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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…
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Intel: Quad-Core Is Just the Beginning
SAN FRANCISCO—Quad-core processors are only the beginning of what a revitalized Intel has to offer, the company’s top executives said here Sept. 26. The chip maker will deliver in November its first quad-core processors—chips that incorporate four processors each—for both desktops and servers, said CEO Paul Otellini here, in an opening keynote speech at the…
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Workers Dissatisfied with Workplace Communication
Only 33 percent of employees are satisfied with the quantity and quality of communications from their employers, according to a study released Sept. 25 by New York-based Jack Morton Worldwide, a global experimental marketing agency. “The best way to build a business is from the inside out,” said Josh McCall, CEO of Jack Morton. “Companies…
