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Cisco Capital’s Director Talks Credit Crunch: ‘Everybody Just Stopped’
Back when the credit crisis really began a little over a year ago—Sept. 23, 2008—Maryann Von Seggern, director of Cisco Capital was at a staff meeting with Cisco’s channel chief Keith Goodwin in the networking giant’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters. “We found out people’s bank accounts had been frozen,” she says, talking about how all…
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HP Takes Wraps Off ‘Packaged’ Services
Using terms like ‘strategic’, ‘holistic approach’ and ‘modeled solutions’, HP has announced a set of 10 ‘standardized’ integrated service solutions that should speed up engagements, lower risks and provide more value to customers and partners. HP Integration Services initially consists of 10 solutions to the most common industry or technology-based integration challenges, said Ian Jagger,…
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Microsoft Reportedly Prepping New Tablet PC
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is developing a small tablet-style PC to rival a similar product that may be launched by Apple Inc, technology blog Gizmodo reported on Tuesday. The booklet-shaped device, called Courier, is in the "late prototype" stage of development, Gizmodo reported, without identifying the source of its information. Microsoft did not immediately answer…
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With Fresh Focus on Design, Laptops Come of Age
(Reuters) – Say goodbye to the "black brick" laptop. The era of the plain, dowdy PC is officially over. As computer makers roll out their new notebooks and netbooks ahead of the end-year holiday shopping season, razor-thin, sleek and colorful are most definitely in, as are arresting designs in an ever-expanding array of choices. Hewlett-Packard…