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Salesforce.com, Deloitte Announce Alliance to Bring Apex to the Enterprise
Salesforce.com and Deloitte Consulting are going global with on-demand development capabilities. The two companies announced Jan. 30 a strategic alliance that has Deloitte building out its customer relationship management practice around Salesforce.com’s applications and Apex development platform. As part of the alliance, Deloitte Consulting will incorporate Salesforce.com’s suite of CRM applications, as well as its…
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Data Security Firms Ally to Promote Standards
Eight leading data security companies have joined forces to create an organization to educate the business community on the value of global security standards that protect credit and debit card numbers. The newly formed Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance will assist the PCI Security Standards Council—an organization composed of merchants, banks and point-of-sale vendors—in…
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Vista Shines as Tablet Platform
Microsoft’s decision to incorporate Tablet PC features and functionality into the Windows Vista operating system is one that eWEEK Labs believes will help to convert Tablet PC skeptics. We installed the operating system on two Tablet PCs—Lenovo’s ThinkPad X60 Tablet and Fujitsu’s LifeBook T4215—and found that Microsoft has delivered a much more practical and smoother…
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MSPs Not Jumping for Vista
It’s not easy being Windows Vista. Not only do Microsoft partners report that business demand is next to nil, but managed services providers also are saying they want their customers to wait. Too many unanswered questions remain about hardware requirements, security implications and compatibility with existing business applications, MSPs say. And since the role of…
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Vista’s Nine Most Annoying Features
Microsoft Windows Vista is gonna be with us for a long time. It’s a fine operating system, so that’s good news. Still, riding shotgun with all of Vista’s charms are its many little annoyances. Here are nine that stick in my craw. 1. Who Am I and Who Are You Windows Vista tries hard to…
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Virtual Servers and Security
There’s a good argument to make, and some experts make it, that virtualization is one of those technologies that’s making a cyclical comeback. The whole VM thing, after all, was invented by IBM guys in the ’60s, right? My instincts are sympathetic to this argument: VMs were invented for an era when hardware was really,…
