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HP: Web-Enabled Printers to Get Palm webOS
Hewlett-Packard has plans for Palm’s webOS mobile operating system that go well beyond smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Web-connected printers. During a conference call with analysts and reporters to announce fiscal second-quarter 2010 results May 18, HP President and CEO Mark Hurd said that while he certainly wants to grow Palm’s smartphone business, the…
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IBM Says No Competitive Threat from Dell, HP, Xerox Gobbling Up IT Services Firms
(Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) feels no threat from a series of acquisitions by competitors and has no plans for a major strategy change even as it spends more on mergers and acquisitions, a senior company executive said on Friday. Asked about acquisitions like Hewlett-Packard Co’s (NYSE:HPQ) $13.2 billion purchase of EDS, Adam Klaber, general manager…
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Systems Engineers in Demand, Command High Pay
You may not have noticed, but systems engineering is a promising career choice. In 2009, it was rated No. 1 out of the Top 50 careers in terms of salary and growth prospects over the next 10 years by CNNMoney.com and Payscale.com. Right now in May 2010, the average wage for a systems engineer is…
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Microsoft Shoots Back on Google Docs Microsoft Office Collaboration
Microsoft’s online product director May 11 dispelled the notion that Google Docs improves Microsoft Office, and demonstrated how moving files created with Office results in the loss of data fidelity. Google has been pitching migrations from Microsoft Office, which has more than 500 million seats worldwide, to Google Docs, the company’s Web-based document, presentation and…
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Vidyo HD Video Conferencing System Caters to Medical Uses
Video collaboration vendor Vidyo aims to make it easier for health care providers and organizations to use telepresence technology in their day-to-day work. Vidyo is rolling out VidyoHealth, a telemedicine video conferencing product that enables health care providers to user the Internet and other general-purpose IP networks to communicate with other doctors and with patients.…