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Ikon Office to Cut 250 Jobs, Take Charge
(Reuters) – Office equipment distributor Ikon Office Solutions (IKN) said it will cut about 265 jobs in the United States to reduce costs. In a regulatory filing, the company said its board has also approved a plan to reduce the number of its Off-site Managed Services business (LDS) locations in the United States to 47,…
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HP Lowers Cost of Entry into Point-of-Sale Systems
When you think about the number of small business customers that still rely on electronic cash registers, you can see the outstanding opportunity for the channel. Of course, one of the reasons that there are so many companies still using electronic cash registers is the price of PC-based point-of-sale systems. Fully configured, the average PC-based…
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Hiring Managers: You Want How Much $$$?
Monster.com, the world’s largest online job listing portal, has tens of thousands of IT jobs listed. Hotjobs.com returns more than 27,000 IT, software development and telecommunication jobs. And Dice.com, the job site devoted exclusively to technology, lists more than 86,000 open positions. That’s just skimming the surface of a preliminary technology job search. Tens of…
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Going Green with Managed Services
by Pedro Pereira Going Green with Managed Services by Pedro Pereira The appeal of managed services for solution providers centers around the reduction in costs afforded by the ability to monitor and manage IT environments remotely. For end users, the attraction has to do with a combination of cost savings and increased computing reliability. In…
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CSC Launches First Brand Advertising Campaign
BOSTON (Reuters) – Technology services company Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to launch the first brand advertising campaign in its 50-year history in a bid to boost its profile. Rivals IBM (IBM), Accenture Ltd (ACN) and Electronic Data Systems, which was acquired last month by Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ),…
