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Chipmaker Forecasts Disappoint, Fueling Fears of Sluggish Economy
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Chip makers National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM) and Texas Instruments Inc (NYSE:TXN) on Thursday issued quarterly financial targets that stoked investors’ worries about a sluggish economy. Both companies cited weak demand for personal computers and other devices that use microchips and National Semiconductor said consumers were not spending as much…
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Apparent Networks’ AppView Modules Track App-Specific Performance
Apparent Networks has released the first in a series of application-specific performance management and monitoring modules. AppView Voice was designed to bring Apparent Networks’ monitoring and management capabilities to specific applications for pre-assessment and continuous monitoring purposes, which will give the company’s channel partners an extra ongoing revenue stream. The AppView launch follows five months…
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Cisco, Citrix Offer Desktop Virtualization Solution
Cisco and Citrix Systems announced a partnership to deliver a combined desktop virtualization solution that allows businesses to deploy high-definition virtual desktops and applications to all users across the enterprise. The Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop combines Cisco unified computing and Citrix desktop virtualization technologies, including FlexCast and HDX, to deliver a scalable…
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Who is Right, HP or Oracle?
Image by plαdys via Flickr It’s getting nasty out there. Between Oracle’s Larry Ellison threatening to cut business ties to HP, and HP and Dell’s extended bidding war to buy 3PAR, plus a brutal battle in the field between players such as HP and Cisco to win highly-coveted data center business, big vendors are increasingly…
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Apple Software Developers Get Relaxed Guidelines
NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) said on Thursday it is relaxing strict guidelines on how software developers create applications for its popular App Store service even as it faces competition from Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the wireless sector. Apple plans to ease restrictions on which development tools can be used to…
