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Best Buy Expects to Miss Targets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Best Buy Co Inc (BBY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) cut its fiscal 2008 profit outlook on Friday, saying it expects its fourth-quarter sales to miss its own target on lower-than-expected January sales growth, sending its shares down 4.5 percent. "The macroeconomic environment grew more challenging after the holidays," said Jim Muehlbauer, Best…
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Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions
Probably the first thing anyone wants to know about Lenovo’s Linux portable system is, “Does it actually work”? The short answer is yes, everything important works. Lenovo sent us a ThinkPad T61 for evaluation, which by the way is an excellent system in its own right, and it came with Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop…
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Analyst: Microsoft Needs to Train More Partners
As Microsoft gears up for the Feb. 27 launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008—the biggest enterprise launch in the company’s history—it is aggressively readying its partners to handle the wave of demand it hopes will be generated for these new products. So important is partner readiness that Allison Watson, corporate…
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Ingram Micro Forecast Disappointing
SEATTLE, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Ingram Micro Inc, the world’s largest computer products distributor, forecast sales and profit in the current quarter would fall short of Wall Street estimates due to market weakness in North America and Europe, sending its shares down 4 percent. For the current quarter, Ingram Micro forecast net income of $63…
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Tech Data Goes Mobile with Fujitsu PCs
Tech Data will add Fujitsu’s notebooks, laptops, and convertible, ultramobile and tablet PCs to its portfolio, becoming the only U.S. distributor to offer Fujitsu’s entire line of hardware. The distributor already offers Fujitsu’s server and storage products, including the vendor’s Primergy servers and Eternus SAN storage systems, said Richard McCormack, vice president of marketing at…