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EU Hits Microsoft With Record Fine
Microsoft Corp. has been hit by record fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) by the European Union for abusing its dominant market position with Windows. The company has also been ordered to effectively offer to manufacturers a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. The previous highest fine in EU history was 462 million…
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Can India Plug Its Brain Drain?
For years, the India Institutes of Technology (IIT) fed the executive ranks of US technology vendors, integrators, and consultancies with its graduates. However, the Institutes–modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–had been established to benefit India’s future. Now, a business incubator established by IIT Bombay is working to check the brain drain by fostering a…
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Branding and Product Positioning for the Channel Provider
I recently listened to a common type of miscommunication between channel partners and a vendor about marketing. The partners told their vendor that they wanted branding. The vendor obliged by creating a Marcom campaign that none of the partners used. Both complained to me that the other was unreasonable. Since both the vendor and the…
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Cisco Turns IP Video Work into Enterprise Offering
Cisco Systems Inc. has brought together eight years of its work on internal streaming media and video on demand in a new product offering for enterprises wanting to broadcast video over IP networks. The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday launched its Business Video Solution. The package combines Cisco’s routers and switches for managing IP…
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IBM Ramps Up SMBs’ Linux Incentives
IBM continues to ramp up its efforts to bring Linux to SMBs and to migrate Windows users to Linux. The company last week doubled to $10,000 the incentives for its partners that help small and midsize businesses implement Linux solutions. IBM officials said such efforts ease implementations and lower startup costs. “Half of all Linux…
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HP, IBM Lines Focus on SMBs
Major oems Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM are offering upgraded systems, software and services targeted at the increasingly coveted small- and midsize-business customers. HP this week will roll out the second round of offerings in its Smart Office campaign targeting SMBs. The products are part of a $750 million development effort announced in the fall. At…
