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Worldwide IT Spending Growth Speeds Up, Gartner Says
Research firm Gartner has released its latest forecast for worldwide IT spending in the coming year, and at first glance it looks like good news for tech companies across the board. The good news is...
View ArticleBusiness Tech Spending Picks Up
After delaying technology purchases and upgrades during the downturn, businesses started spending strongly again in the fourth quarter, lifting profits at tech suppliers including EMC Corp., SAP AG,...
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Dell Sales Fall Short, but Profit and Guidance Look Positive
Dell just reported quarterly earnings, and the numbers are a bit mixed. First off, sales in the fourth quarter were $15.692 billion, just a whisker short of consensus analyst expectations of $15.72...
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"Peripatetic Polyglot" Léo Apotheker Wants to Save HP's Soul by Buying...
Hewlett-Packard has lost its soul, and saving it apparently has something to do with buying software companies. Those are the two big takeaways from a Bloomberg Businessweek interview with HP’s new CEO...
View ArticleNetApp Acquires Engenio Storage Business From LSI
NetApp, the storage networking equipment concern, said today it had reached a deal to purchase the Engenio storage business from chipmaker LSI for $480 million in cash. The move will bolster its place...
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Léo Apotheker: Hewlett-Packard Will Build a Cloud
Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have a new competitor in the public cloud business ramping up, and its name is Hewlett-Packard. As part of his remarks at an HP event in San Francisco today, CEO Léo Apotheker...
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Google Makes It Easy To Try New Apps Right Away, Or Not
IT managers crave stability because new applications and features have a tendency to create chaos. If you’ve ever worked in an office where the IT manager hasn’t upgraded to the latest version of this...
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Video: Vivek Kundra, CIO Of United States, Talks IT Spending
What would you do with an IT budget of $80 billion? That’s the job facing Vivek Kundra, whose actual title is CIO of the United States of America. In video released by The White House today, he talks...
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Oracle Ceases Development For Intel's Itanium Chip
Software giant Oracle announced overnight that it has ceased all development work relating to Intel’s Itanium microprocessor. In so doing it reminded the world that the Itanium chip exists at all....
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Intel to Oracle: That's Okay, We'll Have a Great Itanium Party Without You
Chipmaker Intel just fired off a response to Oracle’s announcement that it plans to cease developing software to run on systems using the Itanium server chip. As you might expect, Intel is reaffirming...
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Oracle's Hurd Says Directors Will Soon Be Auditing IT Security
Oracle President Mark Hurd was in New York yesterday for the Oracle Chief Security Officer Summit, an all-day conference for Oracle customers and prospects. He said in a short speech that he thinks...
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Thanks, Oracle, for Harshing the Enterprise Tech Buzz
Even as the euro zone stares into the monetary abyss, even as the unemployment rate hovers around 9 percent, even as consumer spending is showing few signs of holding up despite the holiday season,...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Name CEO -- With eBay's PayPal Prez as Top Choice
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is poised to name a CEO, an announcement that could come as early as tomorrow. Sources said the leading candidate likely to get the nod is a dark...
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Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO
As I reported late last night, Yahoo said it had named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new CEO. The exec is currently in charge of the large eBay online payments unit. He’ll start next week,...
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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast
Happy New Year. IT market-research outfit Gartner has some sour news to start off 2012: It has just slashed its growth forecast for global on tech spending. The new forecast calls for companies and...
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IBM Looks Steady Despite Euro Zone Headwinds
Making up the second part of a big day in tech earnings that will set the tone for the coming weeks, computing and technology services giant IBM will report results after the close of markets in New...
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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly...
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A Trillion and Change: That's How Much Emerging Markets Will Spend on IT in 2012
We’ve been hearing for years how the emerging economies of the world are, well, not only emerging, but growing like weeds in a fertilizer factory. Now we have some idea of what that actually means,...
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IT Spending This Year? Almost Four Triiilllion Dollars.
The growth rate in global spending on information technology is slowing down a bit, but, well, it’s still growing, and will total $3.7 trillion, according to the latest forecast on the topic by the...
View ArticleU.S. Targets Tech's Role in Oppression
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and companies facilitating human-rights abuses with technology, part of a broader push by the White House to combat mass atrocities...
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