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Yahoo Channelizes to Battle Microsoft, Ichan
Yahoo is getting bossy in its battle to stave off Microsoft’s takeover ambitions. According to published reports, Yahool is launching its “build your own search service” project—or BOSS—through which it will partner with third-party search engines to take share away from Google. In other words, Yahoo is building a search channel. It’s an ingenious solution…
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Former HP Exec Admits Stealing IBM Documents
Former Hewlett Packard vice president of imaging and printing services Atul Malhotra is facing 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to stealing trade secrets from IBM, according to federal prosecutors. According to court records, Malhoutra, 42, worked at IBM from 1997 to 2006. In March of 2006, while serving as director of sales…
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CDW IT Monitor: IT Staffing, Budget Outlook Brighter
The past two months have seen IT executives grow increasing bullish about the future of their organizations, according to the results of the most recent CDW IT Monitor, a bimonthly survey that gauges IT budget management and spending plans and tracks the perceived value of business technology. The CDW IT Monitor index, which debuted in…
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Microsoft Preps Sales and Marketing Tools
Todd Weatherby, general manager of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, is among that rare breed of vendor exec who really understands what resellers need help with. He’s proving that here at WPC by showing off some spiffy additions to the Velocity platform aimed squarely at demand gen and sales management. Already serving a million reseller visitors…
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The Odd News Tidbit Interrupts Multilingual Grumbling at WPC
Going into day three at WPC and most of the talk is still about the tepid Software + Services announcement from Tuesday morning. Suffice it to say resellers here are underwhelmed by the Microsoft vision for delivering a hybrid of cloud and on-site applications. And the recurring revenue stream promised by a 12 percent upfront…
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Microsoft Partner Initiatives, Pricing Take Shape
HOUSTON – Microsoft started its Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 with a series of announcements including a new pricing and partner model for Microsoft Online Services, as well as other announcements around the company’s effort to focus on a software-plus-services strategy. Indeed, during the opening keynote address, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division,…