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Bill Gates Quits Facebook — But Should You?
Here’s one of those cautionary tales about social networking: Too much can be WAY too much, even for techno-god Bill Gates. Gates quit Facebook this week. He said he’s been just deluged by invites and messages and can’t spend the time to figure out if these are people he even knows. Sound familiar? We all…
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Dissecting Microsoft’s First Bad Year
Dissecting Microsoft’s First Bad Year by Carolyn April No Title Despite a humbling the likes of which it’s never before seen, Microsoft and its channel partners have three reasons for optimism in 2010: The pending product releases, starting in October with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010. But first, read on as…
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Palm Lobs Another Volley at Apple in Smartphone War
(Reuters) — Palm Inc has fired another volley at Apple Inc in their smartphone war, as the two rivals tussle over whether iTunes should be compatible with Palm’s new Pre smartphone. Palm, whose executive ranks include former Apple brass, released a software update for the Pre this week that allows it to sync again with…
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Spiceworks Claims World’s Largest MSP Community
The world’s largest community of managed service providers doesn’t belong to a major IT vendor or any of the well-established remote monitoring and management software providers. Rather, the crown goes to Spiceworks, a provider of free, Web-based network management tools. At least that’s what Spiceworks claims in a press release issued today. Austin, Texas-based…
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Catching Channel the M&A Wave
You cannot cut your way to success, especially in a recession. Solution providers are increasingly looking at mergers and acquisitions as a means growing their base for the anticipated economic recovery. And there plenty of opportunities for growth through M&A, as demonstrated by a slew of activity in the last week. SLPowers, a Florida-based solution…
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Virtualization Explained — Even to Your Mother
Looking for a way to explain virtualization so that even your mother can understand what it’s all about and what the benefits are? Legal Technology Solutions partner Steve Stern has come up with a pretty good analogy to explain a complex topic to an audience unfamiliar with technology, and elaborates in his blog. Stern’s analogy…
