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Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently. Cisco’s so called “Smart Grid” infrastructure plan looks to create a two-way communications…
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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Did IBM Bid Force Oracle`s Hand to Buy All of Sun?
It may have been a potential bid by IBM that forced Oracle into agreeing to acquire Sun Microsystems as a whole, despite an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing showing that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison originally sought to acquire only Sun’s software assets. The SEC filing notes that in addition to Oracle, there were two…
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IT Reseller Economic Stimulus Opportunity: Hospitals and Doctors
One of the biggest buckets of money expected to trickle down into the IT market as a result of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package, or American Recovery and Reivestment Act, comes from the $20.4 billion directive to modernize hospitals and physician practices through the creation of electronic medical records and the end game of making…
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IBM CEO (Almost) Says Why IBM Targeted Sun Microsystems Acquisition
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has upped its software and services game to become 80 percent of its business, a big increase from the 50-something percent that software and services used to contribute. But as IBM recounted its strategic moves towards emphasizing software and services putting less of a focus on hardware sales during its IBM Analysts Day…