June, 2009

June 29, 2009  7:27 PM

Extended lives for notebook translating into growth in replacement battery sales

Posted by: Heather Clancy

Did you know that sales of rechargeable batteries reached $36 billion in 2008? Or that some projections call for this figure to hit $51 billion by 2013? Certainly, you can't attribute that entire amount to replacement batteries for computers, but businesses all over the world and of every size...

June 26, 2009  5:28 AM

Windows 7 pricing news

Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, IT channel products and technologies, Microsoft, Vista, Win 7, Windows 7

Windows 7 pricing was posted on the Windows Team Blog Thursday. Estimated retail price (ERP) on upgrades is $119.99 for Win 7 Home...

June 26, 2009  5:00 AM

Microsoft ProPlus SKU

Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Groove, Office 2010, ProPlus Sku, SharePoint Workspace

Circling back to the new ProPlus SKU for Office 2010--mentioned this week by SharePoint director Tom Rizzo. Microsoft last month had 

June 24, 2009  6:36 PM

Hospital confirms Jobs’ surgery; Apple still mum

Posted by: badarrow

A Memphis hospital confirmed that it did, indeed, perform liver transplant surgery on Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple, has yet to mutter a word on the topic.

June 24, 2009  5:30 PM

Appzero dares Microsoft to dive into server app virtualization

Posted by: badarrow

One of the many zillion-dollar questions in the cloud computing hypefest is when server-side application virtualization will take off.

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