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Acer Plans to Take Notebook, Netbook Space by Storm
Acer expects its global PC market share to increase by 2 to 3 percent in an economy that has brought greatly lowered expectations for PC sales and shipments for 2009, and that has companies such as Dell and Lenovo looking at reorganizations and other measures. In spite of that market share gain, Acer told Reuters…
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Cisco, Pelco Get Physical with Joint Security Solutions
As physical security technology shifts from analog to a digital format delivered over IP networks, Cisco has teamed up with physical security equipment leader Pelco to drive wider adoption of physical security technology. The new technology partnership between Pelco and Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit (WNBU) will allow Pelco to deliver Cisco networking-based physical security…
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125,000 Tech Jobs Lost in January
Since the beginning of the year, technology vendors have eliminated more than 124,000 jobs as weak earnings and dismal revenue forecasts force companies into conservative, constricted postures. This makes January the worst month of job losses since the recession began. In the four months Channel Insider has been tracking technology job losses, nearly 205,000 technology…
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During Layoffs, Superior ID Management Is an Imperative
If you got a Starbucks gift card, you’d better use it before your local high-octane java store closes. Under pressure from sagging earnings, the premium coffeehouse earlier this week announced that it would close 300 stores and lay off more than 7,000 workers. Starbucks isn’t alone in shedding workers. Microsoft, Boeing, AstraZeneca, Sprint and Home…
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A Cisco Server: Sheer Brilliance or Act of Desperation?
Cisco Systems’ announcement that it will launch a line of servers is drawing mixed reactions from solution providers, as they wait to see how the networking giant’s move affects the overall data center market. For years, Cisco has dominated the data networking market, making nearly $40 billion a year in revenue mostly from the sale…
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Competition to Increase Among Master MSPs
Interest in subscription-based IT services is growing, but many solution providers that have yet to embrace managed services or software as a service (SAAS) still don’t quite know how to make the transition. For them, partnering may be the best approach. With that in mind, Network Depot has launched a service that takes a lot…