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Apple: Leopard Delayed Until October
Apple acknowledge April 12 that its highly anticipated new Mac OS X 10.5, which the company is calling Leopard, will be delayed until at least October, although developers could have a beta version by June. The Cupertino, Calif., company announced the delay in a statement released April 12. The reason, according to Apple, is that…
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How Can AMD Be Fixed?
On almost all fronts, it’s been a tough year so far for Advanced Micro Devices. The fierce competition between the chip maker, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., and its rival, Intel, continues to take its toll on the company, with AMD’s revenues slipping sharply quarter over quarter due to lower unit sales—especially in the resale channel.…
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Tech Pay Broke the Bank in Early ’07
In the first quarter of 2007, IT professionals raked in their highest average wages since 2001, according to the Q1 Yoh Index of Technology Wages, released April 11. Technology pay reached an average hourly rate of $31.80 in Q1 2007, finds the report. Wages saw a 5.5 percent bump in January, a 4 percent gain…
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Konica Minolta Set to Launch New Printing Software
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. announced April 11 that it will unveil its Printgroove software next week at the 2007 On Demand Conference in Boston. Printgroove provides businesses, CRD (central reproduction departments) and small and midsize print shops with software that can manage, monitor and set up the company’s various bizhub MFP (multifunction printer) platforms,…
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Microsoft Delays the Release of Viridian, Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Microsoft has pushed back the release of the first public beta for Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, from the first half of 2007 until the second half of the year so that it can meet its internal goals for performance and scalability. Viridian is Microsoft’s Windows hypervisor technology that will run beneath the operating system…
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VARs Turn to Peer Networks
VARs, system integrators and other types of channel partners these days are relying more and more on a less commonly discussed source for new business leads and problem-solving information—each other. The trend, which has been building for several years, according to IDC analysts, has accelerated during the last year or two, most recently with the…
