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Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
ORLANDO, Fla.—Windows Live is the most important initiative at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, told the audience at the annual Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 10. “We’re in a transition to software that is live. It will be click to run, like a Web site,” said Ballmer. “We believe in evolving to…
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Symantec Debuts Products, New Vision for Corporate Security
Symantec took the wraps off a series of new products and services on Oct. 10, as the security software market leader outlined its latest approach to helping enterprises juggle the litany of technologies necessary to protect themselves from IT-based attacks. At a meeting with customers and analysts in New York, Symantec Chief Executive John Thompson…
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Radware Extends App Accelerator to XML
Application delivery controller vendor Radware on Oct. 9 will announce that it is teaming up with Forum Systems to integrate XML acceleration and security functions into Radware’s AppXcel appliances. The result of their joint development effort will be an optional software module for the AppXcel appliances that combines Forum Systems’ XML acceleration, policy-based XML message…
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How to Get—and Keep—Top IT Talent
Analysis: As baby boomers prepare to retire, companies are scrambling to fill the gaping hole they will leave in the workplace. The issue is particularly important in IT, which is already battling a skills shortage. In the coming years, talent recruitment and retention will be a top priority. So what are you doing about it…
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Nokia Empowers Partners with New Channel Program
Nokia on Oct. 9 unveiled its Nokia for Business Channel Program, designed to encourage cross-track sales of the mobile communications developers’ array of mobility, security and voice solutions. Under the program, Nokia’s group of about 1,000 partners are encouraged to participate in multiple technology tracks, said John Mason, vice president of global channels and operations,…
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Salesforce.com to Debut New SAAS Development Platform
It aint AppExchange 2.0. It’s Apex 1.0. And it very much has the potential to change the way on-demand applications are built and deployed. Salesforce.com will announce Apex, a new Java-based application development language and platform on Oct. 9 at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The company has essentially taken its internal development…
