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Juniper Gets Execs from Cisco, Microsoft
Juniper Networks is bulking up its marketing and channel prowess by raiding the executive ranks of rivals Cisco Systems and Microsoft. Juniper last week announced that two former Microsoft officials made the jump to help the networking company build up its enterprise marketing and global partnership capabilities. In between those announcements, Juniper officials said a…
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IBM Targets Midmarket with Virtual Desktop for Smart Business
IBM launched its Virtual Desktop for Smart Business solution on Monday for providers whose clients want anytime, anywhere secure access to desktops—including from mobile devices such as tablets, notebooks and thin clients. Virtual Desktop for Smart Business allows users to manage and host Windows or Linux desktops centrally. It can streamline software updates and application…
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Toshiba Tablet with Android 3.0 Gets Swappable Battery
Toshiba launched a preview Website of its forthcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, a device geared to provide features Apple’s iPad lacks such as dual cameras, a swappable battery, several data ports and Flash support. eWEEK got a sneak peek of the tablet three weeks ago at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, but few specs were…
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HP Neoview Data Warehousing Platform Headed into Sunset
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:) has decided to stop selling its Neoview data warehousing platform, after it failed to attract enough customers, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Neoview — launched in 2007 under former HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd — will no longer be offered to new customers,…
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Google’s Outgoing CEO Gets $100M Pay Day
(Reuters) – Google Inc is set to give Eric Schmidt a $100 million equity award as he hands over the chief executive officer job to co-founder Larry Page. The award, which will include stock units and options will vest over four years and is Schmidt’s first such award since joining the company in 2001, a…
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Lenovo, NEC Eyeing Joint Venture on PCs?
(Reuters) – China’s Lenovo Group is in talks with Japan’s NEC Corp for a joint venture in personal computers, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in a deal that would help them take on larger global rivals. The Nikkei business daily said Lenovo planned to take a controlling interest in NEC’s PC…