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Microsoft Kills OneCare, Offers Morro as Free Replacement
After garnering only 2 percent market share in the two years since its launch, Microsoft’s OneCare all-in-one security and PC management service will be replaced by a free software package. In a statement, Microsoft said it will stop selling OneCare as of June 2009. The new software, code-named Morro, will be a no-frills program suited…
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Making Money on Technology in a Recession
Everywhere you turn these days, some research organization or another is cutting its spending forecast for 2009. The latest case in point is IDC, which is cutting its forecast for IT spending growth in 2009 from 5.9 percent growth to 2.6 percent growth. Similarly, the folks at Computer Economics, a research company based in Irvine,…
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Analyst: iPhone Faces Several Business Challenges
The iPhone is making slow inroads into the enterprise, which has traditionally been the stronghold of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, but some of the barriers to adoption may be beyond Apple’s control. In a recent study that sampled its general user base, wireless bill auditing firm Validas found that of a sample size of 625…
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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,…
