HP is looking to focus the debate around its networking equipment competition with Cisco around price. HP ProCurve officials say they are pleased about reports that Cisco may be asking some partners to match prices with HP. However, Cisco officials deny any such program is in place, saying instead that they are competing based on value and not price. If HP can keep the focus on price, it could help it gain ground against Cisco now that the global recession has put a tight squeeze on IT budgets.
– The friction between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems is continuing, this time in the area of networking equipment.
Specifically, the issue is the pricing of the networking equipment. HP officials are pointing to comments some Cisco officials made during the companys Partner Summit in June as an i…

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Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies is willing to pay $14.77 per share for Facebook common stock, boosting its stake to as much as 3.5 percent and valuing the world’s largest online social network at about $6.5 billion.
– SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies said it
will pay $14.77 a share for Facebook common stock, boosting its stake
to as much as 3.5 percent and valuing the world’s largest online social
network at about $6.5 billion.
While that is below the $10 billion valuation set by Digi…

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Google announced July 8 that the company is entering the operating system market with its Chrome OS. This will be a lightweight operating system with a GUI consisting of the Chrome browser. With the release of Chrome OS, Google is clearly challenging Microsoft Windows. Why do we welcome a new Web-ready OS? eWEEK Labs Analyst Jeff Cogswell ponders the possibilities.
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Microsoft Office, Zoho, OpenOffice and Google Docs are all claiming to be the new future of office productivity. Here’s
what they really need to be future-proof.
– 1. Permanence. This may sound strange, but the ability to read documents 20 years in the future should be a requirement. I recently went to England where at a museum my ancient-languages-enabled son was able to decipher the words from the oldest fragment (125 A.D.) of the New Testament. I’m not su…

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Google announced its Chrome operating system on July 7 and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser.
– Google announced its Chrome operating system on July 7 and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser.
Developer reaction has ranged from excitement over Google adding energy to delivering G…

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