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Intel’s Roadmap May Be Apple’s Road
Apple has legendarily been mum on its future product plans, but its relatively recent switch to Intel processors in its Macintosh line of computers has tied these products, as least in processor capabilities, to Intel’s public product plans. Though Apple will no doubt have surprises to reveal, looking at Intel’s plans can at least give…
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005 Update for Vista
Microsoft has released a new version of its Visual Studio toolset for Windows Vista development. On March 6, the Redmond, Wash., software giant released the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (Service Pack 1) Update for Windows Vista, so that developers building applications on Microsoft’s new operating system platform can enjoy an improved user experience that…
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Who Is Adrian Jones? No Matter, VARs Say
Hewlett-Packard announced its new channel chief, Adrian Jones, on March 2, and since then there seems to be but one response from the channel: “Who is Adrian Jones?” Jones, 40, comes from a much smaller company with a much different channel—storage vendor McDATA. But no matter, partners reached for comment seem to have a significant…
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What No Vegas for PartnerWorld? Phew!
Attendance and attention at IBM PartnerWorld keynotes should improve this year after Channel execs made the call to move the show from Las Vegas to St. Louis. Channel execs said they made the call to move the show after partners expressed some waning interest in a fourth consecutive PW in Sin City. And the city…
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Cyberoam Adds Image Spam, Opportunities for VARs
Cyberoam will integrate Commtouch’s anti-spam technology into its identity-based unified threat management product, further fortifying the spam detection the product offers, the company announced March 5. Commtouch protects against image spam, according to David Glenn, director of North American channel sales for Cyberoam. The company estimates that image spam accounts for 30 percent of all…
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Red Hat Snags Exadel Tools for JBoss
As the EclipseCon conference of Eclipse development platform users opens, Red Hat announced a power move that brings a set of mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat’s integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat, of Raleigh, NC, announced that Exadel,…
