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Report: Supply Chain Shows PC Sales Lower Through Q1
If you are seeing PC hardware sales turn cold, you are not alone. FBR Research reports that its supply chain checks indicate that shipments of PCs for both Dell and Hewlett-Packard have slowed down even more than previously reported. “This is the second time in three months that we have cut our PC vendor estimates,”…
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Beyond the Headlines of Disaster Preparedness
Hurricanes such as this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1 but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas, for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coastal residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to…
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Proceed with Caution: The Road to Data Center Virtualization
Efficiencies and power savings often drive virtualization projects, whether they be for the desktop, server, storage or the whole data center. IT solution providers have an array of technologies to choose from now, with VMware, Citrix’s XenSource, Microsoft Hyper-V or hypervisor. But IT consultants and solution providers need to evaluate the opportunity for customer savings…
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Nokia Unveils Rival to Apple’s iPhone
LONDON (Reuters) – Nokia unveiled on Thursday its first touch-screen phone, priced well below Apple’s iPhone model, as the world’s top mobile phone maker hopes to tap consumers for whom the iPhone has been too expensive. Nokia said it would begin selling its 5800 Xpressmusic model shortly, and will price it at 279 euros ($395),…
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Nokia Security Appliance Sale Signals Marketplace Sea Change
As the stock markets were crashing earlier this week, a mysterious blip popped on the IT security radar: Nokia was looking to unload its security appliance unit to an undisclosed investment firm. A few media outlets picked up on this obscure report in The Wall Street Journal and little more news has come from it…