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  • Dell Products Available at Staples

    Small businesses will soon be able to buy a Dell PCs, once only available directly from the manufacturer, at Staples’ 1,400 office supply stores and from the retailer’s Web site. Dell’s deal with Staples, announced Oct. 22, follows the Round Rock, Texas OEM’s moves earlier this year to change from a direct-only model to one…

  • Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization

    Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch…

  • M&A for SMB VARs

    While the CDW deal to go private was only just completed in October, the fervor over buying and selling channel companies is far from over. Witness the soft-launch this week of the M&A Forum, a new Web site and Internet service designed to bring together buyers and sellers of solution provider businesses. “Think of Match.com…

  • Exorcize PC Demons for Free on Halloween

    Two vendors want to know: “Is your computer possessed? Does it seem like your hard drive’s haunted?” If so, they’re offering a day of free technical support to cleanse PCs from evil and help users rid themselves of zombies, botnets, viruses and other malware on Halloween. CyberDefender, an Internet security company that uses a client-to-client…

  • AMD Posts $400M Q3 Loss

    Advanced Micro Devices posted a net loss of $396 million, down from a $136 million gain a year ago, and the chip maker’s fourth straight fiscal quarter loss. AMD posted $1.6 billion total revenue for the third quarter—an improvement of 18 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007 and nearly 23 percent better than…

  • CompUSA Hires Former VAR to Oversee SMB Biz

    CompUSA has hired the president of a Dallas area solution provider to oversee its SMB efforts. The retailer said it has hired Bob Sayewitz to operate its business sales and services and oversee the implementation of the company’s SMB strategy. Sayewitz most recently served as president and founder of IT solutions provider Command Solutions which…

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