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Gateway Recalls Faulty Battery Packs
Gateway announced June 19 that it is voluntarily recalling about 14,000 laptop battery packs that were sold during a three-month period in 2003. The Irvine, Calif., PC vendor is working with the U.S. CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) and the company will replace the faulty battery packs for free. The lithium-ion battery packs can overheat…
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Apparent Networks, Polycom Team Up on VOIP Testing
Apparent Networks and Polycom will team up to help small and midsize enterprises cost-effectively perform predeployment assessments to determine whether an IP network is capable of effectively handling voice traffic. Starting on June 20, the two companies will provide to Polycom service providers a new tool that allows them to offer a hosted network-readiness assessment…
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HP Takes a ‘Holistic’ Approach to Reinventing Services Business
LAS VEGAS—Like other top-tier OEMs, Hewlett-Packard has been deeply involved in the services business for years, and it is becoming an increasingly important and profitable part of the business as revenues reach into the billions of dollars. When HP opened its annual Technology Forum & Expo June 18, most of the talks and breakout sessions…
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IGS Gets Channel Religion
IBM has been promising to unleash the potential of IBM Global Services in the channel beginning with a program that started four years ago when IGS signed its first partnership with Ingram Micro. Unfortunately, the success of that effort has been a bit spotty due largely to the cultural hurdles that exist within IGS and…
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Iomega to Offer Managed E-Mail Security
Iomega got on the map through the Zip drives that over the years became a part of numerous IT environments, but the vendor is working hard to transform itself into more than the "Zip drive company." On Tuesday, the San Diego-based vendor launched an e-mail security managed service in partnership with Postini, of San Carlos,…
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This Isn’t Your Father’s IBM
ORLANDO, Fla.—Though IBM is often viewed as a stodgy old technology giant focused primarily on delivering old-school solutions for big, plodding enterprises, the company continues to churn out new ideas and technologies that many never see. When I think IBM, I typically think mainframe, COBOL, CICS, SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web services, Java middleware and Linux.…
