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Report: Offshoring to Have No Sudden Bad Effects
While offshore outsourcing is expected to affect wages and employment in developing countries, it won’t have any sudden negative impact on developed countries’ economies, according to a report released Feb. 22 by the McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The report “Sizing the Emerging Global Labor Market” attempts…
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Network Intelligence Channel Partners Merged into RSA Program
EMC is merging the channel program of IT security vendor Network Intelligence, which it acquired in September 2005, into the channel program of RSA, acquired by EMC in October 2005, and now considered the parent company’s security division. RSA said Network Intelligence channel partners have been invited to join the RSA SecurWorld program. RSA said…
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Windows Vista Desktops Look Promising
Windows Vista has been available to consumers for nearly a month now. Many new and revamped PCs incorporating Microsoft’s latest operating system have been released, with lots more on the way. So far, we’ve looked at a range of Vista desktops from gaming rigs to all-in-one PCs to low-end machines, and by and large, we’ve…
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Gartner: Service, Support Beat Price in the SMB Market
Service and support trump price for small and midsize businesses. Seventy-three percent of SMBs rated the service and support they received from their technology providers as the most important factor in a buying decision, according to Gartner’s “User Survey Analysis: IT Evaluation Criteria and Channel Preferences in the SMB Market, United States, 2006.” With that…
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Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 Is a Good (and Free) Virtualization Option for Windows Users
Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 offers developers and administrators an inexpensive option for satisfying their testing, support and application compatibility needs through the magic of virtualization. The most notable addition to the product, which is a follow-on to Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004, is support for Windows Vista as a host or guest operating system. VPC 2007,…
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Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise
After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging. Google, which has steadily transformed itself from a search engine pioneer into a data access, Internet advertising and business…
