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The Pols Take On Technology
By Wayne Rash | Posted: 2008-03-03
HANNOVER, Germany - The March 3 CeBIT Opening Ceremonies here featured addresses by European politicians who used the event as a means of pressing their vision of how European industry could be revitalized, how
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German IT Leader Calls for Consortium Based on Airbus Model
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
By Mike Vizard
Addressing an audience full of European dignitaries that in included the president of France and the chancellor of Germany, the head of Germany's national IT
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Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years.
At this evening's keynote at the opening of the CeBIT computer
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Ballmer Calls for a Fifth Revolution at Cebit
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
By Mike Vizard
Speaking at the Opening of the Cebit Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the industry is on the cusp of what amounts to a fifth revolution in computing that will drive
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A New Kind of CeBIT
By Wayne Rash | Posted: 2008-03-03
The day before CeBIT dawned gray and threatening, but gave false hope with a brief period of sun. In March, the German weather can be fickle. Fortunately, that was the only fickleness of the day. The-day-before-CeBIT is
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Microsoft to Monitor Your Home
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
By Mike Vizard
In a sign of things to come, Microsoft announced at CeBit today that it has signed a unique partnership with a provider of Internet services in Germany to monitor power consumption in people's
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Steve Ballmer's Plan to Manage the Clouds
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
I've been watching and listening the Microsoft execs as they try to come up with their spin on cloud computing. It was Steve Ballmer speaking today (Monday, March 3) at CeBIT in Germany where I think
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Mike Vizard Watches Ballmer Play the Green Card
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to CeBIT today and played a decidedly green card to appeal to the sensibilities of the European community.
As part of an overall effort to reduce the amount
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Tom Henderson's CeBIT
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
The following is a blog entry by Tom Henderson. I've traveled with Tom to several CeBITS and I asked him to do some blogging this year on his take on CeBIT 2008.
Attendees to the re-vamped CeBIT 2008 Trade Fair and
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Microsoft Uses CeBIT to Rock the Channel
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
By Mike Vizard
Solution providers may have just heard the shot fired around the world when Microsoft announced today at CeBIT that it is now offering beta versions of both Microsoft Exchange and
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Riding the 3G In Europe
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
OK, I'm old enough to remember when business travel always involved some adept tech juggling as you tried to get an email connection. I mean sufficiently old to remember acoustic couplers stuffed, taped to odd shaped
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Lack of Internal Security Leads to Diplomatic Incident
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
This is a blog post from my colleague Mike Vizard.
The fragility of internal security controls is high on the minds of the German people in the wake of a recent tax scandal. Citizens
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APC Due to Replace FM AC Line?
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2008-03-03
This is a post from my colleague Mike Vizard. He'll be blogging on his own site in a bit.
One of the benefits of being part of the Schneider family of companies is that APC can now reach out to a lot of
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What to Expect from CeBIT
By Wayne Rash | Posted: 2008-03-03
HANNOVER - It was a dark and stormy night. As we walked the narrow, rainy streets from the train station, bundled tightly against the blustery cold, Eric Lundquist and I looked like characters out of one of those
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Heading to CeBIT
By Wayne Rash | Posted: 2008-02-29
Like Eric Lundquist, I too am heading off to CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Unlike Eric, I've been to the South of France in March, and it's not all that warm there either. In fact, choosing between Washington, Hannover and Cannes is more a matter of whether you like your cold
