Year: 2009

  • Microsoft Profits, Sales Fall — But Beat Expectations

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s quarterly profit fell a smaller-than-expected 18 percent on Friday, as the world’s largest software company held up better than feared, sending its shares up 8 percent. The company, which released its new Windows 7 operating system this week, reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $3.57 billion, or 40 cents per share, compared… Read more

  • IBM Mines VC Community for Diamonds

    Carolyn April

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    Claudia Fan Munce joined IBM 24 years ago as a researcher. Today, still at IBM, Fan Munce is in a decidedly different role. She’s a matchmaker of sorts, bringing select VC-backed ISVs into the IBM fold and connecting them to other IBM business partners to get their solutions to market. “We like to call ourselves… Read more

  • The No. 1 App Coming to the Cloud? Your PC

    Jessica Davis

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    What’s the killer app for the cloud these days? If you ask one of the biggest data sourcing companies, TPI, which acts as matchmaker between outsourcers and outsourcing service providers, companies looking to cloud computing want to move something very basic out there – their PCs. “Companies are buying access to terminals for a lot… Read more

  • Microsoft Launches Win7 at Jammed New York Press Event

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    The anticipation is palitable at the Microsoft Window 7 launch event in Manhattan. At the Skylight Studios in SOHO, Microsoft has packed a small room with dozens of reporters from mainstream and technology media outlets.It’s literally standing room only. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to take the stage shortly with a special guest to… Read more

  • Window 7 Launch Event: Microsoft Rolls Ads

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    While keeping press and invited guest waiting for the start of the Windows 7 Launch event, Microsoft played a series of its commercials, including the “You find it, you keep it” ads. Funny, those ads all feature machines running Vista. Read more

  • RSA Leverages TrendMicro Technology in New Deal

    Ericka Chickowski

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    RSA announced this week that it will tap TrendMicro technology to add a higher level of real-time threat intelligence to the RSA FraudAction Service, which is operated by RSA’s ’round-the-clock Anti-Fraud Command Center. The new partnership links FraudAction with TrendMicro Smart Protection Network to leverage threat intelligence gathered by TrendMicro and bolster RSA’s ability to… Read more