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Report: Job Benefits Burden to Fall on Workers
2007 will bring greater expectations of responsibility and self-financing of benefits for U.S. workers, according to a report issued Dec. 28 by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a Washington-based global consulting firm. Among the health care benefit trends predicted in the report is an increased focus on HDHPs (high-deductible health care plans) coupled with reimbursement arrangements such… Read more
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Level 3 Communications to Buy SAVVIS CDN Division
Categories: News and TrendsLevel 3 Communications has announced plans to purchase the Content Delivery Network services business of SAVVIS for $135 million in cash, a move meant to enable the company to provide more rich media services via the Web. SAVVIS’s CDN business, which has approximately 50 employees, made about $15 million in revenue in 2006, as of… Read more
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Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft
Categories: News and TrendsAs Microsoft heads into 2007, the company faces a number of ongoing threats and challenges, most notably getting its large installed base to upgrade to the latest wave of products. “The larger the installed base gets, the harder it is to move, and the longer it takes to transition,” Al Gillen, vice president of research… Read more
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Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007
Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on Dec. 26. While more than one-third (36 percent) of employers expect to add 10 employees or fewer in 2007, 29 percent intend to hire more than 50, and 20 percent plan… Read more
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Be Resolved to Do Better Marketing
Categories: News and TrendsIt’s that time of year where everyone makes some sort of New Year’s resolution about improving their business only to see it go by the wayside inside of the first two weeks of January. Given the fact that many solution provider companies are run by people who turned a technology avocation into an actual vocation,… Read more
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Who Are You Surfin? New Ways to Be Cert’in
Categories: News and TrendsIt seems like every time people get together to do something about a security problem, other people get together to whine about it. Now they’re whining about EV (Extended Validation) SSL Certificates: EV certs are a scheme by Microsoft to screw other browser vendors. They’re an attempt by certificate authorities to gouge Web site operators.… Read more