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IBM Opens Innovations Centers to VC-Backed Startups
IBM is hoping to drive more innovation out of partners by throwing more resources at the ISVs that venture capital firms say are promising. IBM will provide venture capital firms and the ISVs they back with added technical, sales and marketing support delivered at its 32 Innovation Centers worldwide to speed solutions to market and…
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Tech Data Launches Client Computing Business Unit
Tech Data has launched a new unit that the distributor says will help its VARs develop new systems market solutions for small and midsize businesses. The new unit, called Client Computing, will fall under Tech Data’s Systems Division. The new unit will combine new and existing resources from the company, a Tech Data spokesperson said.…
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Cisco Ties Video Streaming to the Network
Cisco Systems will bring its heft and credibility to the video streaming and video-on-demand market on Sept. 26 when it launches its digital media system. The new system, which includes a line of digital media encoders, a digital media manager and a video portal, is the first fully integrated offering from a well-known brand in…
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Greenspan: Dump SarbOx
BOSTON—The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is doing more harm than good and must be overhauled, Alan Greenspan told a technology audience here. “One good thing: Sarbox requires the CEO to certify the financial statement. That’s new and that’s helpful. Having said that, the rest we could do without. Section 404 is a nightmare.” Greenspan’s remarks came at…
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack Beta
Microsoft released the beta version of the upgrade to its developer tools platform, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, on its Microsoft Connect Web site on Sept. 26. In a blog post on the same day, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said the Service Pack is in direct response to…
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Microsoft: Research Helps Protect Our Future
REDMOND—The reason Microsoft Research exists is so that Microsoft will still be here in 15 years time, Rick Rashid, the senior vice president of research, said here on Sept. 26. “I hope that fifteen years from now there will still be the same vibrant environment we have now, where we have been able to build…
