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Datacenter spending remains strong
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:15:16 GMT
Many companies are stepping up their datacenter investments even as they try to make cutbacks in other parts of their business, according to survey released Monday by AFCOM , the association for datacenter professionals.
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Offshore outsourcing: what role will recession play?
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:18:48 GMT
The ongoing credit crisis is a concern for everyone in nearly every industry-fear of lost jobs, foreclosed homes and bankrupt businesses. But those lost jobs are likely to further bolster the booming offshore outsourcing market-so the experts predicted.
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Microsoft fights Ballmer testimony in 'Vista Capable' suit
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:52:52 GMT
The only thing CEO Steve Ballmer knew about Microsoft 's Windows Vista Capable marketing campaign was what he was told by subordinates, and he should not have to testify in the class-action lawsuit that accuses the firm of deceiving customers, the company said Friday.
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Google, Yahoo delay ad deal over DOJ investigation
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:43:31 GMT
Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Top 10: Money meltdown, Ozzie's cloud, security worries
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:33:27 GMT
At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at least that's the case for fans of the teams that are winning). The U.S. financial system meltdown smacked world markets and set off a whole lot of worry, which tended to overshadow all the other news.
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Congress extends R&D tax credit as part of bailout
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:27:23 GMT
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to extend a research and development tax credit to U.S. businesses as part of its approval of a giant bailout of the U.S. mortgage industry.
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Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:50:30 GMT
Red Hat on Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering.
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Wall Street woes won't take down tech
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:31 GMT
IT spending is faring better than the overall economy, and the sector "will avoid a recession in 2008," says Gartner. But in a report sent to clients this week, the analyst firm says it believes IT budgets will show "very low year-over-year growth rates until business growth significantly improves."
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House struggles to deal with bailout-related e-mail deluge
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:04:46 GMT
The IT staff at the U.S. House of Representatives is taking emergency steps in an effort to handle a fourfold increase in the amount of e-mail that has come in via the House's Web site since Sunday, when the text of the proposed Wall Street bailout bill was posted online.
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HP to buy LeftHand Networks for storage virtualization, iSCSI
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:19:51 GMT
Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for $360 million to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for medium-size companies and remote offices and branches.
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