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1 in 3 The ratio of solution providers that say the IT talent shortage is a serious or critical issue affecting their ability to do business. 45% Percentage of solution providers that say competing low-wage, offshore IT services are hampering their ability to pay for high-priced domestic IT talent. 68% Percentage of solution providers that…
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Best Buy Slashes Profit Outlook
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Best Buy Co Inc, the No. 1 U.S. electronics chain, slashed its fiscal 2009 profit forecast on Wednesday, driven by weak consumer spending heading into the crucial holiday selling season. Best Buy’s announcement comes just two days after smaller electronics retail rival Circuit City Stores Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.…
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Intel’s Shock Warning Sound Alarm for Tech Sector
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chip giant Intel Corp cut its fourth-quarter revenue forecast by about 14 percent citing weak demand across the world and in all its products, indicating the economic crisis is set to hurt computer sales in the holiday season and beyond. The shock warning hammered tech shares, which had already tumbled earlier…
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Recession-Proof Your Technology Lineup with Videoconferencing
While sales of videoconferencing technology, like everything else, have been affected by the down economy in 2008, videoconferencing still remains a strong play for IT solution providers looking for recession-proof products and technologies to carry themselves and their customers through tough times. A case in point is videoconferencing vendor Tandberg, a 100 percent channel company…
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Is Unified Communications Still a Hot Channel Product?
The reports are everywhere that small and midsize businesses are cutting back on IT purchases due to the impact of the financial crisis and continuing global economic downturn. Many industry watchers have said unified communications will be a hot technological area for SMBs going forward—with products from names like Cisco Systems and Microsoft. For NEC…
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Cisco Goes to the Edge with New Router
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems launched a new edge router aimed at improving Web speeds as more consumers download movies online and access the Internet with mobile phones. The network equipment maker, which forecasts Internet traffic to nearly double every two years through 2012, said the ASR 9000 edge router would provide six…
