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  • Microsoft Services Chief Resigns

    Rick Devenuti, Microsoft’s services chief, announced his retirement Oct. 11. Devenuti, senior vice president, Microsoft Enterprise Services & IT since 2003, is stepping down to spend more time with his family and focus on “his next challenge,” Microsoft officials said in a statement. He is 48 years old. No successor has been identified, but one…

  • Technology: Simulated Surgery

    There’s one word no one wants to hear in the operating room: “Oops!” It’s a chilling thought, but surgical students have limited opportunities to practice before they enter their field. Traditionally, they hone their skills on cadavers or animals, neither of which fully prepares them for the real-world operating room. Now, a research team at…

  • Ingram Micro to Distribute Bio-Optronics Solutions

    Ingram Micro, the world’s largest distributor, has signed an agreement to distribute solutions made by Bio-Optronics, a Rochester, N.Y., software company. Specifically, Ingram, based in Santa Ana, Calif., will distribute the company’s Dynamic Hospital Suite solutions, which will help give the distributor and its VARs an expanded set of products to offer in the vertical…

  • Tech Worker Wages See a Bump in Q3

    Hourly wages for skilled tech workers in the third quarter of 2006 improved over the year before, according to the Yoh Index of Technology wages released Oct. 11 by the Philadelphia-based talent management company. Wages increased .1 percent in July, 1.4 percent in August and finally 2.4 percent in September. The Index ended the third…

  • Ballmer: A New Software Era Begins

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  • Cisco’s Chambers: Virtualization ‘Inevitable’

    ORLANDO, Fla.—Virtualization will spur the next wave of networking, Cisco President and CEO John Chambers told a keynote audience at the Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 11. “I’m very proud to be a plumber. Pipes will get bigger, faster and more intelligent. We believe that virtualization is going to happen,” Chambers said,…

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