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Palm’s Potential Acquirers Include HTC, Microsoft, Dell and Lenovo
Smartphone maker Palm is seeking bids to be purchased, Reuters reported April 11, citing people familiar with the situation. According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, HTC, which makes Google’s Nexus One phone, among other popular models, is said to be open to discussions about acquiring Palm. Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners have reportedly…
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Small Business to Get Free Help with Broadband
SCORE, an organization that bills itself the “Counselor to America’s Small Business,” announced that The SCORE Foundation rallied corporate partners for a combined donation of $1.1 million to jump-start a nationwide public/private consortium to help small businesses compete in the Internet age by using broadband technologies. The consortium will offer training, tools and resources, all…
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Federal IT Spending to Rise
Professional services, systems integrators, security professionals, health IT software companies and large-scale technology service providers all stand to benefit from information technology spending in fiscal year 2011 and beyond, according to upcoming annual research on government spending. The latest figures on IT budget requests for the federal government are $79.4 billion for fiscal year 2011,…
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 Launched
Microsoft kicked off a global launch for the latest major release of its flagship application development environment, Visual Studio 2010, with more than 150 developer-focused events around the world on April 12. In addition to Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010), Microsoft announced the release of the .NET Framework 4 and said its Silverlight 4 rich Internet…
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Malicious Ad Targets Facebook ‘Farm Town’ Players
Users of the popular Facebook game “Farm Town” were hit with a rogue antivirus scam tied to malicious advertising. SlashKey, the developer behind “Farm Town,” issued a warning about the malware scam, which drew hundreds of comments to its user forum. According to findings posted here by researcher Sandi Hardmeier, the ad in question was…
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Capitalizing on the Apple iPad and Other Tablet Computers
Capitalizing on the Apple iPad and Other Tablet Computers Buzz for TabletsAs consumers are lining up at Apple stores to buy iPads, a new report suggests that the heightened awareness of tablet devices could payoff for resellers who play their cards right. The key, says the report from Research and Markets, entitled, “The Rise of…
