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IT Decision Makers Top 2010 Priority: Managing Costs
IT organizations say they are more optimistic about their prospects for 2010, but when it comes to spending money, the refrain might as well be: “You first.” Managing costs ranked as the top focus of IT organizations in 2010, ahead of improving customer service, according to the third annual Year-In-Review survey from CDW. About half…
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Business Opportunities and Threats in the Technology Cloud
Cloud computing threatens to disrupt many of the business models around the IT industry as traditional desktops and client computing are transformed into something different. But don’t expect big enterprises to make the move right away. That’s because it’s harder for big companies with their investments in legacy IT to make a quick switch to…
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Handling Deadbeat Cloud Computing Customers
Over dinner last night in Manhattan, my friend Christian Renaud recounted a horror story in mobility: his iPhone service was shut off while he was traveling in Spain and Portugal. The reason wasn’t because he didn’t pay his bill, but rather he had exceeded his data limit – not once, but twice. Renaud is the…
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PC Build Forecast Tempered
Just when you thought it was safe to let yourself bask in the hope of an economic recovery, think again. After raising its month-ago forecast of PC builds to one that predicted 5 percent growth quarter over quarter, FBR Research is now lowering that forecast, predicting instead a decline of 1.5 percent in PC builds…
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Microsoft CFO Liddell to Leave Company
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. Liddell, 51, has been CFO at the world’s largest software company since May 2005, after joining from paper and packaging maker International Paper…
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Apple Smoking Policy Has VARs Fuming
Word of Apple and its authorized maintenance partners’ denial of service to smokers broke when the Consumerist reported two instances where Mac users were denied service because they smoked cigarettes. A commenter on this blog said they were a victim of this “unwritten” policy, too, and it wasn’t recent. “You better believe it. They pulled…
