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Labor Pains
In May, after Hewlett-Packard Co. beat out IBM Corp. for the privilege of taking over the computer operations of Procter & Gamble Co., a deal worth $3 billion over a ten-year period, the 166-year-old Cincinnati-based consumer marketing giant tried making a virtue out of cost-cutting necessity. Announcing that nearly 2,000 technology workers would be leaving…
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Microsoft Rolls Out Beta of XP 64-Bit Edition
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will announce the beta availability of a native 64-bit version of its Windows XP operating system that is designed to support 64-Bit Extended Systems, including platforms based on AMD64 technology. Microsoft will make the announcement at AMD’s launch of the AMD Athlon 64 processor in San Francisco. The beta version of…
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Acer Woos Reseller Partners
Acer America Corp. has laid out a plan to bump up sales of consumer devices and drive its products deeper into the enterprise, and the company sees reseller partners as a key to that plan. The San Jose, Calif., company last week launched the Acer Authorized Reseller Program, an initiative designed to encourage resellers to…
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Microsoft to Modify .Net Server Licensing
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced that it has delivered the second release candidate for Windows .Net Server 2003. Customers can register to obtain a trial version of RC2 through the Customer Preview Program at www.microsoft.com/windows.netserver/default.mspx. Microsoft on Thursday also made available the second beta for its new Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), which is also…
