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Smartphones Need Smarter Security
The next great battle in the cellphone wars is coming with this month’s release of the Apple iPhone 3G and the Palm Pre. This devices are more than just cellphones, more than just smartphones; they are truly handheld platforms that have enough processing power and memory to start emulating heavy clients. And that’s potentially a…
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Cisco Unveils New SMB-Focused Products
At its annual Partner Summit this week, Cisco doubled down on its efforts to expand its presence in the SMB market by introducing new products and incentives to help partners increase sales and profitability. About a year ago, Cisco began building a sales, marketing, manufacturing and support infrastructure designed to target the needs of solution…
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Microsoft’s Ozzie Sees Lower Margins from Cloud
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services — broadly known as cloud computing — would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company’s existing software business. "The margins on services are not like the margins on software, so it (cloud computing) will increase our…
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Who’s Watching Your Online Reputation?
There has been a lot of discussion about how businesses and individuals need to participate in social networks to get their messages out, but there is little discussion related to managing online reputation. Vehicles such as Angies List, Facebook and YouTube are prime locations for your customers to share their positive or negative experiences related…
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Cisco’s New Servers: What’s Different from the Rest?
Given the precipitous drop in net-new server sales during this recession, Cisco’s launch into the entry-level rack mount space this week seems somewhat counterintuitive. Especially at the commodity level, a market segment that doesn’t offer much margin and is already saturated with volume-based products from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Indeed, IBM has begun moving away…
