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Yahoo is set to push its Desktop Search program into general availability on Wednesday. Yahoo Desktop Search includes a new feature called LiveWords, which allows people to highlight text within documents and click a button to search for those words in other documents on their hard drive. More…

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How much did the top executives of IT companies earned? Oracle’s Larry Ellison was one of the top. Last year, he got $7.48 million in salary and another $66.89 million for exercising his stock options.

IBM’s top executive, Sam Palmisano, got $6.84 million, plus another $2.81 million in stock options vested.

Microsoft’s top too executives were very cheap in comparison. Both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Read the rest of this entry »

I am now in Microsoft main headquarters in Redmond area ( Puget Sound), Washington attending a summit. The following fun facts were distributed to the attendees:

People:
- Total number of employees worldwide : over 55,000
- Average number of visitors greeted in a month in its offices : 29,000
- Average age of employees : 35
- Number of employees in the United States : 35,000
- Number of employees in the main HQ in Puget Sound : 25,000
- Number of resumes received by Microsoft in 2004: 347,206

Facilities :
- Total square footage of buildings owned and leased worldwide in 2004: 16,900,635
- Total number of buildings occupied by Microsoft in Main HQ, Puget Sound: 87
- Total number of copies processed by the Copy Center: 70 million Read the rest of this entry »

Intel® Desktop Boards Executive Series was created specifically for the digital office experience. Whether building a PC for a small business or large enterprise, the Executive Series has the right board for every application. More..

HP’s IT Consolidation solutions reduce the complexity of IT environments while lowering costs and freeing resources for innovation throughout the solution lifecycle. More..

Resolution is one of the most important components to be considered in chosing a multimedia projector, you hear this term anytime you are looking for a display device. But what does it mean? In short, resolution is the number of pixels, from side to side and top to bottom, which make up your image. For example, an SVGA projector has 800 pixels from side to side and 600 pixels from top to bottom for a total of 480,000 pixels. More pixels means a higher ‘pixel density’ and a crisper image.

So how do you know how many pixels are right for you? For some applications, like projecting spreadsheets or documents, you need to have a higher pixel density. For other applications, like simple PowerPoint® presentations, you do not.

Click here for a brief description of the most common uses for each resolution.

India is still head and shoulders above the competition in global sourcing, with $17.2 billion of software exports for the year ended March 2005, according to a recent Gartner study.

Gartner predicts that by 2007, total global offshore spending on IT services will reach $50 billion. More…

Cisco Systems on Wednesday released a new computer networking and virtualization architecture it calls VFrame. The architecture combines a set of InfiniBand-based SFSs (server fabric switches) with the VFrame virtualization software suite. Much of this is based on Cisco’s acquisition of TopSpin, though the company has gone to significant lengths to rebrand and extend the technology in time for this announcement.

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A lot of posts has been made in the Microsoft MSDN forums and Microsoft Philippine website due to the latest anti-piracy push by the BSA. Here are some of the links that might be interesting.

-On Using Windows Home in an Internet Cafe

-The Internet Cafe Rental Rights Agreement

-51 top Questions on Microsoft Licensing

-Everything You need to Know about Volume Licensing

Of course, we would also be happy to answer any questions.

The New York Times reviews the latest IBM Lenovo Thinkpad Z series, and thinks it is a winner. In their words, the Z-series laptop is an extremely attractive wide-screen model, loaded with features, cleverly engineered for light weight and reasonably priced.

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APC Netshelter VX 42U Rack Sytem is guaranteed compatible to all 19″ standard rack mounted servers, switches, routers & storage such as: IBM, HP, Cisco, and 3Com. APC Rack System that fits like a glove!

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HP Coated and HP Heavyweight Coated papers now feature improved coatings that deliver enhanced handling properties. The new media includes improved features and benefits.

HP Coated Paper - Resists ink rub-off/better handleability for less damage to prints, Great image quality—clear and concise line drawings and renderings, Dye and UV compatible – flexibility on ink HP.

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Escalating data growth and demands for storage are quietly burdening IT departments with increased costs and workload. While the cost of disk has plummeted in recent times, the total cost of ownership of storage has steadily risen.

The rise in storage costs can be attributed to the requirement on IT to manage increasing amounts of stored data. In fact, analysts have recently estimated that for every dollar that is spent on storage capacity as much as five dollars is spent managing storage. Read the rest of this entry »