Tag: productivity

  • Office 2010 Slated for Release in First Half 2010

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Microsoft has announced its latest productivity suite, Office 2010, will be released to the public next year after the software giant completes technical previews in the third quarter of 2009. While beta screenshots for Office 2010, code-named Office 14, were leaked in early January, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the productivity suite will not… Read more

  • Productivity Drives Technology Demand, Profitability

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Solution providers expect managed services, software as a service and virtualization to drive increased profits in 2009, while end users are clamoring for more smartphones, wireless devices and increased availability of virtualization technologies. That’s according to the results of the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey, which asked solution providers what they predicted would be… Read more

  • Google`s Grand Channel Designs

    Lawrence Walsh

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    A little more than a decade ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to “organize” all the information online, making it more easily accessible than the hunt-and-peck Internet of the late 1990s. To support their grand Internet index, the Stanford grads developed an advertising business that had disrupted all of the traditional media models… Read more

  • Belt Tightening: Simple Cost-Saving Tips

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    The news out this week is grim. Unemployment has reached a 25-year high and more layoffs are in the offing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average—the barometer of our economic health—continues to drop at record rates. Retailers are reporting the first declines in 20 years and there is news of the three big automakers consolidating to… Read more

  • Chambers Tells VARs to Catch New Tech Wave

    Sara Driscoll

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    It was no coincidence that Cisco chose Hawaii—famed as a surfer’s paradise—as the place for its Partner Summit this year, if John Chambers’ keynote is anything to go by. The Cisco president and CEO’s April 9 keynote in Honolulu was dominated by collaboration and new technologies and in particular what he called the “new wave… Read more

  • IBM, Cray Win DARPA Supercomputer Contracts

    IBM, Cray Win DARPA Supercomputer Contracts

    Chris Preimesberger

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    IBM, the world’s largest IT company, and supercomputer builder Cray were notified Nov. 21 that they will be awarded nearly $500 million in contracts by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build next-generation, multi-petaflop computers. Reuters reported that as Wall Street heard the news Cray’s stock shares rose 31 percent to $13.04 on… Read more