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A Dangerous Move for Microsoft?
OK, so Microsoft has purchased Danger for a half-billion dollars, a company best known for developing the Sidekick, a T-Mobile PDA loved by the likes of Paris Hilton and a multitude of other celebrity wannabes. The big question is, Why? The Sidekick runs a proprietary OS (not a flavor of Windows Mobile!), does not synchronize…
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MessageOne Snapped Up by Dell
Dell is adding to its growing enterprise services portfolio and announced Feb. 12 that the company is acquiring MessageOne, which provides managed services for e-mail management, archiving and business continuity. Dell announced that it would acquire MessageOne, which is based in Austin, Texas, for $155 million in cash. The company is owned by Adam Dell,…
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Microsoft Entices SMBs with Freebies
Microsoft is giving away tools to entice SMBs to adopt its Office Live Small Business suite of Web-based software and services. However, the move could see the software giant provide tools and services for free that its VARs have previously charged for. Microsoft announced that it has combined its previous three-tier OLSB suite into one product…
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IBM Builds Storage Arrays from 1TB Drives
IBM has made its first storage product news since last October by announcing Feb. 12 a wide range of new software and hardware offerings for large enterprises and for small and midsize businesses. The key item here is that IBM is now using 1TB drives in its storage arrays, following similar moves by Network Appliance, EMC, Rackable…
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eWEEK Channel Labs Walk-Through: Nuance PDF Converter Professional 5
New PDFs are not a problem. With Nuance PDF Converter Pro 5, PDFs can be created from almost any source.
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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid
By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Eric Auchard SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc rejected Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited $41.6 billion takeover offer as too low on Monday, forcing the software maker either to sweeten the bid or adopt a hostile approach to clinch a deal. Microsoft responded by calling its offer full and fair, but stopped short…
