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Notebooks Sales Top Desktop PCs
Today’s notebooks are sleek, stylish and eminently portable. They allow your small business to take the company on the road in the space of a carry-on bag. Now, for the first time ever, notebook (laptop) sales have surpassed desktop sales, according to research firm iSuppli. In the third quarter of 2008, notebook PC shipments rose…
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Dimension Data: Tech Consumers Apt to Delay Big IT Projects
Nobody is saying 2009 will be a boom year for technology spending, but there are areas that experts forecast will be recession-proof, such as storage and virtualization. And then there are areas that are expected to suffer. One of those is expected to be systems integration. While services have often been vaunted as a defensive…
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IT Has Great Green Expectations for Obama
When President-Elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he will do so amid great expectations. Seldom has a new administration entered the White House with so much weight on its shoulders. The nation is counting on Obama to tackle a range of heavy issues, from health care to the Iraq war to…
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Factors for Profitability in 2009
2009: Periods of Profit It’s no secret that we live in one of the most challenging business climates seen in the last 30 years. That means that success in 2009 is going to be defined by good planning because the margin for error in these economic conditions is near zero. With that in mind, here…
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Ode to Broken Windows
Let it be said that Windows Vista didn’t fail for a lack of trying. Microsoft had declared the drop-dead end-of-life date for new installations of Window XP—the last generation of the operating system—would come Jan. 31, 2009. Now, under pressure from business consumers and system builders, it’s extending XP’s life once again. System builders can…
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Red Hat Beats Street Estimates Quarterly Revenues Up 20%
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the leader in open source Linux software, announced earnings that beat street estimates after the market closed Monday. In addition, Red Hat issued a strong outlook for Q4. Shares rose 6 percent in afterhours trading. “Our solid financial results this quarter reflect our strong market position as the low-cost, high-value provider…