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Intel Debuts Powerful, Energy-Saving Core i7 Processor
The Intel Core i7 processor officially debuted on Monday afternoon, and PC makers including Dell and Gateway, quickly followed suit with announcements about products using the new chip. The Intel Core i7 processor speeds processor-intensive applications like video editing and immersive games "by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption," Intel said in a…
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SOA Could Rebound as Recession-Busting Strategy
Service Oriented Architecture. The term, typically abbreviated to SOA, is a mouthful. It turns out it’s hard to explain as well, and as a result, making a case to customers for return on investment isn’t exactly easy. Determining ROI, in fact, is the greatest challenge developers working on SOA implementations say they face, according to…
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Businesses Slash Spending Across the Board
Businesses Slash Spending Across the Board Businesses large and small are cutting their spending-IT, staffing, marketing and sales-in response to either decreasing business or anticipation of lower revenues as a result of the recession. According to Computer Economics, the following are some of the key areas where companies are cutting spending and, in some cases,…
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Microsoft Launches Exchange, SharePoint Services
Microsoft dove deeper into the software-as-a-service market today with the general release of Exchange Online and Office SharePoint Online, offering the hosted applications both directly and through solution providers. The general availability of hosted Exchange e-mail and SharePoint collaboration server come as no surprise; Microsoft has carried beta versions of the two services for…
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iPhone Gaining Favor Among Business Users
Apple’s iPhone is finally starting to permeate the business community, driven by the release of business-friendly software for the 3G version in July and increasing popularity of the device among younger users. While Research in Motion still holds the lion’s share of the market for mobile text and voice devices, solution providers should start gearing…
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NYSE Suspends Trading of BearingPoint Stock
The New York Stock Exchange regulatory board is suspending from trading BearingPoint, one of the country’s largest technology integrators and solution providers, because its stock price is “abnormally low” and it has failed to maintain the minimum market capitalization. BearingPoint stock closed at 7 cents Friday, 64 percent lower than its Nov. 7 closing price.…
