Recent Articles
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GPS Helps Solution Providers Navigate Rough Economy
Solution providers trying to find their way through today’s rough economy might want to give GPS technology a shot. Either embedded into automobile dashboards or as portable devices, GPS screens have become a commonplace tool for drivers who once relied on maps and their sense of direction to get to their destination. Becoming even more…
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Tech Companies Struggling to Survive
By Caroline Humer and Anupreeta Das – Analysis NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology companies may be the next group swept up in a restructuring wave that began on Wall Street. Purchases of computer hardware, software and services have already been affected by the global credit crisis that has slowed lending, and a…
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Nortel Posts Huge Loss, Sets Further Cost Cuts
By Wojtek Dabrowski TORONTO (Reuters) – Nortel Networks Corp reported a $3.4 billion quarterly loss on Monday and announced a round of sweeping new cost cuts, including 1,300 layoffs, as a global economic downturn erodes its business and strains its balance sheet. The economic downturn also forced Nortel, North America’s biggest maker of telephone gear,…
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Finding Good News in Bad Jobs Numbers
Even for a closet nerd like me, the amount of economic-related data we have been fed over the last few months has been overwhelming. The fact that 95 percent of it is depressing doesn’t help either. That’s why I was tickled to come across this factoid: “According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, through…
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Parrish: NetApp Committed to the Channel
Refuting persistent rumors and speculation that NetApp will shake off its solution providers in favor of a direct sales model, newly installed global channel chief Julie Parrish says the storage vendor is committed to growing its channel and working with solution providers to battle competitors head on. “I don’t think [NetApp] would have hired senior…
