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by prashanth on January 17, 2006
Gap Inc. has signed a 10-year, $1.1 billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM, the San Francisco-based clothing retailer said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Under the deal, IBM must...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2006
Rumor has it that IBM has approached the satyam's founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju, the newspaper(www.ft.com) reported, citing an unnamed executive close to the Indian IT Services company....
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by prashanth on December 27, 2005
Volkswagen has sold its in-house IT services consultancy, Gedas, to T-Systems for between $473 million and $532 million, reports News.com.The deal, which still must be approved by antitrust...
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by prashanth on December 27, 2005
AMR Research (Bruce Richardson) Based on a survey of 236 IT and line-of-business executives - When asked about their IT spending plans for the next 12 months, 72% planned to increase spending and 25%...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
I.B.M. announced yesterday that it would pay $865 million for Micromuse Inc., whose software is used to manage Internet-based computing networks that handle voice, video and data. The acquisition is...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
The ink had barely dried on Monday's $56 million purchase of Austria-based NewLogic, when on Thursday it acquired New Jersey-based mPower for an all-cash payout of $28 million. mPower, a company...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
Wishing you a very happy & Merry Christmas - Have a Great Time.......
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by prashanth on December 22, 2005
Here's infoworlds look back at 2005's wild mix of earth-shakers and underreported occurrences: Wal-Mart, DoD Mandates RFID Compliance Jan. 1 Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Buy Jan. 7 Publication...
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by prashanth on December 08, 2005
Continued from here... IT: IT is now increasingly considered an important vehicle to improve Chinese enterprises' competitive edge, the IT market is still enjoying a stable and fast growth. But,...
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by prashanth on December 08, 2005
On the IDC blog , there is transcript available of an interview with Dorthy Yang, the Research Director IDC China. You can get the transcript of the interview here & listen to it hereBelow are...
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by prashanth on December 07, 2005
"The IT and telecom industry convergence, consolidation, and realignment of the past two years will continue in full stride in 2006," said Frank Gens, senior vice president of Research at...
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by prashanth on November 22, 2005
Murgan Pal, The CTO of spike source has an entry in the Oriely Blog on an suggested apporach for Software vendors to migrate to the open source model. Some interesting excerpts from the article: As...
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by prashanth on October 14, 2005
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and...
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by steve on October 10, 2005
Remember IBM picking up Gluecode, Well here is the next one...along the same lines ...Oracle Corp. pciked up Finnish open-source database technology developer Innobase OY company founded in 1995....
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by steve on September 26, 2005
At the OpenWorld conference this week Oracle will announce a deal with EDS to combine both companies' application management and modernization services as a single offering. According to a joint...
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by steve on September 22, 2005
Computer world has a special report which identifies the mega trends in the Busienss Intelligence space, 1. Information democracy Not keeping BI in the hands of the few financial analysts in HQ but...
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FatlensFatlens display their new shopping categories. They mostly had event tickets before but it also features clothing right now. Looks pretty helpful - definitely worth a...
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by steve on September 12, 2005
The overall finding of a recent study by Robert Frances Group, sponsored by IBM, was that linux was 40% less expensive than a comparable Windows system and 54% less than Solaris, based on a...
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by steve on September 07, 2005
Check out the "2005 IT Service Provider Scorecard" by Forrester available here. Summary of the document: Every year, Forrester asks clients to describe their satisfaction with IT service...
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by steve on August 29, 2005
Tablet PC in hospitals...Overlake Hospital Medical Center...seems to be a leading(most talked about) example in the use of Tablet PCs (other technology) in hospitals.....in part due to a video by the...
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by steve on August 09, 2005
Finance executives don't know what they don't know it seems. Perhaps CIOs can help out. A recent press release by Accenture reads, "Majority of Finance Organizations Need to Improve...
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by steve on August 08, 2005
HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, is conducting quarterly Support Center Leadership Forums. HDI's Support Center Leadership Forums provide...
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