    Report: Spamming Soared in 2006

    Brian Prince

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    A report on spam by e-mail security firm Commtouch Software dubs 2006 the “Year of the Zombies.” The study found that “zombies,” the name given computers remote-controlled by hackers, can number up to 8 million hosts globally on a given day. As a result, spam volume increased by 30 percent in 2006, according to the… Read more

  • Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007

    Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007

    Deborah Rothberg

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    Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on Dec. 26. While more than one-third (36 percent) of employers expect to add 10 employees or fewer in 2007, 29 percent intend to hire more than 50, and 20 percent plan… Read more

  • PC Platforms: Looking Back at 2006 and Ahead to 2007

    PC Platforms: Looking Back at 2006 and Ahead to 2007

    Loyd Case

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    Consider the desktop personal computer. Form factors have changed, new CPUs have emerged, and more-advanced chip sets have arrived on the scene, but the fundamental PC platform remains little changed. You still have core logic, a CPU, separate memory, and an underlying system board. It’s true that AMD moves the memory controller onto the CPU,… Read more

  • Be Resolved to Do Better Marketing

    Be Resolved to Do Better Marketing

    Michael Vizard

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    It’s that time of year where everyone makes some sort of New Year’s resolution about improving their business only to see it go by the wayside inside of the first two weeks of January. Given the fact that many solution provider companies are run by people who turned a technology avocation into an actual vocation,… Read more