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Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently. Cisco’s so called “Smart Grid” infrastructure plan looks to create a two-way communications…
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Zyrion Eyes New Partners for BSM Solutions
Zyrion is making Traverse BSM available to channel partners, marking an expansion of its channel partner program. As such, the company is looking to expand the number of channel partners it works with. According to Vikas Aggarwal, president and CEO, Zyrion is focusing on the U.S. market initially with the launch of Traverse BSM into…
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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Distributor Group Says Recession Close to Bottom
Intel has said the PC market has hit bottom, and analysts and at least one distributor seem to agree, even if some significantnaysayers remain. But adding to the it’s-not-getting-any-worse camp, this week the Global Technology Distribution Council, a consortium of IT distributors, says that the sales declines that the industry have experienced are slowing down…
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Did IBM Bid Force Oracle`s Hand to Buy All of Sun?
It may have been a potential bid by IBM that forced Oracle into agreeing to acquire Sun Microsystems as a whole, despite an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing showing that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison originally sought to acquire only Sun’s software assets. The SEC filing notes that in addition to Oracle, there were two…