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Survey: Most CEOs Expect Drastic Business Changes Soon
Sixty-five percent of CEOs polled by a recent IBM survey said they expect competitive and market forces to radically change their businesses in two years, driving them to innovate or “go extinct.” The CEOs, among 765 questioned individually for the second IBM Global CEO Study, said pressures from new competitors, emerging markets and new business…
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Apple Plugs Mac OS X Worm Hole
With the security of its flagship Mac OS X operating system facing intense scrutiny, Apple Computer on March 1 released a software update with patches for more than a dozen security vulnerabilities. The first security update from Apple for 2006 comes less than a week after the release of exploit code for Safari browser flaw…
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Why Windows Vista Will Suck
Oh! My aching head. When I first saw ExtremeTech’s article “Why Windows Vista Won’t Suck,” I thought: “Aha, sarcasm.” Nope. I was wrong. They really were saying that Vista is pretty good. Oh, please. First, let me say, I’ve been running Vista myself for quite some time. Next to me at this very moment is…
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Cisco Snags Scientific Atlanta, Lays Out Vision for IP TV
Cisco Systems on Feb. 28 outlined its vision for Scientific Atlanta a day after its mega-acquisition closed, but product integration roadmaps won’t follow for another couple of months. In one of its largest acquisitions to date, Cisco is going after service providers who are ultimately building next-generation applications for the consumer market. The traditional enterprise…
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More Windows Live Services in the Microsoft Pipeline
Microsoft has turned on the Windows Live tap and software services are starting to really flow from it. On Feb. 28, Microsoft announced the start of the U.S. beta of Windows Live Expo, its online classified service, code-named Fremont. Earlier this month, Microsoft had provided some testers with a private beta release of Windows Live…
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Level Platforms Seeks to Accelerate Adoption of Managed Services
Once a service provider converts one customer to the managed services model, it might as well convert them all. At least, that’s how the management at Level Platforms sees it. On Feb. 28, the company released Managed Workplace 5.0, a new version of its managed services platform that Level Platforms hopes will accelerate adoption of…
