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Will Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Make Bing the Next Big Thing?
With less than a 10 per cent share of the online search market, Microsoft’s Bing search engine would have a long way to go to catch up with its biggest competitor, Google, which has at least 70 per cent of the search market share. Microsoft is taking a new approach by partnering with Yahoo!, a…
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CompTIA and MTCPerformance Partner On Membership Discounts
A partnership between CompTIA and MTCPerformance will offer discounts on incentive community Spiffs.com to CompTIA members and discounted membership in CompTIA for MTCPerformance customers. CompTIA gets a lot of member feedback regarding strategies and best practices they can use for their sales personnel, so the partnership with MTCPerformance will offer them a discount on an…
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IBM to Double Consulting Staff in China
By Michael Wei and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N) plans to double the size of its new consulting team in China to help a growing number of firms that want to emerge from the global economic crisis stronger and more international. Frank Kern, president of Global Business Services (GBS), IBM’s consulting arm, told…
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Sony Challenges Amazon Kindle with $199 E-reader
By Laura Isensee LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers. Sony plans to start selling its 5-inch-screen Reader Pocket Edition at $199 — which it called…
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Cisco Quarter Revenue Falls but Profit Beats Expectations
NEW YORK, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported an 18 percent fall in quarterly revenue as customers held back spending on network equipment, but the decline was mostly in line with Wall Street forecasts and its profit was better than expected. Chief Executive John Chambers also said the company saw "a number…
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Symantec Adds Web Gateway Security to Protection Suite
Symantec today announced the integration of Web Gateway 4.5 into its Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition following the company’s April acquisition of Mi5 Networks. The latest improvement to the Symantec suite adds a new tier of anti-malware technology to the existing anti-virus engine that is meant to better protect users from botnet and Web 2.0…