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Articles tagged with: Ibm and Microsoft
Obama's tax plans raises high-tech hackles
President Barack Obama's plan to impose U.S. taxes on corporate America's overseas profits threatens to open a big crater in the financial statements of technology companies. more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Growth of Unified Communications Services to Dwarf Products Growth
Unified communications and collaboration is expected to see significant growth delivered as a hosted service according to a new study released by Wainhouse Research. Heavyweights Microsoft, Cisco, and ibm are all investing heavily to create offerings that integrate with their existing unified communications products into a hosted services framework. more
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Telephony Market to Crimp Unified Communications Market Growth
While Unified Communications (UC) has become a high tech marketing buzzword and the focus of major enterprise vendors including Avaya, Cisco, ibm Lotus, Microsoft, and Nortel, a new study released by Wainhouse Research concludes that UC product revenues will actually decrease by over $1 billion over the next two years before the market rebounds. more
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Consumers Will Accept New Forms of Advertising if Companies Follow Their Rules
ibm's survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services -- such as social networking and videos -- on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits. more
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Nokia in Advanced Talks to Sell Security-Appliances Unit
Nokia is in advanced talks to sell its security-appliances business to a financial investor as it concentrates on consumer Internet services, such as push email. more
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Dell Warning Hints at Technology Giants' Vulnerabilities
Dell's warning Tuesday is the latest indication that overseas spending on information technology is slowing - right at the time when the U.S. market is expected to feel increased pressure from the turmoil on Wall Street. more
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Gartner Survey Sees IT Spending Increasing
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- While general economic trends are adding to concerns about business slowdowns and possibly recession around the world, a new survey by technology research firm Gartner suggests the market for technology spending is going to increase for at least the next three years. more
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Apple's iPhone Dials Up a New Deferred Cash Hoard
Buyers of Apple's iPhone 3G typically sign two-year contracts when they purchase the swanky $525 device. But rather than record all the revenue at once, the iconic computer company will post roughly 72 cents in sales every day over the life of each of those contracts. more
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Majority of IT Buyers Interesting in Going "Green" - if the Price is Right
Do "green" products and marketing matter in the enterprise technology industry? According to GreenFactor, - a global "green" enterprise IT study released by Strategic Oxygen, GCI Group and Cohn & Wolfe, "green" products are not only highly important for the environment, they are potentially profitable: More than 70 percent of the global respondents said they "probably" or "definitely" would increase their preference for a brand's "green" products if they were convinced of the positive impact on the environment and business. Almost 60 percent said they would expect to pay a premium for "green" products. more
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