Amid Maoists’ agitation aimed at dislodging him from power, Premier Madhav Kumar Nepal has challenged them to form government by proving majority in Parliament instead of pursuing politics of deceit and rejected their charge that his administration was a “puppet” installed with “foreign” support.
Those “who can show a majority in (601-member) Parliament will form [...]
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Nepal PM challenges Maoists to prove majority for forming Govt
October 10th, 2009 |
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VBrick Challenges Cisco with New Enterprise Video Server
October 5th, 2009 |
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Hot on the heels of Cisco’s $3 billion bid to buy Tandberg, enterprise IP video provider VBrick launches VBrick Enterprise Media System. VEMS is a video server loaded with software that looks at the bandwidth connections of the offices the video is being shuttled to and routes users to the best location to receive video content without impacting the performance of other networked applications. VBrick, which already placed VEMS with Vodafone, is looking to tackle market leader Cisco.
– Seeking to challenge networking giant Cisco Systems in the enterprise video arena, VBrick Oct. 5 launched an Internet protocol-based video management system for streaming live and on-demand video for big businesses.
VBrick Enterprise Media System (VEMS) is the VBrick Reflector server loaded with so…
New Delhi urged to face up to ‘enormous’ Games challenges
October 2nd, 2009 |
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The head of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) believes there are “enormous” challenges facing the event and urged New Delhi organisers on Friday to hire a slew of foreign experts to ensure the Games are a success. CGF President Mike Fennell, speaking ahead of the one-year countdown for
Oracle Says It Will Keep Sun Hardware, Challenges IBM
September 11th, 2009 |
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In a full-page newspaper advertisement, Oracle officials say they will spend more money than Sun on developing and selling SPARC/Solaris hardware once they close the $7.4 billion deal for Sun. In the same ad, they also challenge IBM, which along with HP has been aggressively courting Sun customers who may have concerns about Oracles bid.
– Since first announcing their plans to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4
billion, Oracle officials have been dogged by questions surrounding
their plans for Suns hardware business.
Though Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had said that he planned to keep
that part of Suns business, concerns remained. Rivals s…
Extreme Networks Warranty Program Challenges Cisco, HP
August 3rd, 2009 |
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Extreme Networks is unveiling a new limited lifetime warranty program for a number of fixed edge switches and an Ethernet port extender as it looks to differentiate itself from larger competitors such as Cisco and HPs ProCurve business. The warranty comes at a time when the global recession is forcing businesses to look at such aspects as price and TCO when considering technology buys.
– Extreme Networks officials are hoping that a new limited lifetime warranty
on selective switches and an Ethernet port extender will give the company
greater traction in the highly competitive networking space.
Extreme Networks on Aug. 3 announced the
warranty program on new purchases of its Summ…
Microsoft Sees Financial Benefits, Tech Challenges in Yahoo Deal
July 29th, 2009 |
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Microsoft could benefit financially in the long run from its July 29 partnership agreement with Yahoo, but CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledges that a collaboration between the two companies will bring technological challenges. Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, could also benefit immensely from access to extra data from Yahoo’s sites. A number of analysts suggest the deal will ultimately prove beneficial to Microsoft’s long-term operations.
– Microsoft
has painted its newly minted Yahoo partnership as the perfect vehicle for
driving search and advertising revenue, while saving the company cash in the
long term. However, Microsoft has also indicated that the transition will
present challenges from a technical perspective.
During a J…
ooVoo Video Conferencing with Desktop Sharing Challenges Skype, Cisco, Google
July 27th, 2009 |
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Startup OoVoo breaks free from the consumer mold by offering its video conferencing service to small businesses. The software, aimed at messaging and collaboration solutions from Skype, Cisco and Google, includes desktop screen sharing to help users better share content. The software also has granular pricing, starting at a free two-way plan with conversation caps of 1 minute and ending at six-way high-definition video conferencing with fat file sharing and unlimited 5-minute chats.
– Video chat startup ooVoo is making a bid to move from the consumer sector to
the turf of such powers as Cisco, Skype and Google with a new version of its
software that delivers to small businesses video conferencing and screen
sharing for up to six users at once.
For $39.95 a month, OoVoo Versio…
John Morton: Meeting Challenges with Spirit
July 23rd, 2009 |
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In the Spirit, we’re always having a good time. Keep that in mind when challenges present themselves.
How to Overcome Multihomed ISP Link Challenges
July 15th, 2009 |
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Organizations today continue to battle problems related to delivering continuous uptime and high availability of applications delivered over the WAN or Internet. The biggest challenges are faced by small and medium-sized enterprises that need to provide high availability for their applications, but are often faced with limited IT budgets that challenge their ability to have continuous network uptime. As Knowledge Center contributor Marc Goodman explains, an affordable solution can be the deployment of a multihomed network by utilizing WAN link controllers for managing multiple and diverse network links.
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many organizations today, business-critical applications that had
previously been accessed locally are now being accessed over the WAN,
creating new concerns over reliable and secure access, as well as
appropriate and cost-effective bandwidth allocation. WAN connectivity
failures and traffic…
Microsoft Office 2010 Debuts, Challenges Google Apps
July 13th, 2009 |
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Microsoft Office 2010 will be offered as a free online service to Microsoft Live subscribers, directly challenging Google Apps and other free cloud-based applications. Although Microsoft’s market dominance has traditionally been centered on the desktop, the products rolling out at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans show that Microsoft is increasingly seeing cloud-based applications and productivity suites as the wave of the future.
– Microsoft Office 2010, the newest version of Microsoft’s office productivity
suite, will be launched as a free online service for subscribers of Microsoft
Live. The move is a potentially radical one for Microsoft a
company whose market dominance has traditionally been based on desktop-centered
a…