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It appears that the combination of the value proposition for managed services and the economic environment are driving explosive growth in this market, according to new research from AMI-Partners. In an 11-country survey, including the U.S. and Canada, there’s been an almost 100-per cent increase in interest in managed services and software-as-a-service over the last […]

Microsoft may be doing a forklift move of its new 470,000-square-foot data center in Quincy, Wash., after state regulators declared the facility is not qualified for tax exemptions intended for manufacturing facilities. Data Center Knowledge reports that Microsoft is threatening to move the facility designated to host the Azure cloud-based operating system and application services […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc said it would acquire video compression software maker On2 Technologies Inc for $106.5 million, stepping up efforts to foster the spread of Internet video. The stock deal, which represents a 57 percent premium to On2’s Tuesday closing price, is Google’s first acquisition of a publicly traded company. On2’s technology shrinks video […]

AMD has announced it is now offering a free OpenCL for CPU beta download as part of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program. The beta is designed to help programmers more easily develop parallel software programs and take further advantage of multi-core x86 CPUs to accelerate software and deliver a better computing experience. AMD […]

With less than a 10 per cent share of the online search market, Microsoft’s Bing search engine would have a long way to go to catch up with its biggest competitor, Google, which has at least 70 per cent of the search market share. Microsoft is taking a new approach by partnering with Yahoo!, a […]

(Reuters) – Twitter, the popular Internet micro-blogging service, said it is fending off a cyber attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours on Thursday. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Twitter’s blog that the site was the victim of a denial-of-service attack, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a website’s servers […]

A partnership between CompTIA and MTCPerformance will offer discounts on incentive community Spiffs.com to CompTIA members and discounted membership in CompTIA for MTCPerformance customers. CompTIA gets a lot of member feedback regarding strategies and best practices they can use for their sales personnel, so the partnership with MTCPerformance will offer them a discount on an […]

By Michael Wei and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N) plans to double the size of its new consulting team in China to help a growing number of firms that want to emerge from the global economic crisis stronger and more international. Frank Kern, president of Global Business Services (GBS), IBM’s consulting arm, told […]

By Laura Isensee LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers. Sony plans to start selling its 5-inch-screen Reader Pocket Edition at $199 — which it called […]

NEW YORK, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported an 18 percent fall in quarterly revenue as customers held back spending on network equipment, but the decline was mostly in line with Wall Street forecasts and its profit was better than expected. Chief Executive John Chambers also said the company saw "a number […]

Aug 5 (Reuters) – Electronics components and computer products distributor Avnet Inc (NYSE:AVT) posted an adjusted quarterly profit that missed estimates, hurt by a drop in profit margins due to the regional business mix. The company posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $30 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with net income of $144.1 […]

New research commissioned by ConSentry Networks found that "multi-dimensional growth" of the network is placing new demands on IT departments, but the notion of incorporating context into the LAN may help IT resolve many of the challenges being faced. The Loudhouse Research report commissioned by ConSentry on "LAN sprawl" was based on interviews with 200 […]