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  • Is Apotheker on the way out at HP? (And is Meg Whitman on the way in?)

    Posted September 21, 2011 - 12:20 pm

    Rumors fly that HP's board of directors is prepared to oust embattled CEO Leo Apotheker.

  • Red Hat shares rise on Q1 earnings gain

    Posted June 22, 2011 - 5:19 pm

    Enterprise open-source software and services market leader Red Hat on Wednesday reported a 42 percent increase in fiscal first-quarter profits.

  • Should HP investors be worried or relieved over executive churn?

    Posted May 26, 2011 - 11:02 am

    Hewlett-Packard investors face some tough choices as chief executive Leo Apotheker tries to remake the struggling computer maker by overhauling the executive ranks.

  • Study: Apple leads in phone-based tech support

    Posted June 28, 2009 - 6:43 pm

    Vocal Laboratories has published the results of a study that shows Apple leads other PC makers in telephone-based tech support. The study said that 58 percent of Apple customers reported that they were "very satisfied" with the results of their call, compared to 46 percent of Dell customers and 43 percent of HP customers.

  • Microsoft offers new time-sensitive support service

    Posted February 3, 2009 - 12:09 pm

    Microsoft for the first time has said it will pay a financial penalty if it doesn't reach its service-level goals for a technical support product.

  • Computer Repair Services Advice for Smarter Technical Staffing

    Posted December 7, 2008 - 4:50 pm

    Do you provide the best computer repair services to your valuable clients? If you are like many other computer repair services business owners, you probably feel challenged when trying to provide high-level technical services and run your business … especially when running your business entails managing a staff of technicians.

  • Cool tools to save on shipping

    Posted October 17, 2008 - 3:10 pm

    Sending your holiday cheer doesn't have to break the bank. Surfing to the right sites can save you time and money, and spare you needless frustration, so don't buy a single stamp before reading on.

  • Reliance Globalcom Managed Ethernet Services Drive Network Expansion

    Posted August 25, 2008 - 4:27 am

    – Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of enterprise, wholesale, consumer and managed services, today announced that international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings) selected its Managed WAN Ethernet and Managed Premium Internet services across offices in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Paul Hastings is leveraging Reliance Globalcom’s expertise in plug-and-play Ethernet technology and control of the world’s largest privately owned fiber backbone to support projections for continuation of its 20 percent year-over-year growth.

  • Microsoft pitches proactive enterprise support

    Posted August 18, 2008 - 3:56 pm

    and quality of their IT networks.

  • Microsoft's online woes hint at larger vulnerability

    Posted July 24, 2008 - 8:44 am

    Microsoft has built its massive software business by watching other companies take the lead in emerging technology markets and then following fast with competitive products that eventually become dominant once those markets begin to pay out.

  • Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio

    Posted June 25, 2008 - 3:41 pm

    Dell on Wednesday announced it was adding customizable storage and disaster management services to build out its services portfolio, which it began revamping last year.

  • Microsoft finally stays on message about services

    Posted April 28, 2008 - 2:46 pm

    The deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo for making a deal or facing a proxy fight came and went this weekend without a word from either party. But even if Microsoft doesn't succeed now in its bid for Yahoo, the company made clear last week, both in private meetings with reporters and in public comments, that it's determined -- come hell or high water -- to move forward with its services strategy.

  • Unix Tip: Finding services on a subnet

    Posted May 14, 2007 - 11:23 am

    If you have ever needed to survey a large group of systems to find out which of them supported some particular service, such as ftp, telnet, ssh or some other particular application, you have probably thought of numerous ways to query the systems for the required information and display it in some usable fashion. Many methods of obtaining information from servers, however, require some sort of login or a remote shell request that either takes more time than you want to spend or requires you to configure some sort of trust on the part of the systems with the information for the system on which it is being collected. In today's column, we will look at a way to find out about services running on systems without setting up any access ahead of time.
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