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Cisco Overhauls Router Family, Touts $10 Billion Market
Cisco on Tuesday overhauled its Integrated Services Routers (ISR G2) family for the first time since the flagship products were launched five years ago. The second-generation routers have been rearchitected to address the network demands associated with the expansion of video and on-demand computing services, as well as the increase in branch offices. For channel…
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IBM Global Financing Offers Credit Deals
IBM Global Financing has expanded its credit offers with a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for IBM software purchases—an offer that comes just as overall credit markets may be starting to free up again. The financing arm of technology giant IBM says that the 90-day payment deferment is available on eligible…
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Windows Start to Seven
Windows Start to Seven No Title Under pressure to compete against Apple’s Mac GUI, Microsoft developed and released Windows 1.0. It wasn’t a true operating system, but rather a navigation extension to MS-DOS. Version 2.0 was slightly more palatable to users, which caused Apple to sue for patent infringement. The market didn’t accept the…
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IBM Executive on Leave After Insider Trading Arrest
NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM placed senior executive Robert Moffat on leave of absence after he was arrested in the largest ever hedge fund insider-trading scheme. Moffat, senior vice president and head of International Business Machines Corp.’s systems and technology group, is being charged with passing on insider information to a hedge fund. He had…
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Microsoft Calls for Trade Rules Governing Software Services
By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Countries need to forge new trade rules governing the movement of electronic data across borders as the world becomes increasingly connected, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday. As more and more software services are provided over the Internet, "people will be calling on computers located around the world," said…
