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BMC Software has updated its Partner Network Program to encourage partners to invest in business service management expertise by providing a new certification for IT Service Management, improved product demonstration capabilities and early access to new products. BSM promises resellers a lucrative opportunity. Forrester Research predicts that the SLM (service-level management)/BSM market will grow 23 […]

Palm has used Linux to build what its calling a “new class” of mobile device. The Foleo is designed to expand the e-mail, Internet and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen. Very few details about the Foleo are known at this […]

LAS VEGAS—Nortel Networks, with its troubled past behind it, has embarked on a mission to reassert its role as Cisco Systems foil in the enterprise network market. In 2006, Nortel revenues in the enterprise were up 34 percent, according to CEO Mike Zafirovski, who sat down at Interop with eWEEK Senior Editor Paula Musich to […]

A study conducted by Symantec found that IT professionals worldwide are counting on a variety of technologies, including Information Technology Infrastructure Library frameworks, storage capacity management and virtualization to ease the struggle of dealing with increasing data center complexity in the face of strained resources. The “State of the Data Center” study, which was conducted […]

The lovable ogre Shrek, newly married to Princess Fiona and heir apparent to the kingdom of Far Far Away, returns to theaters this weekend in “Shrek the Third,” and thanks to a tech boost from Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard, it will arrive much sooner and richer than similarly complicated animated feature films. The animation […]

Chris DiBona, open-source programs manager at Google, gave a talk called “A Year of Open Source at Google” for the Google New York speaker series. Prior to his talk, which was closed to press, DiBona spoke on May 16 with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about a series of issues such as Microsofts recent […]

Alliance@IBM, a union representing 6,000 IBM employees, is asking Big Blue staffers to halt work for 15 minutes at 3 p.m. May 15 to protest IBMs U.S. work force reduction. Alliance@IBMs Web site instructs workers to “[s]top work for 15 minutes. Dont answer the phone, Dont answer Same Time. We must stand together and tell […]

eWEEK is proud to announce the finalists in its annual Excellence Awards program. From a field of more than 800 entries, eWEEK editors and Labs analysts selected the products and services that demonstrate a high level of innovation and an ability to meet the most pressing enterprise needs. Now in its seventh year, the eWEEK […]

/zimages/1/173497.jpg LAS VEGAS—As president of Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division, Robbie Bach drives the companys Connected Entertainment vision, offering consumers new and compelling, branded entertainment experiences across music, gaming, video and mobile communications. Bach spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft at the companys Mix show here. I cover developers, so the first thing […]

/zimages/1/173497.jpg LAS VEGAS—Robbie Bach, president of Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division, spoke with eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft at the Microsoft Mix conference here. This is Part 3 of the interview. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read Part 1 of the interview. So, is Nintendo disrupting things for you, or were you surprised to see them? […]

/zimages/2/173497.jpg LAS VEGAS—Robbie Bach, president of Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division, spoke with eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft at the Microsoft Mix conference here. This is Part 2 of the interview. /zimages/2/28571.gifFor the first part of this interview, click here. I looked back at my notes from the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting last summer […]