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Watson Exits Microsoft Channel Chief Post
Allison Watson, Microsoft’s longtime global channel leader, will hand over the reins to the massive partner program to Jon Roskill at next month’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. In a surprise announcement made this afternoon, Microsoft said Watson was assuming a new role, corporate vice president of Business & Marketing Organization in the U.S.,…
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Salesforce.com Seeks to Move Chatter Beyond Sales, Marketing
Salesforce.com wants to put Chatter, its new social collaboration platform, into the hands of every corporate user who needs to work with customers or with co-workers to solve problems, provide service or share ideas. Salesforce.com is offering Chatter-only licenses for customers that are already using the Salesforce.com suite so that companies can deploy the collaboration…
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Opt-Out for Apple’s iAd, Location-Based Tracking Unavoidable
Apple’s updated privacy policy will not let users download any applications from the iTunes store without agreeing to the new terms and conditions. Timed for the launch of the vaunted iPhone 4, iAd lets developers insert advertisements within their applications. Developers keep 60 percent of the proceeds from ads shown; Apple gets the remaining 40…
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Google Android Apps Highly Vulnerable to Viruses, Report Finds
For the first time since its inception, Android based smartphones outsold iPhones in the first part of 2010. Consumers who purchase these smartphones are downloading millions of Android-based applications, and, according to a SMobile Systems analysis of the Android market, putting their personal and professional data at risk. SMobile’s Global Threat Center discovered 20 percent…
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Video Conferencing Vendor Polycom Looking to Buy, Not Be Bought
NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) – Polycom Inc’s (NASDAQ:PLCM) new chief executive said the videoconferencing company was not in any talks with potential buyers, but instead expects to become more active in pursuing acquisitions of its own. Andrew Miller, who was named CEO last month, said the company was interested in buying companies with niche,…