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Internet Explorer 8 Challenges Hosting, Services Companies
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 didn’t incite the kind of panic that occurred with last year’s daylight-saving time debacle, but manged service providers and hosted application providers say there’s still plenty of work to be done to ensure that customers weather the transition smoothly. “This impacts our entire customer base and all our delivery models, from managed services…
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Will Dell Make a Move on Palm?
Astute observation, keen reading of the tealeaves or wishful thinking, analysts and speculators are raising the specter that Dell could buy Palm, the struggling handheld equipment manufacturer, to bolster its product lines and provide a revenue-generating bulkhead against rising competition by Cisco Systems and IBM. Neither Dell nor Palm have said they’re in acquisition or…
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IBM Gets into Thin Clients with Wyse
In a slim way, IBM is getting back into the personal computing business through a new partnership with Wyse Technology, the market leading provider of thin client systems. Under a new alliance, IBM will resell direct and through partners Wyse thin client technology in service-oriented engagements. IBM has been focused on building out its Virtualized…
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Microsoft Passes Buck on Internet Explorer Error
Many users (myself included) are complaining of an error that seems to be cropping up more and more with all versions of Internet Explorer: “Internet Explorer Can Not Open the Internet Site – Operation Aborted” This error is a growing nuisance, but I figured it would disappear with an upgrade to IE8 or by installing…
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Cisco to Flip for Pure Digital Acquisition
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is on the acquisition path again, but for the moment the target is not Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA). Instead the networking giant today announced plans to pay $590 million in a stock deal for Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of the Flip Video video camera devices including the Flip MinoHD. And while Flip is…
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Samsung NC20 Says Forget the Dell Adamo
With its NC20, its latest entry into the ultra-hot netbook market, Samsung is asking the channel, “When is a netbook not a netbook?” Originally perceived as a replacement for the 2.8-pound Intel Atom-powered NC10, the NC20 introduces a new genre of portable computing, something that is more than a netbook but still less than a…
