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IBM, Intuit Debut Small Business Appliance
IBM has announced the American launch of its first Smart Business solution, an automated SMB-focused appliance which includes hardware, software and technical support, together with Intuit’s QuickBooks Enterprise accounting software. Starting at less than $8,000, it includes all of the fundamental capabilities needed to run a small or medium business including email, calendaring, security and…
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Zyrion Eyes New Partners for BSM Solutions
Zyrion is making Traverse BSM available to channel partners, marking an expansion of its channel partner program. As such, the company is looking to expand the number of channel partners it works with. According to Vikas Aggarwal, president and CEO, Zyrion is focusing on the U.S. market initially with the launch of Traverse BSM into…
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Carmakers Provide Performance Warning
No surprise to anyone, the auto industry is in bad shape. That reality hit a new peak in recent days as General Motors and Chrysler notified hundreds of dealers that their franchise contracts would not be renewed because of poor performance and the manufacturers’ inability to support their existing retail network. The contraction of the…
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ATandT Leaps into Cloud-Based Storage
BOSTON (Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using "cloud computing" technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Symantec Corp, Iron Mountain Inc and others in offering storage as a…
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Cisco’s Chief: I’m Here to Stay
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) Chief Executive John Chambers said on Monday that he would probably stay in his position for at least another three to five years. Asked at a JP Morgan technology conference about his future plans — for example, if he would move into politics — the 59-year-old head…
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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…