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10 Technologies and 20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008
One of the benefits of working in a medium that covers technology every day is that you get an early look at a lot of up-and-coming technology that offers a lot of promise. Of course, most of that promise will never be realized if the companies building the technology never develop an effective route to…
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Best Buy Bucks Trend
Aggressive growth plans, sales of higher-margin goods and an increase in average sales prices all helped to boost Best Buy’s latest financial results. The retailer reported net earnings of $228 million for its fiscal third quarter ended on Dec. 1, 2007. This compares with $150 million for the prior-year third quarter. Total quarterly revenue increased…
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AMD Tries to Learn Its Lessons
In the months leading up to the launch of Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona, company executives continually harped on its design as distinguishing it from Intel’s quad-core offerings. When 2007 began, AMD looked poised to follow up on the success of its dual-core Opteron chip by manufacturing a quad-core processor that would…
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HP Partner Enhancements Focus on Storage, Government
Despite having no worldwide channel chief, Hewlett-Packard has soldiered on with more changes to its PartnerOne channel program. Stacey Wueste Davis, vice president of Solution Partners Organization partner development and programs, is the de facto head of HP’s worldwide channel program, after Jim McDonnell left his position as senior vice president and general manager of…
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Dell Announces Ubuntu 7.10 PCs with DVD Playback
Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing Dec. 19 that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs. According to Dell spokesperson Anne B. Camden, the “Dell Inspiron 530N desktop and Inspiron 1420N notebook…
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Software Sales Boost Oracle
BOSTON (Reuters)—Oracle Corp said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4 percent. The world’s No. 2 publicly held software maker reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or 25…
