Monthly Archives: July 2007
Wal-Mart Says Its Site-to-Store Program Doing Well
Wal-Marts version of the virtually ubiquitous buy-online-pickup-in-store strategy has reduced customer shipping costs by $5 million while sharply increasing new customer acquisitions and in-store...
Video: Google finds more MP3s than Limewire
God bless user-generated service journalism. This video, by a 21-year-old student named Jimmy Ruska, explains how to use Google to quickly and efficiently find...
Microsofts Pregnant Pause
For as long as anybody can remember, Microsoft has always been pregnant in one form or another in the sense that there is always...
Unlike Microsoft, Novell Sticks with GPLv3
Microsoft denies that it has anything to do with GPLv3 or vice versa. Novell, however, is making it clear that it will be supporting...
Michael Dell: Linux Coming to SMBs, Europe Soon
Dell plans on expanding the reach of its factory-installed Linux PCs to include small and midsize businesses and Europe, Michael Dell, the companys founder...
Microsoft Preps Remote Management Tool for Channel Partners
Microsoft this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver will announce plans to release to manufacturing its new Systems Center Remote Operations Manager...
Lenovo Quietly Selling Linux-Compatible Laptops
Lenovo seems to have a love/hate relationship with Linux. Last year, it began offering its high-end T60p ThinkPad laptop with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise...
Dell Looks to Entice SMBs with New Services
NEW YORK—Dell wants small businesses to know that it can offer more besides low-cost PCs.
At a July 10 event here to promote Vostro—a new...
IDC: $11B Virtualization Services Market by 2011
Theres money to be made in virtualization services, according to IDC.
In a report released July 11, the research firm found that the market for...
New MS Marketplace to Compete with Salesforce.com
Microsoft is giving notice that it plans to directly challenge Salesforce.coms online application marketplace, AppExchange, and on-demand programming language and platform, Apex.
Microsoft announced at...