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5 Reasons the Pre Can`t Save Palm

Palm reported a $105 million narrower-than-expected loss during its fiscal fourth quarter. The company is hopeful for a turnaround, banking mostly on the promise of its just-out Pre smartphone, a device that company executives have all but declared an organizational life preserver. "The launch of Palm webOS and Palm Pre was a major milestone in […]

Jun 26, 2009
Microsoft Still Courting Yahoo Partnership

Yahoo and Microsoft continued their “Will they? Won’t They?” dance this week regarding online advertising partnerships. Executives at each company spoke up on the topic today, with Microsoft making it clear that it is open to a deal and Yahoo remaining cryptic on the topic. Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer spoke first this week […]

Jun 25, 2009
PC Makers Face Looming Chinese Spyware Mandate

With less than a week remaining before PC makers are required to install censorship software on all units headed to China, industry insiders are simultaneously skittering to prep units for distribution while also seeking other avenues to potentially convince the Chinese government to change its mind on the mandate at the 11th hour. Known as […]

Jun 25, 2009
Palm Gets in Its Own Way With SDK Delay

Palm just made its uphill battle against Apple all the more difficult on itself with its recent announcement that it will delay the public release of the webOS software developer’s kit SDK, also known as Mojo, until the ‘end of summer.’ The cellphone maker hoped to score a big hit this month with its release […]

Jun 24, 2009
Apple VARs React to Jobs` Resurfacing

Since Apple’s announcement yesterday that Steve Jobs is back on the job after a successful recovery from a liver transplant, technology journalists’ keyboards have been a-tappin’ over his health prognosis. But those in the Apple channel are asking themselves, ‘Does it really matter to the business?’ Many of Apple’s VARs and service providers wish Jobs […]

Jun 24, 2009
HP Unfurls the Mini 5101 Netbook

Hewlett-Packard started retooling its efforts today to attract the business user to the promise of more usable, more rugged netbooks with the release of its latest Mini netbook, the Mini 5101. Designed to be slightly larger than its last netbook iteration, the Mini 5101 addresses one of the key complaints business and consumers users have […]

Jun 24, 2009
14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

The technology prognosticators at Gartner say the convergence of new IT delivery models will fundamentally transform the way businesses consume and interact with IT within the next three to five years. “In and of themselves, discretely defined, things like Software as a Service, grid computing and virtualization are important in their own disciplines within IT,” […]

Nov 7, 2007
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