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  • Video game sales up 8 percent in 2004

    US sales of video games in 2004 kept pace with the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday, even though aging game consoles have yet to be replaced by their successors.

  • Vista struggling to match XP sales

    Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.

  • More marketing dollars will sell Vista: Ballmer

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the software giant needs to spend more on marketing in order to sell more copies of Vista and has hinted that sizable increase in its marketing budget is on the horizon.

  • Research points to CRM rebound

    The market for customer relationship management applications grew by 10 percent in 2004, spurred by the uptake of on-demand software, according to a report released on Tuesday by AMR Research.

  • HP discloses strategy for recovery

    Hewlett-Packard is on the road to recovery and focusing on markets that will help grow revenue by 4 percent to 6 percent in fiscal 2007, CEO Mark Hurd told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday.

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  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • Who guards the guards: Storage

    Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

  • Sapping the on-demand party dry?

    Does SAP have what it takes to succeed in the on-demand space?

  • IDC: Linux PC sales to hit US$10 billion by 2008

    Sales of new and used PCs running the Linux operating system will reach US$10 billion by 2008, market researcher IDC predicted Wednesday.

  • Asia's open source hangup

    One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia.

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  • No rush to move into new Office

    The new version of Microsoft's widespread Office software package won't likely spur immediate mass upgrades among businesses upon its release, analysts said, due in part to a complex set of added features.

  • Tablet PC shipments fizzle out

    Despite a much-hyped launch and an influx of new vendors, tablet PCs are not exactly flying off the shelves, according to new figures from Canalys, which says Microsoft is to blame.

  • Handhelds continue steady slide

    Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.

  • Tablet PCs off to solid start

    Shipments of tablet PCs topped 72,000 units in the fourth quarter of last year, and will "grow considerably" this year, research firm IDC said Friday.

  • Dell customers want XP, not Vista

    After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.

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