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Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM, was awarded a compensation package valued at roughly $20.96 million in 2008, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Also, AT&T will spend more than $11 billion to expand and improve its 3G wireless and wireline broadband networks in 2009. (6:10) Microsoft slashes prices for enterprise customers
Ashley: We’ve finally seen a crack in Microsoft’s ability to command whatever license fees they see fit from customers, with the drop in prices for Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Subscription Agreements. AT&T to purchase thousands of green vehicles
AT&T plans to purchase more than 15,000 vehicles running on alternative fuels over the next 10 years, with many of them coming from U.S. auto makers. Countries move forward on cybercrime treaty
Countries are ratifying the only global cybercrime treaty slower than expected, but many are closer to implementing it, a senior Council of Europe official said Wednesday. Google blocks popular iPhone SMS app
Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it. Layoffs leave orphaned hardware, unused software licenses
Pat Beemer, IT director for Seattle Lighting, has a lot of orphaned computer hardware and unused software licenses on his hands -- the result of what he calls "serious" layoffs at the company. Motorola ships rugged enterprise phone
Motorola has begun shipping a compact phone aimed at mobile enterprise workers across a number of different vertical sectors. Relationship with VMware will not change, EMC chief says
EMC and VMware plan to continue working together closely in the years ahead, said EMC's top executive, dispelling speculation the storage vendor might sell down its stake in the virtualization software company. Virtualization drives management software upgrades
You could name any three management vendors and chances are they'd all be adding support for virtual systems. Yet it may be more difficult to find three that are coupling their virtualization monitoring capabilities with advanced analytics. University seeks Ethernet-like wireless behavior
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with a network project leader at a Swiss university. Ha Nguyen of the Universite de Lausanne, near Geneva, Switzerland, displayed a practical attitude toward 802.11n deployment issues as he discussed the symmetrical nature of true business traffic and the real reason for the latest centralized vs. distributed architecture debate: cost. Today on Microsoft Subnet
Routine patches include three for Windows, one critical; Dancing Woz vs. dancing Ballmer: you vote; Fed CIO Vivek Kundra: will she opt for Google Apps or Office Live? Today on Cisco Subnet
Cisco blade server coming Monday? Dow Jones Industrial Average: Cisco may have the right stuff, says blogger Brad Reese; Should you bother with one of Cisco's new wireless certs? | 
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