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Microsoft Corp. announced a surge of voluntary reports — more than 150,000 in the past two years — from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software that was often riddled with viruses or malware.

Dell YouthConnect, a global program designed to support education and digital inclusion initiatives for underserved youth, was launched in Beijing today.

Hitachi Dynamic Replicator enables businesses to address recovery needs through a cost effective and scalable solution

Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, has recognized the effective, integrated capabilities of SAP® software in its report titled “Best Practices: Management of Chargeback Claims in Wholesaling.”

Part of the next wave of Office-related products, Microsoft Project 2010 helps customers reduce costs, improve efficiency, and simplify project and portfolio management.

System z "Solution Edition" and Linux Program Can Make It Easier and More Affordable to Enlist the Legendary Performance and Resiliency of the IBM Mainframe

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces it has entered IDC’s Top 100 of Worldwide Packaged Software Vendors.

NEC Corporation and NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation announced today that IDC Frontier Inc. ("IDC Frontier," Note 1) has adopted NEC's enterprise-class server and storage as the dynamic infrastructure for its strategic cloud service business.

Targeting business users and professionals who want to keep connected to people and information on the go

Voting with their IT budgets, organizations choose SAS Analytics far more often than any other analytics supplier. And even as technology budgets tighten in current tough economic conditions, business leaders are increasing their investment in analytics to remain competitive and position themselves for an eventual turnaround.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced the industry’s first set of commercial “cloud” services and integrated products for the enterprise. This will give clients a reliable way to standardize IT functions that are rapidly becoming too costly or difficult to use.

SanDisk pSSD Drives Feature nCache –Large Non Volatile Write Cache Technology To Boost Random Write Performance Five Times Over Steady State Performance

Available in 8 and 16GB Capacities, the SanDisk Netbook SDHC Card Enables Netbook Users to Increase Storage While Maintaining Size and Cost Benefits

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new social networking community designed to help its partners more easily connect and collaborate with each other from anywhere around the world to bring new technologies to market and close sales faster and more efficiently.

Cast Iron Systems and HP today announced they are partnering to offer integration services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reduce costs by leveraging software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within their existing infrastructures and applications.

Akamai is accelerating the official festival website and providing HD video delivery, allowing global film enthusiasts to view highlights of the 2009 festival

AT&T announced today that it will soon expand its portfolio of embedded 3G mini laptops - and make them available in AT&T stores nationwide.

HP today announced the integration of VMware vSphere™ 4 into its HP Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio.The integration includes a broad range of related products and services designed to enable customers to change the economics of their technology infrastructures.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it expanded its leadership in the overall storage software market according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, March 2009, which also reported 15.1 percent year-over-year revenue growth in that market. This growth outpaces both the market and all competitors.

Next-generation SUSE Linux Enterprise platform delivers cost-effective, mission-critical computing across the enterprise, including physical, virtual, appliance and cloud deployments