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Apple iPhone, Snow Leopard OS Highlight WWDC, but No Jobs
Steve Jobs may not be scheduled to unveil advancements around the iPhone, the new Snow Leopard Mac operating system or other Apple technologies at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, but Apple is likely to have plenty of news in store for its loyal followers about those technologies. And WWDC is something that…
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Microsoft Partner Program to Become More Customer-Centric
Microsoft will begin to roll out changes to the Microsoft Partner Program at the Microsoft Partner Conference in New Orleans in July. The changes will include a new name and rebranding of the program. Soon to be rebranded as the Microsoft Partner Network, the program will build on existing resources and initiatives but will make…
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Behind Cisco’s ‘Flip’ for Video Collaboration
Keith Goodwin, Cisco’s senior vice president of worldwide channels, deserves an Oscar for his performance at the Cisco Partner Summit last week in Boston. When his colleague Andrew Sage finished talking about collaboration and the utility of the Flip video camera, Goodwin playfully asked how he could get one. Sage, vice president of worldwide small…
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Cisco Unveils New SMB-Focused Products
At its annual Partner Summit this week, Cisco doubled down on its efforts to expand its presence in the SMB market by introducing new products and incentives to help partners increase sales and profitability. About a year ago, Cisco began building a sales, marketing, manufacturing and support infrastructure designed to target the needs of solution…
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Microsoft’s Ozzie Sees Lower Margins from Cloud
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services — broadly known as cloud computing — would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company’s existing software business. "The margins on services are not like the margins on software, so it (cloud computing) will increase our…
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Cisco’s New Servers: What’s Different from the Rest?
Given the precipitous drop in net-new server sales during this recession, Cisco’s launch into the entry-level rack mount space this week seems somewhat counterintuitive. Especially at the commodity level, a market segment that doesn’t offer much margin and is already saturated with volume-based products from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Indeed, IBM has begun moving away…
