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Telecom Group OTE May Sue Siemens
FRANKFURT – OTE, Greece’s largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom, may sue Siemens for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. OTE has contacted lawyers in Germany and Greece to examine and prepare all necessary steps, which include a claim for damages, the paper said in a preview of an…
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Hi-tech CEOs offer Yahoo, Microsoft merger advice
CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) – Microsoft and Yahoo seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other. That’s turned speculation over what it will take to get the two of them together into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is "mystified" the…
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Harris Under Fire in Census Mobile Debacle
Don’t worry, Americans: You will be counted as part of the 2010 U.S. census—just not as efficiently as planned, thanks to the meltdown of a major mobile computing implementation that was supposed to bring the huge data-collection project into the wireless age. The goal was to make participating in the census as easy as signing…
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Oracle Helps Partners Hit the Accelerator
Faced with increasing competition from lower-cost, offshore software integrators, DAZ Systems decided to try out Oracle’s Accelerate program, the go-to-market strategy Oracle developed in August 2007 to better target midmarket customers. The bottom line? "It works, it really, really works," says Walt Zipperman, co-founder and vice president of marketing for DAZ Systems. And by "work,"…
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Lexmark Offers Managed Services for its VARs
Lexmark is telling its VARs to think managed services when it comes to offering printing solutions. The Lexington, Ky. printing vendor announced Oct. 23 that it expanded its channel program to allow its VARs to offer more managed services to customers as a way to add value to its products. The program, called the Lexmark…
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VARs Eye Boom in Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business
When Microsoft released its own hosted Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint offerings to sell directly to customers this past March, many observers expected a cold reception from the company’s longstanding channel partners. And some may indeed have felt a shiver when they heard that the world’s largest software company, and one that had always been…
