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Tandberg Completes Exabyte Acquisition, Joins Tape Storage Alliance
Digital tape storage maker Tandberg Data finalized its $28 million acquisition of Exabyte Jan. 3 and announced that it has integrated its former competitor’s VXA-2, VXA-172 and VXA-320 products into its tape drive and tape automation portfolio. Due to the Aug. 30, 2006, acquisition of essentially all of Exabyte’s intellectual property, Oslo, Norway-based Tandberg also…
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New Year Finds Nervous IT Workforce
IT worker confidence slid in December, with a growing number of tech professionals anticipating layoffs, according to a report released Jan. 3 by Hudson, a staffing firm based in New York. Decrease in job satisfaction and a substantial rise in expected layoffs prompted a six point decrease in Hudson’s IT professional index from the month…
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Source: Intel’s Core 2 Quad to Debut at CES
Looking to capitalize on its first-to-market quad-core processors, Intel plans to announce its Core 2 Quad for commercial PCs at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, an industry source told eWEEK. The latest quad-core offering from the Santa Clara, Calif., company will join five other quad-core chips that Intel has already…
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Survey: Talent Management a Top Concern
Finding, developing and keeping talent are among the top concerns for HR executives for 2007, according to a survey released by ORC Worldwide, a New York-based provider of human resource management consulting and data services. Nearly 62 percent of respondents said that the most pressing strategic issues they will face in 2007 would fall into…
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Linux Group to Simplify Software Installation
Installing a new application on Linux can be challenging, even for experts. Now, the LSB (Linux Standard Base) project and its parent organization, the FSG (Free Standards Group), have a plan for how to make it easier for both users and developers. Last month, key people in the Linux software packaging world and ISVs got…
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EIA Promotes the Latest in Recycling: Electronics
When consumers are done with their electronic products, most of them will either throw the particular device away or put it in a storage room in their house where it will most likely never be touched again. To give consumers more options when it comes to disposing of their electronic devices, the EIA (Electronic Industries…
