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  • Microsoft Talks Cloud to Financial Analysts

    Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company’s momentum over the past year. Xbox Kinect, Office 365 and other offerings were all cited as drivers of that momentum. However, executives also emphasized the relative newness of the latest generation of products, as if to suggest…

  • VMware’s Workstation Updated for Multiple VMs

    Virtualization market king VMware on Sept. 14 upgraded its Workstation software package to version 8 by adding no fewer than 50 new features. Workstation, designed for x86 and x86 64-bit servers or PCs, enables users to set up multiple virtual machines on a single physical box. User then can deploy one or more of these…

  • Google ITA Launches Flight Search

    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google. Google Flight Search is the first fruit of Google’s integration of ITA Software, the flight data provider it purchased in April after a protracted antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. The service will compete with popular…

  • HP Talks Future of PSG, Names New Channel Chief

    HP has named a new channel chief to replace the recently promoted Stephen DiFranco and is moving to transition HP’s direct SMB sales efforts into a demand generation program for HP channel partners. Mike Parrottino will move into the job of leading U.S. PSG Channel Sales, effective immediately,  Stephen DiFranco, senior vice president and general…

  • McAfee, Intel Take Security Closer to Silicon

    Intel and McAfee took the first big step to rationalize the technology reason for the marriage between the two companies with a product launch at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) this week that unleashes a hardware-assisted security technology designed to mitigate risks at the sub-operating system level. Called McAfee DeepSAFE, the product was demoed by…

  • Cisco Systems CEO Attacks Competition at Analysts’ Day Event

    Cisco Systems, which for years owned more than 50 percent of the Internet networking gear market but has lost some 10 percent of that market share in the last few years, never had to position itself as aggressive in the marketplace because it was usually in a comfortable first-place position. Today, the company still is…

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