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IBM Targets Google With Online Email
(Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business…
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Does Windows Mobile 7 Delay Portend Zune Phone?
The repeated delay of Windows Mobile 7 is throwing the rumor mill into overdrive following the recent online leak of photos thought to represent phone prototypes from a development project at Microsoft called Project Pink. The photos and speculation around them place Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger in the spotlight and are leading many to conclude…
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Polycom Sales Chief’s Insider View of the Cisco, Tandberg Combo
If anybody has insight into the sales and channel programs of the newly combined Cisco and Tandberg video conferencing operation, it’s probably Polycom’s new executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller, who joined Polycom about three months ago, has served as an executive at Cisco and also as the CEO of Tandberg. “I’m…
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Cisco to Buy Video Firm Tandberg for $3 Billion
(Reuters) – Cisco has agreed to buy Norwegian videoconferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion, the latest in a series of bets taken on using video to drive demand for its core data transmission gear. The world’s dominant maker of Web routers and switches said buying Tandberg would strengthen its position in a $34 billion market…
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Cisco Partners See Big Upside in Tandberg Acquisition
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) channel partners may be excited about the networking vendor’s acquisition of video conferencing stalwart Tandberg (OSLO: TAA.OL) and the addition of that company’s technologies to their portfolio of products to sell, but Tandberg reseller partners may not get as sweet a deal. Cisco announced plans this week to acquire Oslo, Norway-based Tandberg…
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Says Efficiency Key to Recovery
In an memo to customers and partners posted on Microsoft’s Website this week, company CEO Steve Ballmer says that the economic recession has resulted in fundamental change in how the economy and business will operate, the so-called “new normal.” The new normal reflects changes in behavior that are going to value cost-cutting, less debt and…