Recent Articles
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The Quiet Revolution in IT Services and How It Will Affect IT Service Providers
There is a quiet revolution going in terms of how IT services are delivered that is going to have a substantial impact on the revenue streams of solution providers. The first of three new trends in the IT services space is a wave of increased automation that has the potential to eliminate a lot of…
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Sun Increases Funds for Channel Marketing, Nixes Rebates for Up Front Discounts
Sun Microsystems has pumped up marketing dollars available to partners and is offering new upfront discounts on Sun products to new accounts, the company announced Aug. 20. Sun said in prepared statement that it made the changes as part of Sun’ s commitment to its Partner-first strategy. Changes include: An augmented Partner Growth Fund (PGF)…
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Intel Atom Goes Dual-Core for Laptops
Intel revealed the Intel Atom 330 Aug. 20, a dual-core version of its Atom "Diamondville" processor for low-cost "nettop" PCs. Like the Intel Atom 230, the Intel Atom 330 uses 45-nm technology, features a 533MHz front side bus and is designed to work with Intel’s 945GC chip set (the 82945GC northbridge and 82801GB southbridge). Unlike…
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Intel Gives Prices for Ultralow-Voltage Chips, Laptops
Intel posted new prices for Intel’s mobile processors, including its latest low-voltage and ultralow-voltage processors, the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700 (1.8GHz), L7500 (1.6GHz) and L7300 (1.4GHz) have 4MB Level 2 caches and support for an 800MHz FSB. The $316 L7700 costs as much…
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Tech Data: IT Spending Flat
IT distributor Tech Data missed Wall Street’s profit expectations, but said its second quarter was a good one, relatively speaking, as IT spending remained flat. Tech Data reported earnings of $23.7 million or 45 cents a share on net sales of $6.17 billion. Earnings for the same period a year ago reached $7.2 million or…
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IT Distributors End Free Ride on Shipping
IT distributor Tech Data will institute a $2 handling fee on all orders shipped, the company revealed during its earnings announcement and call Aug. 21. Tech Data’s move follows a similar one announced by its larger rival Ingram Micro earlier in August. A third IT distributor, Synnex, is "taking a wait-and-see approach" to adding such…