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Microsoft, Polycom, HP Team on Unified Communications
Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications offerings using currently established standards. Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) include Juniper Networks and Logitech, which late last year bought video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. >> Click here to read the…
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Cisco Acquires Consumer Device Design Firm, Moto
Cisco Systems is continuing its push into the consumer space with the acquisition of Moto Development Group, a privately held company with a history of helping create consumer devices, including Cisco’s Flip video camera. Cisco officials said Moto’s 35-member team will complement Cisco’s own consumer business and enhance its product road map. The consumer space…
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Technology Giants HP, IBM Retool Channel Programs in Midmarket Push
As if HP doesn’t have enough on its plate with its escalating war with Cisco (data center), and the multi-billion-dollar 3Com (networking) and Palm (mobility) acquisitions, the company has decided to tackle the $7.5 billion midsize enterprise market . The world’s largest IT vendor is announcing the HP ten.to.one (10,000-1,000 employees) initiative that includes new…
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Google Apps Sweetheart Serena Software Switches Back to Microsoft BPOS
Just a little more than a year after touting its move from Microsoft Exchange to Google Gmail, Serena Software has decided to make the switch back to Microsoft and dump its Google Apps support. Unlike the University of California, Davis, which dumped Gmail over security and privacy concerns earlier this month, Serena’s reason was much…
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HP: Web-Enabled Printers to Get Palm webOS
Hewlett-Packard has plans for Palm’s webOS mobile operating system that go well beyond smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Web-connected printers. During a conference call with analysts and reporters to announce fiscal second-quarter 2010 results May 18, HP President and CEO Mark Hurd said that while he certainly wants to grow Palm’s smartphone business, the…
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IBM Says No Competitive Threat from Dell, HP, Xerox Gobbling Up IT Services Firms
(Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) feels no threat from a series of acquisitions by competitors and has no plans for a major strategy change even as it spends more on mergers and acquisitions, a senior company executive said on Friday. Asked about acquisitions like Hewlett-Packard Co’s (NYSE:HPQ) $13.2 billion purchase of EDS, Adam Klaber, general manager…