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IBM Customers Wary of Change in Wake of Lenovo Deal
For IBM and Lenovo Group Ltd., their deal to merge their PC businesses will result in some big changes for both companies, and officials for both expect those results to be positive. However, users of IBM notebooks and desktop PCs say this deal will only be a success if nothing changes for them. After several…
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IBM Spins Off PC Group with Chinese Partner
In confirming almost a week of speculation, IBM and China-based Lenovo Group Ltd. announced an agreement Tuesday night in which Big Blue will sell its PC division for about $1.75 billion. The deal, which officials from both companies said will be completed in the second quarter of 2005, will make Lenovo the third-largest PC company…
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Cisco, Juniper Making Noise in High-End Routing Space
Dueling Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. are both jockeying for the spotlight on the high end of the routing market with announcements of new developments around their respective CRS-1 and T-series core routers. Cisco, which played catch-up to Juniper in the service provider core routing space last May when it launched the Carrier…
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Mozilla Launching Second Act with E-Mail Client
The Mozilla Foundation will release late on Monday a full version of its open-source answer to the e-mail client. With the launch of the Thunderbird 1.0 application, the nonprofit hopes to achieve in e-mail what it did with its Firefox Web browser: Persuade a groundswell of users to try its alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s dominant…
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Siebel Courts SMBs with Partner Program
Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched a new plan of attack to go after the SMB (small to midsized business) space that has proved elusive for the market-leading enterprise CRM software developer. The strategy includes a new go-to-market model that integrates direct sales with local and regional channel partners and a new partner alliance program…
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Microsoft Tightens Windows Server 2003 Security
Microsoft Corp. has made available for download the first release candidate of a major security update to Windows Server 2003. To further tighten security on new installations, the Post-setup Security Update Wizard blocks all incoming traffic until the latest updates are applied and Automatic Updates are configured. The Service Pack adds the Windows Firewall, perhaps…
