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Toshiba Comes to SanDisk’s Rescue
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp is buying $1 billion worth of equipment from joint venture partner SanDisk Corp, shoring up the California-based firm as it faces an unwanted takeover bid from South Korean rival Samsung. SanDisk shares have halved in value this year in the face of a worldwide glut in chips, but analysts…
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Survey Finds Optimism Among Tech Executives
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Despite turmoil in global markets, two-thirds of senior technology industry executives polled in a new survey say the economic slowdown will not hurt them as badly as the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. However, more than three-quarters of respondents say their business has been impacted by the financial crisis,…
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Innovation, Just What the Telepresence Doctor Ordered
Dr. Glenn Hammack isn’t your typical optometrist. He can see over the horizon to treat the ill and infirm around the world. OK, he’s not magical or a “Heroes” cast member. Hammack is a telemedicine specialist. His company—NuPhysicia—builds, supports and services telepresence systems that enable physicians to treat patients in remotes parts of the globe…
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Slowing Economy Opens MSP Opportunities
Managed services and automation software vendors believe the current economic slowdown is opening new SMB opportunities to services providers. “If you don’t look at this as an opportunity, you’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope,” says Frank Coker, president and CEO of CoreConnex, a business automation software vendor. But there is work involved,…
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Avaya Shakes Up North American Channel Role Again
Nine months after Avaya appointed a new North American channel chief, Donny Ward, Avaya has announced that he will be replaced by Carol Neslund, former channel chief of Seagate’s Americas channel. The change comes a little more than 90 days since Jeremy Butt was named Avaya’s first global channel chief. Previously geographic channel chiefs reported…
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DiLullo Appointed President of Avaya’s Asia Region
After a long absence from public view, former SonicWall channel chief John DiLullo has surfaced on the other side of the world as Avaya’s new president of the Asia-Pacific region. DiLullo had taken an undefined position at Avaya several months ago, and there was some speculation that he would eventually be appointed to head its…