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HP Lands No. 1 Spot in Customer Respect Survey
HP has been acknowledged as the industry leader in how well it treats customers online, earning the No. 1 ranking in a study conducted by the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm.
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Supreme Court Rebuffs Lexmark in Toner Cartridge Fight
(By Todd R. Weiss)
Printer vendor Lexmark Inter-national Inc. has apparently failed in a carefully targeted legal battle to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to stop competitors from making cheaper, refurbished toner cartridges that can be used in its printers.
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VeriSign Again Wins Bid to Operate .net Domain
VeriSign Inc. has won its bid to manage the .net registry, home to more than 5 million Internet domains, for the next five years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced.
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Sensor Turns Cell Phones into Wireless Web Servers
(By John Blau)
With a new application developed by Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. users can create personal pages on their mobile phones complete with text and graphics and exchange these with other phones, essen-tially turning their handsets into wireless Web servers.
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Firefox Keeps Chipping Away at IEs Share
The Mozilla Foundations Firefox managed to slightly increase its usage share in the Web browser market in May, as it continues to compete against the markets Goliath: Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer (IE).
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The O Word Reconsidered
Seven hundred ninety-one. Thats the number of companies that, according to CNN commentator Lou Dobbs Web page, are either sending American jobs overseas or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor. Since 2003, Dobbs has kept a running tally of companies that, in his view, are exporting America. In that same time frame, it has become increasingly difficult to find a CIO who doesnt clam up at the mention of outsourcing or offshoring for fear of becoming yet another name on that list.
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Raise The Bar
Ten tips to help you get the best performance from your IT
Managing technology vendors used to be an invisible job that somehow just got done. But with more-complex IT offerings, increasingly complicated negotiations and the budgetary imperative to get the best deal, companies are formalizing the vendor management function with standard processes, centralized administration and firm opinions as to what does and doesnt work.
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Grooming the Next Generation
(By Thomas Hoffman)
Until recently, many CIOs hadnt given much thought to succession planning, thanks largely to a weak economy and low staff turnover. People were lulled into a sense of complacency over the last five years, as there hadnt been much job movement, says Bill Homa, CIO at Hannaford Brothers Co., a Scarborough, Maine-based grocer.
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COMPUTEX : ECS Shows Dual Intel, AMD Motherboard
(By Martyn Williams)
Computer motherboards, the main circuit board of a PC around which the entire system is built, are big business at the Computex exhibition and motherboard makers are showing walls full of the things. Almost all of the boards on display in Taipei this week are designed to be used with a specific chipset and processor but one of the more unique boards is able to cope with chips from both Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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Ballmer Tells of
New World of Work
(By Paul Krill)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft TechEd 2005 conference in Orlando touted the theme of a New World of Work focused on information access, business processes, and collaboration.
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Its Official: Apple Switches to Intel
(By Narasu Rebbapragada)
The harsh line that divides Mac computers from Windows-based machines softened more as Apple confirmed it will use Intel processors in future Mac computers. The switch will make Macs, at least in theory, capable of running the Windows operating system.
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No More Waiting for Windows XP to Boot Up
(By Sumner Lemon)
Taiwanese hardware maker Giga-byte Technology Co. Ltd. has stumbled upon a faster way to boot up PCs based on Microsoft Corp.s Windows XP operating system.
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Oracle, IBM Update Identity Management Packages
(By Bob Francis)
Oracle and IBM re-enforced their identity management software offerings with new features and functions.
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Seagate Announces 2.5-inch Perpendicular HDD
(By Paul Kallender)
Seagate Technology will start shipping 2.5-inch notebook PC drive with 160G-bytes of capacity in the first quarter of next year, it said.
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Intel, Nokia Team up for Mobile WiMax
(By Sumner Lemon)
Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. have teamed up to back the development of mobile WiMax technology, and will work together to see that the technology is standardized soon, the companies said.
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BenQ to Take Over Siemens Mobile Phone Business
(By Dan Nystedt and John Blau)
In a sign of how tough the mobile phone business is these days, Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ Corp. has agreed to take over Siemens AGs loss-making handset division in return for 250 million (US$306.7 million), and to try to rebuild it as a top global contender. The German electronics giant will also purchase a
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Indias Offshore Outsourcing Revenues Grew 34.5 Percent
(By John Ribeiro)
Indias software and services exports totalled US$17.2 billion in the fiscal year to March 31 this year, up by 34.5 percent from the previous year, according to Indias National Association of Software Companies (Nasscom) in Delhi.
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COMPUTEX :
Hard-disk Drive Makers Show Latest Products
(By Martyn Williams)
Some of the industrys largest hard-disk drive makers showed off their latest products and prototypes at the Computex show in Taipei.
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Novell to Update iFolder
(By Deni Connor)
Novell is expected to release a Linux version of its iFolder data protection software as soon as the end of this month.
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Philippines Declares June ICT Month
For the first time, the Philippines will be observing a National ICT Month this June, thanks to Proclamation No. 802 issued by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of The Philippines.
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Basel II:
Challenges and Solutions
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation and Alchemy Associates held a seminar on the Basel II: challenges & Solutions for the chief executives, chief financial officers, chief technology officers and risk managers of the financial services industry of the country.
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WIPO Urges Tradename Protection for New Domains
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is suggesting some safeguards to stop cybersquatters from grabbing trademark-protected names under new generic Internet domain names.
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New .xxx Domain will be Reserved for Porn
(By John Blau)
Numerous groups, including several outspoken U.S. politicians, have been demanding for some time a separate Internet domain for pornography in a move to prevent sexually explicit content from landing on the screens of young Net users. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took a big step to meet that demand by approving a plan for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses that end with .xxx.
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