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Microsoft Monitoring and Management for the Middle
Microsoft has tweaked its Windows Live OneCare self-updating PC care service to better meet the needs of small user group environments. Windows Live OneCare consists of a set of security and performance tools, all managed by a central console. Security features include anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall feature with automatic updates. Performance tools include backup and…
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Price of Gas Should Fuel Unified Communications
If you spend any time at all traveling on the roads this year for Thanksgiving, it will quickly dawn on you that driving in lots of traffic is not only not fun, it’s expensive. And worse yet, as we move into 2008 we’re probably looking at scenarios where gas reaches $4 a gallon given the…
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Software Is the Star Performer for HP
HP is lauding its software unit as its major growth area, following the vendor’s latest financial results. HP reported net revenue of $28.3 billion, up 15 percent from a year earlier and up 11 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2007. GAAP operating profit was…
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Maryland to Tax Computer Services
Maryland lawmakers Nov. 19 approved a 6 percent sales tax on computer services, a move industry groups call harmful to business and service. The measure, among $1.3 billion in new taxes intended to close a $1.7 billion budget deficit next year, levies a 6 percent sales tax, beginning in 2009, on IT facilities management and…
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IBM Exec Moves to Rival HP
Kevin Hooper, formerly IBM’s vice president of worldwide business partner strategy, will join Hewlett-Packard as general manager for Americas commercial SMB, according to HP. Sources said that Hooper will work with HP’s Technology Solutions Group Americas, which focuses on the direct sales channel, but will also work closely with solution providers that partner with TSG.…
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Silverback, EqualLogic Partners in Limbo
Competitors to Silverback and EqualLogic—two companies recently acquired by Dell—have been quick to poach partners who may be disenchanted with the idea of working for one-time channel nemesis Dell. The recent timing of Dell’s announced plans to acquire EqualLogic couldn’t have been better for Hifn, an EqualLogic competitor, which announced a new channel program the…
