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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:54 AM/EST

SAP Partnership with Intel Boosts Channel

SAP today at Cebit announced that it has significantly expanded its alliance with Intl to create a set of modular servers for system builders that will come with Novell's Suse Linux and SAP's MaxDB pre-installed alongside SAP's Business All-in-One software...

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:51 AM/EST

European Union President Calls for Reform

The president of European Union called for major legislative reforms to spark innovation during an address at the opening of the Cebit conference in Hannover, Germany. Instead of waiting for a technology revolution that force change, Juan Manuel Barroso said...

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:46 AM/EST

Siemens is thinking Unified

So, when you think of the name Siemens you think open, software and unified communications, right? Well, I don't but Siemens seems to be making a sincere effort to build a unified communications platform based on the SIP protocol. The...

Monday, March 03, 2008 11:30 PM/EST

The Pols Take On Technology

HANNOVER, Germany - The March 3 CeBIT Opening Ceremonies here featured addresses by European politicians who used the event as a means of pressing their vision of how European industry could be revitalized, how the evil empire (meaning the United...

Monday, March 03, 2008 1:40 PM/EST

Ballmer Calls for a Fifth Revolution at Cebit

By Mike Vizard Speaking at the Opening of the Cebit Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the industry is on the cusp of what amounts to a fifth revolution in computing that will drive a new wave on innovation. Ballmer...

Monday, March 03, 2008 1:34 PM/EST

Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan

Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years. At this evening's keynote at the opening of the CeBIT computer tradeshow in Germany, Ballmer departed...

Monday, March 03, 2008 1:07 PM/EST

German IT Leader Calls for Consortium Based on Airbus Model

By Mike Vizard Addressing an audience full of European dignitaries that in included the president of France and the chancellor of Germany, the head of Germany's national IT association called for the creation of a European consortium that would be...

Monday, March 03, 2008 10:52 AM/EST

A New Kind of CeBIT

The day before CeBIT dawned gray and threatening, but gave false hope with a brief period of sun. In March, the German weather can be fickle. Fortunately, that was the only fickleness of the day. The-day-before-CeBIT is a period of...

Monday, March 03, 2008 10:02 AM/EST

Microsoft to Monitor Your Home

By Mike Vizard In a sign of things to come, Microsoft announced at CeBit today that it has signed a unique partnership with a provider of Internet services in Germany to monitor power consumption in people's homes. The service, from...

Monday, March 03, 2008 9:59 AM/EST

Microsoft Uses CeBIT to Rock the Channel

By Mike Vizard Solution providers may have just heard the shot fired around the world when Microsoft announced today at CeBIT that it is now offering beta versions of both Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint as online services for all customers....

Monday, March 03, 2008 9:56 AM/EST

Mike Vizard Watches Ballmer Play the Green Card

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to CeBIT today and played a decidedly green card to appeal to the sensibilities of the European community. As part of an overall effort to reduce the amount of power consumed by systems running products...

Monday, March 03, 2008 9:51 AM/EST

Steve Ballmer's Plan to Manage the Clouds

I've been watching and listening the Microsoft execs as they try to come up with their spin on cloud computing. It was Steve Ballmer speaking today (Monday, March 3) at CeBIT in Germany where I think he came the closet...

Monday, March 03, 2008 9:11 AM/EST

Tom Henderson's CeBIT

The following is a blog entry by Tom Henderson. I've traveled with Tom to several CeBITS and I asked him to do some blogging this year on his take on CeBIT 2008. Attendees to the re-vamped CeBIT 2008 Trade Fair...

Monday, March 03, 2008 6:19 AM/EST

Riding the 3G In Europe

OK, I'm old enough to remember when business travel always involved some adept tech juggling as you tried to get an email connection. I mean sufficiently old to remember acoustic couplers stuffed, taped to odd shaped phones and stuffed between...

Monday, March 03, 2008 6:10 AM/EST

Lack of Internal Security Leads to Diplomatic Incident

This is a blog post from my colleague Mike Vizard. The fragility of internal security controls is high on the minds of the German people in the wake of a recent tax scandal. Citizens of Germany that had been hiding...

Monday, March 03, 2008 6:05 AM/EST

APC Due to Replace FM AC Line?

This is a post from my colleague Mike Vizard. He'll be blogging on his own site in a bit. One of the benefits of being part of the Schneider family of companies is that APC can now reach out to...

Monday, March 03, 2008 1:30 AM/EST

What to Expect from CeBIT

HANNOVER - It was a dark and stormy night. As we walked the narrow, rainy streets from the train station, bundled tightly against the blustery cold, Eric Lundquist and I looked like characters out of one of those cold-war spy...

Friday, February 29, 2008 3:30 PM/EST

Heading to CeBIT

For now, at least, this is the nexus of growth in IT.

Friday, February 29, 2008 1:07 PM/EST

Why CeBIT Matters

Europe matters to U.S. technology company vendors and customers more than ever before.



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