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Revenue Up, Profit Down at Symantec
Data protection and software management provider Symantec on May 11 reported a 9 percent decline in its profits for its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings, but the company still bettered Wall Street analysts’ projections. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes the popular Norton Security Suite cleared $168 million (22 cents per share) for the three-month period…
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10 Things Steve Jobs Would Do If He Were Leading HP
10 Things Steve Jobs Would Do If He Were Leading HP 1. He’d Double Down On WebOSHP’s decision to acquire Palm was a good one. With that acquisition, the company was able to take over Palm and thus, establish itself as another software provider, thanks to WebOS. Given Steve Jobs’ history with Mac OS X,…
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Microsoft Skype Deal Skype Means Business
Microsoft Skype Deal Skype Means Business Sept. 2010: Skype makes clear its intentions to target business by announcing a new channel partner program for VARs and systems integrators, designed to provide training, sales and marketing collateral to qualified partners. Skype still sells its products direct to customers, but channel partners sell their own services such…
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CA, Microsoft Partner on New Cloud Platform
CA Technologies and Microsoft, which have been partners on various products for two decades, revealed May 10 they have signed an agreement to partner on a new cloud platform. Starting in the second half of 2011, CA’s ARCserve SAAS (software-as-a-service) data protection offering will use Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform as its home base. The…
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HP FlexNetwork to Undercut Cisco on Price
HP (NYSE:HPQ) is tying together existing, new and future products into a new networking architecture the company is called FlexNetwork, and pricing it lower than comparable products from Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO). During the press conference for the launch of FlexNetwork, HP had some tough words for networking giant Cisco, which positioned its own networking architectures recently…
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Dell Launches New Virtualized Data Center Server, Networking Products
Dell is rolling out a host of server, networking and storage offerings designed to give businesses more tools as they look to increase their virtualization capabilities. Key among the new products is the PowerEdge M915, which is powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron 6100 Series processors, which offer up to 12 cores. The core count…
