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Microsoft Pushes 3rd-Party Apps Through Mobile Marketplace
In conjunction with the Windows Mobile 6.5 launch today, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile went live today, providing software developers a new distribution channel for consumer and business applications running on Windows Mobile. The marketplace is preloaded on all smart phones running Windows Mobile 6.5. All applications are certified by Microsoft to run on Windows…
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HP Channel Chief Adrian Jones Heads to New Role
HP’s brass is looking at both internal and external candidates to fill the channel chief position soon to be left vacated by Adrian Jones, as he takes on a new role with the company starting Nov. 1. Jones, who has served as vice president and general manager of the Solution Partners Organization, Americas since early…
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HP Doubles Down Data Center Bet
HP’s latest enhancements to its PartnerONE program are aimed at increasing its focus on data center solutions through its enterprise channel partners. Since Cisco announced its unified computing system strategy earlier this year, HP’s focus on its data center and ProCurve networking solutions channel partners has been a top priority. The most recent announcements include…
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Private Cloud Computing Gathers Momentum
External cloud providers have garnered much of the publicity of the initial wave of cloud computing. But that is not necessarily where the market is headed. While cloud computing services come in many forms, IT analyst firm Gartner predicts that through 2012, IT organizations will invest more in private cloud services than in offerings from…
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Five Ways to Steal a Half-Billion-Dollar Account
Last week, Falls Church, Va.-based CSC officially snatched the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Information Technology Infrastructure Program (ITIP) services contract from incumbent Unisys by closing on a five-year deal potentially worth $493 million. So how’d CSC do it? That’s the burning question asked by many a channel provider gone a bit green over someone else…
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Microsoft HotMail Accounts Exposed
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Monday that passwords belonging to some users of its Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but had since been taken down. The company did not say how many users were affected, but some reports suggested that passwords to more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. "We are…