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- Facebook reaches safety plan with states
- Facebook has joined MySpace and inked a deal with 49 state attorneys general on a safety plan. Texas was the lone holdout. News.com's Caroline McCarthy reports: "We've agreed with 49 states and the District of Columbia to set up principles around Internet safety," Facebook...
- Tags: Facebook, Agreement, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Harassment, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy
- VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...
- Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Small School Districts Gain Big Buying Power With School agreement for Consortium
- To train students to achieve technology proficiency, Rhode Island Public Schools must acquire the latest software. In response, smaller school districts in the state formed the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators RISTE and, with the help of TechTeam Government Solutions, set up a School Agreement with Microsoft to qualify...
- Tags: Software, Software License, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2008-03-21
- Tech giants reveal their agenda
- The CEOs of the largest US tech companies this week lobbied the government for protection against patent infringement lawsuits, and for support of several key policies. Technet, the organization representing the chief executives of the largest US tech companies, unveiled its "2008 Innovation Policy Agenda" at an...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Policymaker, Broadband, Agreement, Microsoft TechNet, Internet, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Corporate Governance, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Linux-based+Unison+server+to+challenge+Microsoft+Unified+Communications+Platform
- Linux-based+Unison+server+to+challenge+Microsoft+Unified+Communications+PlatformPredictionIf employees of MS partners aren't required to sign non-compete agreements with MS, they soon will be.Good work / good postThanks for digging that one up. Any word on possible costs? (or did I miss it somewhere? It will deffinatly be less than MS.) Will you or someone be...
- Tags: agreement, CeBit, Unison, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- 16GB iPhone upgrade for existing customers a convoluted mess - for now
- One of the Boy Geinus Report's most credible sources and they have quite a few has information that Apple and AT&T will not force purchasers of the new 16GB iPhone to sign a new contract. The policy is not so simple, though. Until...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Policy, AT&T Corp., Agreement, BGR, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb.
- Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed. Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting, but CEO Jerry Yang said a workforce review and a targeted "jobs realignment" will begin in February. First the good news...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Samba is beneficiary of Microsoft-EU deal
- Samba will be a direct beneficiary of Microsoft's agreement to cooperate with the European Union, which was announced today. The agreement is that Samba will get assured compatibility with Microsoft Workgroup protocols through a group called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, which is chartered in Delaware. ...
- Tags: Samba, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., PFIF, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- RentBoss Single User (24su)
- RentBoss is a program with modern look and feel that has been specially created for small to mid-size property owners and comes with a unique lease agreement organizer feature. The application is simple and very easy to use. The interface is cleverly designed to help landlords have important information readily...
- Tags: Application, Agreement, Photograph, RentBoss, Program Tenant Module
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- Strategic Sourcing for Vendor Management Results in Flexibility, Simplicity, and Reduced Costs
- Cisco Systems has an enormous IT infrastructure budget. Lack of consistent process meant that Cisco could receive 20 different agreements for the same service with the same vendor. Agreements in different countries would have different prices, lengths, terms, and service levels. This was an inefficient and complex process for both...
- Tags: Sourcing, Agreement, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-12-13
- Momentum Webcast: Enterprise agreement Welcome Briefing (Level 100)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about the enterprise commitment, the true-up process a simple way to report on installed applications, and terms of payment. It will show how to add products to Enterprise Agreement after signing it, and how channel partner, or software advisor, can assist. It also...
- Tags: Webcast, Advisor, Agreement, Investment, Digital Media, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-12-05
- Napster, courtesy of your college and the federal government
- An article posted on Ars Technica highlights a new bill under consideration in Congress. Section 494 of the otherwise vanilla college funding bill ties federal aid to many means of preventing file sharing. While some means are as innocuous as informing new students about the legal ramifications of...
- Tags: Student, Agreement, File-sharing, Napster Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Credit Card Processor Utilizes Microsoft-Novell agreement, Expects 55 Percent Savings
- Conductor, a credit-card processing outsourcer, provides credit card issuers with comprehensive services. Internally, it supports a mix of desktop systems and a heterogeneous IT infrastructure. However, the mixed environments led to support inefficiencies, lack of interoperability between servers, and difficulty exchanging files internally. By using the Microsoft-Novell interoperability agreement, Conductor...
- Tags: Processor, Novell Inc., Credit Card, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Credit Card Processor, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales
- Case studies 2007-11-12
- Is Microsoft's Europe agreement a big deal?
- Is Microsoft's Europe agreement a big deal?whoo food for the mindMr you just given me and a few friend some great debate food thx you its really a great post thxFood's better where you areI happen to be a Quebecophile. The farms and the...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food, IS MICROSOFT, agreement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Is Microsoft's Europe agreement a big deal?
- American developers interviewed yesterday by Paula Rooney do not believe the agreement by Microsoft to obey Europe's anti-trust edict is a big deal. Let me beg to disagree. It's true that the protocols whose code is being released here are, in current development terms,...
- Tags: America, Europe, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Add TurboLinux to the Microsoft patent-protection roster
- It's been a while since Microsoft signed up any more Linux distro vendors to participate as patent-protection partners. But on October 22, the Redmondians announced they've added TurboLinux to the fold. Microsoft's deal with TurboLinux -- like the interoperability/technology partnership arrangements it has cemented with Novell, Linspire...
- Tags: Agreement, Microsoft Corp., TurboLinux Inc., Turbo, Authentication/Encryption, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Security, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- On forking and contributor agreements
- Paula Rooney has written an excellent article on a dispute in the Open Office developer community that could possibly lead to a fork of the free office suite. A fork occurs when someone puts out their own version of a piece of software that is separate from the "mainline" or...
- Tags: Fork, Agreement, Contributor Agreement, Paula Rooney, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowStopping innovation?You can anything you like with open source, as long as we approve...RE: OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowThe surprising thing to me is that it's so surprising to some that there is an argument going on in public. Some folks get needless hysterical...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contribution, Sun Contributor Agreement, agreement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- EDS, Sabre extend IT services deal
- EDS and Sabre Holdings extended and renegotiated a long running information technology services deal to 2014. Under the extension, EDS said Wednesday that it will garner new revenue of about $630 million. The new agreement requires that EDS support "Sabre's continued business transformation, including its move to open systems."...
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Agreement, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Sabre Holdings, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- IBM expands support for Sun's Solaris 10
- IBM and Sun today announced that day announced that IBM will distribute Solaris 10 and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's channels. The servers include IBM System x3650, System x3755, and System x3850 servers, and IBM BladeCenter HS21...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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