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Best Buy Sides with Blu-ray
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Monday it will recommend that consumers choose Sony’s Blu-ray high-definition video format. The decision gives Sony yet another victory in the battle with Toshiba’s HD DVD to be the high-definition DVD format of choice. Earlier on Monday, online video rental company Netflix said…
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Dell Takes Channel Partner Program to Canada, Europe
Two and a half months after it launched its formal partner program, PartnerDirect, in the United States, Dell is ready to export it. The PC maker announced Feb. 12 that PartnerDirect is now available in Europe and in Canada. The programs offer the same features as the program in the United States—a two-tier program supported…
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EU Raids Intel Offices, Retailers
SAN FRANCICSO (Reuters)—The European Commission conducted antitrust raids against Intel Corp’s Munich offices on Tuesday and against retailers selling products of the world’s largest chip maker, the Commission and the chip maker said. The European Union watchdog’s actions ratcheted up pressure on Intel and broke new ground by raiding Germany’s huge Media Markt-Saturn and British…
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Nuance Aims to Take a Piece of Adobe`s Pie with PDF Converter Professional 5
PDF files have become the defacto standard for transmitting, moving and storing electronic documents on today’s corporate networks. The popularity of PDFs has been boosted by the availability of free readers and by creation tools that are bundled in with the latest document processing software packages. Add to that the ability to index and search…
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Microsoft to Offer More Cost-Effective Site Licenses to SMBs
Microsoft is expanding its Open Value Licensing program in a way designed to make it more attractive for channel partners to sell site licenses to their SMB customers. The program previously only offered the more expensive perpetual software licenses. But on March 3 Microsoft will announce Open Value Subscription – a new option that enables…
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Are We Witnessing a New IBM?
I’ve tracked IBM for a good number of years now. I’ve listened to its media-trained, mogul-style executives in their dark blue suits (of course) spout on to me about everything from Tequila to WebSphere, from coffee to finance and from Lotus to yoga. But it is only a rare occasion that I have ever heard…