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Shopping for a New Computer or Laptop? Check Out These Reliability Ratings First
Now that Microsoft Windows 7 has been tried and tested, are you and your customers finally getting ready to upgrade your personal desktop and laptop computers? Should you choose Apple, Asus, IBM/Lenovo, Dell or HP? What about Sony or Toshiba? Before you make your decision, check out the results of some recent computer reliability reports.…
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Symantec’s Strong Fourth Quarter
Symantec’s revenue jumped three percent to $1.53 billion for the quarter, reaching $6.01 billion for the fiscal year. The strongest growth occurred in the consumer segment, which represented 31 percent of total revenue and grew nine percent year-over-year. The security and compliance segment increased two percent, and Symantec’s storage and server management business declined one…
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Who controls IT? The CFO
Is IT management at the top of the corporate ladder losing its luster? Not completely, but was it ever really there? Call it business alignment or bottom-line buffering, a good lot of CIOs do not have the direct ears of CEOs. A chunk of technology leaders in enterprise companies report to CFOs (42 percent), according…
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Is the Economy Improving?
Just over a third of nearly 4,000 workers believe the economy is improving and just over 40 percent are confident they can find a new job, according to a study conducted by staffing firm Technisource. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company tracks IT worker confidence and reported last week that it is slightly up at an…
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Skype Disrupts Enterprise Video Collaboration
Skype reportedly will be rolling out a new function that will let up to five people participate in a video call at the same time, a capability that will let it counter the video conferencing capabilities of such vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. In an interview with the Associated Press, Neil Stevens, general manager…