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Windows Mobile 7: Do Delays Impact Your Business?
If we’ve learned one thing about Twitter, it’s to watch what you say out loud, in any forum, or your words might become fodder for tweeters everywhere. Even closed door meetings with no journalists present aren’t safe. Just ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Now Ballmer’s pretty candid even when reporters are around, but he probably…
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Startup IT Structures Builds Virtual IT Environments
Is this scenario familiar to you? You are on a sales call and it’s going well. After a nice long conversation and a WebEx presentation, the customer says he thinks your software might be a good fit for his company. You think it’s a done deal. Then, “Can we try it out first?” That’s when…
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HP Sees Tech Rebound in 2010
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co predicted that overall IT spending would bounce back next year, but set a fiscal 2010 revenue forecast that came in just below Wall Street’s expectations. The IT industry will return to growth in 2010, and HP should outpace that growth, Chief Executive Mark Hurd told an audience at the company’s yearly…
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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…