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Microsoft is readying the next—and seemingly final public—beta builds of its Office 2007 client and SharePoint Server 2007 server products, according to bloggers inside and outside the company. Last week, Microsoft notified Office testers officially of its plans for the next build, known as Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (TR). According to a note […]

Tack on another case in what seems to be an epidemic of laptop thefts and losses: Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch business information publisher, earlier this month informed U.S. employees that a laptop with data on 8,500 current and former workers was stolen from a payroll department office over Memorial Day weekend. In a letter dated […]

Fannie Mae chief information officer Julie St. John, a 16-year veteran of the mortgage financing company, will leave at the end of the year, the company said in a regulatory filing. In a July 7 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Fannie Mae said St. John “has been taking a lead role in connection […]

In June, as much of the world took a breather to watch World Cup matches, another sport was getting a lot of attention in the North American IT channel—mergers and acquisitions. Countless owners were pondering, evaluating, negotiating or shaking hands on deals to sell their companies. M&A activity has been increasing over the past 12 […]

There has never been a better time to be a solution provider. All the major hardware vendors are putting tremendous research and development dollars behind higher-end products such as blade servers, which carry more services opportunities. And corporations are warming up to Web hosting and software as a service, which bodes well for the channel. […]

Some emerging technologies gain acceptance more quickly than others. How quickly a technology takes hold has a lot to do with cost, business value proposition and ease of deployment. In its recent survey on emerging technologies, CIO Insight, a sister publication of eWeek Strategic Partner, found that team collaboration tools top IT executives list of […]

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Whos to blame when a Web site crashes? The site owner? The host? The supplier of the back-end software? The blame game doesnt seem to have started—at least not publicly—in the case of MySpace.com, the latest mega-Web site to go down. MySpace is one of the largest sites on the Web. As of February 2006, […]

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