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  • IBM Enters Social Scene

    IBM’s Lotus Division is taking on Microsoft in the highly competitive market of social software for businesses with its new Lotus Connections products. Speaking at the Lotusphere show here Jan. 22, Michael Rhodin, general manager of IBM Lotus, said the announcements represented the “most dramatic expansion of collaborative technology ever,” particularly in comparison with competitive…

  • Storage Channel Fights Reluctant Customers

    Hiring someone outside the company to store, manage and protect all a company’s data is a gutsy thing to do, for any storage executive or administrator. And this decision usually is not made in a vacuum. Virtually all companies that outsource their storage apparatus must have either the CEO, president or a senior vice president…

  • Symantec Buys Asset Management Specialist Altiris

    Symantec has added to the slew of technologies it will offer as part of its unified security architecture, announcing a deal on Jan. 29 to acquire endpoint management specialist Altiris for approximately $830 million in cash. Altiris, of Lindon, Utah, specializes in software used by enterprises to manage and service endpoint devices, including PCs, laptops…

  • Intel Takes Wraps Off 45-nm Penryn

    Intel unveiled details of its next-generation Core 2 processors, code-named Penryn, to the technology press on Jan. 25. Just as AMD catches up with Intel by moving to a 65-nm process technology, Intel is poised to push ahead to 45 nm. According to Intel Vice President Steve Smith, Intel’s new 45-nm CPUs are slated to…

  • VARs Disappointed by Microsoft’s Vista Launch Support

    Consumers may be chattering about Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Vista with all the excitement of small children on Christmas Eve, but for VARs the launch seems like it may be more akin to Groundhog Day and at least six more weeks of winter still lie ahead. That’s because in spite of all the marketing…

  • Putting Windows Vista PCs to the Test

    Windows Vista is here. The long-awaited operating system is set to grace current and future builds of desktop and laptop manufacturers as of the end of January. PC Magazine managed to get our hands on some of the first systems releasing with the Vista OS, and what we found may surprise you. For starters, Vista…

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