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Citrix Online, Cisco Differ on Telepresence Future
Cisco Systems’ CEO John Chambers predicts that consumer versions of his company’s high-definition telepresence systems will hit the home/consumer market within a year. "What you’re going to see is, over the next 12 to 15 months … high-definition capabilities for TelePresence into the home," Chambers told reporters last week. Chambers reported he has one of…
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Sun Chief Calls Layoffs Difficult but Necessary
In a video posted on his corporate Web site, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz described the decision to reorganize the high-end hardware and software vendor and lay off nearly 6,000 workers as a difficult but necessary decision for the future of the company. “Our customers are facing very difficult conditions,” Schwartz said. “They too are…
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AMD Announces Fast, Energy-Saving Chip
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has started selling the new generation of its Opteron quad core processors for servers, AMD announced on Wednesday, nearly one year after Intel launched its own 45 nanometer chip. After a troubled launch of its earlier Barcelona chip, AMD waited until the new chip, called "Shanghai," was…
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IBM Channel Chief Pursues Dramatic Simplicity
Now that the new channel chief of IBMhas more than 100 days under his belt in the job, a relatively simple, yet profound, idea has started to take root. Like most channel chiefs, Rich Hume realizes that the whole business relationship between vendors and solution providers is overly complex. Hume attributes much of this complexity…
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SIMTone Puts the Silver Lining on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is gaining greater appeal in these difficult economic times. Many startups and small businesses are looking for ways to contain their IT costs and budget appropriately. SIMtone is aiming to help solution providers meet those budgetary needs by offering a platform that can be used to create cloud-based environments at a fixed, subscription-based…
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Can AMD Shanghi Intel Nehalem Users?
With the early arrival of AMD’s new Shanghai processor, right on the heels of Intel’s public unveiling of Nehalem, one has to wonder if we are on the verge of a renewed chip war. There is some interesting background behind each product launch here – Intel rushed to lift the NDA on Nehalem, so reports…
