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Data Warehousing Leader Teradata to Split from NCR
Data warehousing provider Teradata, which has operated as part of ATM-making giant NCR since 1995, announced Jan. 8 that it will split off into its own corporate entity, in a transaction the company expects to take six to nine months to complete. The tax-free spinoff, which sent NCR’s shares up as high as 7 percent…
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First of Four Vista Certifications Released
Transcender, an Atlanta-based provider of exam preparation software and part of Kaplan IT Learning announced Jan. 8 the release of practice exam materials for Vista certification, which helps IT professionals configure, support and troubleshoot Microsoft’s new operating system. This is the first exam that Microsoft has come out with in the Vista series, and there…
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When Product Cycles Collide
When I heard about the Ford/Microsoft announcement at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, my first thought was the radically different time frames of the consumer auto and the consumer electronics markets. I’ve never kept a new car for less than six years, and my typical tenure for a car that I buy…
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HP’s Touch-Screen All-in-One PC to Debut at CES
This year may well herald the rise of the touch-screen. We’ve seen previous attempts at integrating a touch-screen in an all-in-one PC, notably from Pelham Sloane and MPC, but those systems were more suited to dedicated duties like home automation, store kiosks or receptionist terminals. Now Hewlett-Packard brings the touch-screen concept back to all-in-one desktops…
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Hosted IT: When Simple Won’t Do
Amazon.com inc.’s utility pricing and on-demand services may change the hosting game, but some applications continue to demand more of a hothouse environment. “There is no way to apply the fast-food hosting model to really complex custom applications,” says Daniel Golding, a vice president at Tier 1 Research. At the high end of the market,…
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CES 2007 Unveiled
LAS VEGAS—Amid steaming plates of international dishes, celebrity legend impersonators, and the somehow always orange-light-ambiance of Las Vegas ballrooms, hundreds of journalists got their first taste of the world’s largest consumer technology show, Consumer Electronics Show 2007, at CES Unveiled. There were nearly 80 vendors crammed into the Marco Polo Ballroom at the Sands Convention…
