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Cisco and Tandberg Prepare to Dominate Business Video Market
For Cisco partners who sold the company’s Telepresence system, the acquisition and integration of Tandberg was welcome news. And with the deal completed just a few weeks ago, Cisco at its partner conference this week shed some light on the integration of partner programs going forward and announced a new discount for channel partners. Cisco…
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Oracle Shows Partners Some Love as HP and IBM Try to Woo Them Away
With so many others like IBM and HP reaching out helping hands to Oracle partners in the wake of its ongoing acquisition spree—five already this year, including Sun Microsystems—it seems only fair that Oracle respond with something more channel-friendly than the decision to take Sun’s top 4,000 customers direct. The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) has announced…
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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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HP Buys Palm for $1.2B, Targets iPhone, Android, iPad
HP (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to acquire Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM)for $1.2 billion, giving the 70-year-old technology juggernaut a foothold in the mobile handset market while at the same time it rescues the Palm platform in an increasingly fast-moving and competitive market. HP said in a statement that the combination of HP’s global scale and…
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LifeSize Offers Disruptive Price on Video Broadcast Services
LifeSize, the value-based video conferencing telepresence upstart, is now offering a streaming video system for broadcast-like streaming capabilities but without the cost of installing a whole video studio. The system requires a LifeSize end point system be used to create the video, enabling the encoding to be performed at that client, leaving the server appliance…