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Microsoft Giving Final CES Keynote in 2012
A keynote by Microsoft’s CEO has long anchored the beginning of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the company usually accompanies that speech with a huge booth on the convention floor. Starting in 2013, however, Microsoft will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at CES. “We have decided that this…
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Microsoft, MasterCard Partner on Office 365 Program
Payments and technology company MasterCard Worldwide and technology giant Microsoft extended their pledge to increase technology and payment services to small businesses through a new strategic initiative that sees MasterCard become a member of the partner program for Office 365, a cloud productivity service that gives small businesses access to email, documents, contacts and calendars…
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Specializations: Getting to Value, Quality
Having base-level product skills isn’t cutting it any longer. Not for vendors. Not for end-users. So what do you need to go beyond these base-level technical skills to differentiate yourself and continue to grow in today’s market? The prescription: specialize. As the IT market continues to mature, access to highly focused technology “specialists” is becoming…
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Apple Reported to Buy Flash Storage Firm Anobit
Apple has reportedly gone through with its plans to purchase Israeli flash storage company Anobit for some $500 million. That news comes from Reuters, itself quoting the Israeli business daily Calcalist. Apparently, Apple will also build a research and development complex in Israel. Rumors of Apple’s Anobit buy had circulated since earlier in December, when…
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Oracle Sees Satisfying Software, Services Sales in Q2 2012
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) may not have reached all the sales goals at which it aimed, but the fiscal Q2 2012 earnings report it delivered Dec. 20 still had to be satisfactory for itself and shareholders. Generally, the company did well in its software and services businesses but lost some ground on the hardware side. The…