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Microsoft’s Upgrade Discount Program Spells Channel Services Dollars
As promised, Microsoft has made deep discounting a critical piece of its full-court press to spark an upgrade cycle for Windows 7 and the forthcoming Office 2010. And partners, for the most part, couldn’t be happier. Microsoft’s latest move, expanding the half-off new licenses deal in its Up-to-Date (UTD) Discount program to an even broader…
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IT Job Seekers Should Focus on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
If you are looking to fill some skills gaps at your business, or if you are one of the many unemployed who lost an IT job during the recession, take heart. While it is unlikely that IT jobs and hiring will return at any great clip in 2010, employers who see a pickup in business…
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Polycom, IBM Join Forces on Videoconferencing
(Reuters) – Polycom Inc said it will work with IBM to introduce videoconferencing services aimed at consumers, competing with Skype and a yet-to-be announced product from Cisco Systems Inc. The two companies plan to unveil a high-definition video conferencing product later this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Polycom said on Monday.…
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Microsoft Patch Will Allow Word Sales to Continue
Microsoft is reportedly pushing a patch through Windows Update to reduce disputed functionality in its widely used Word word-processor application. The patch release comes two weeks after a U.S. appeals court judge upheld a $290 million patent infringement judgment to Canada-based software firm i4i Ltd. The lower-court ruling found that advanced XML functions in Word…
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IBM Global Financing Lends a Hand on Electronic Medical Records
One of the biggest challenges for channel partners looking to help customers take advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – also known as the economic stimulus package – has been to find EMR vendors who work with the channel. There’s also been a gap between when the solutions must be implemented and when…
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IBM Reaffirms Acquisition Strategy with Lombardi
IBM announced its intention to acquire yet another software provider, Austin, Texas-based Lombardi, in a bid to bump-up its business process management capabilities and solidify its leadership in the middleware market. Like ILOG, which it acquired last year, IBM intends to fold Lombardi’s department-level BPM under the WebSphere umbrella, competitively positioning Big Blue and its…