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CIOs Will Spend More on the Channel, Less on Staff in 2007
Spending on internal IT staff remains the largest part of IT budgets, but CIOs expect to shift more resources from staff to consultants and integrators in 2007, according to the quarterly CIO User Survey released Jan. 9 by Merrill Lynch. CIOs expect to spend an average of 11 percent of their IT budget on external…
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Symantec: Vista UAC Is Still Too Chatty
In positioning itself to provide aftermarket applications for Microsoft’s Vista operating system, anti-virus market leader Symantec is highlighting some shortcomings it believes to exist in the new platform’s own security tools. Among the conclusions of a presentation delivered to the media during the week of Jan. 8 by Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan Trollope…
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IBM, HP, Lead the Patent Pack in 2006
IFI Patent Intelligence, a patent assignee company that has been around since 1956, announced Jan. 11 its annual list of the top 25 U.S. patent winners. IFI assembles its listing using information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and from CLAIMS, a text-searchable database of U.S. patents in the world. Darlene Slaughter, general manager…
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Week in Review: Dubious iPhone, Thin CES, Teradata Rocks
The big tech news of this week is obvious to anyone. David Beckham, 31, leaving Real Madrid for a $250 million contract to head to La-La Land to kick the soccer ball for the LA Galaxy tops my list. Can Beckham turn the stumbling Major League Soccer franchise from a hopeful to a real money…
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SIIA Report Gives High Marks to Offshore Development
The Software & Information Industry Association has published a report on the state of global software development, showing that a vast majority of companies that offshore their development operations report positive impacts on revenues and profits. For its Global Software Development Survey Report, the Washington D.C.-based SIIA teamed up with Symphony Services, a global product…
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SGI, Microsoft Ink Server Partnership
Silicon Graphics, which in October emerged from bankruptcy and staff cuts in October, is now teaming up with Microsoft to offer the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating system in its Xeon-based servers. The two companies are scheduled to announce the new agreement Jan. 11. SGI, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will start offering the 64-bit…
