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Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz
There is still a lot of paper in business—forms, contracts and templates to correspondence and even e-mail—especially for small businesses who find the investments in a paperless office hard to swallow. But the potential savings from converting much of the hard copies to digital copies can make a clear case for adding a scanner and…
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Novell’s Linux Income Increases
After an unexpected delay of eight days, Novell finally announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2007 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31, 2007. Novell reported net revenue for the overall year of $932 million, a loss of $26 million or 8 cents per share, although the company also reported 69 percent…
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Marketing Programs Vary Widely Among VARs
While many solution providers believe that increased market share and new customers will be important drivers for their growth next year, many observers say that VARs don’t do as good a job as they think they do or that they could do with marketing. That may be because of shifting and differing goals between what…
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Staples’ Reusable RFID Trial Expanding
A one-store RFID trial that Staples ran this summer with reusable tags was successful enough to convince the retailer to expand it to four other stores in mid-February of 2008, said the retail chain’s IT executive in charge of the project. The initial Staples Canada trial was an attempt to see if the key argument…
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eWEEK Channel Labs Walk-Through: Toshiba Satellite Pro A210
The A210 is an attractive value for businesses looking to save some money, yet not forfeit features.
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VARs Still Wary of Vista
VARs are still reluctant to upgrade either themselves or their clients to Vista despite Microsoft’s recent deluge of service packs, release candidates and the early release of Office 2007 Service Pack 1. Since Dec. 5, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 RC1, Windows XP SP3 RC1, Windows Vista SP1, and Dec. 11 the Redmond, Wash.-based…
