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Xeroxing the SMB Market
At the turn of the millennium, the future of the company whose very name is synonymous with photocopying appeared uncertain. Xerox, based in Stamford, Conn., was grappling with staggering debt, consecutive quarterly losses and an SEC scandal. That was at a time when some prognosticators had pronounced that paper was dead. You remember those predictions,…
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Tech Data Adds Printing Business Unit
Tech Data has added a printing solutions business unit and realigned several of its other divisions, the IT technology distributor announced Feb. 12. The Clearwater, Fla., company added the printing solutions division—called a “Specialized Business Unit” (SBU)—to create a total of eight such business units. The new Printing Solutions SBU combines printers, manufacturer service agreements,…
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Xerox is Betting on a Different Sort of Partner – VARs,
Xerox is expanding its VAR program to target 600 top partners in the United States with new product offerings that focus on the higher-end of the small and midsize business market. The new program adds seven more printers, MFPs (multi-function printers) and fax printers to the line of products available for VARs to sell. VARs…
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AMD Drops Desktop Chip Prices
Advanced Micro Devices, which announced a change in the pricing structure of several of its dual-core Opteron chips Feb. 7, is preparing to lower the prices on several of its dual-core and single-core desktop Athlon processors. The lower prices will primarily affect the Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker’s dual-core Athlon processors. However, the price restructuring will…
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Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit
While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died…
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VARs, Meet Business Services
TeachMeIT, an IT training and education company, launched a VAR program, giving itself a new route to the enterprise and SMB market and VARs a new route to value-add. The Monmouth Junction, N.J., TeachMeIT bills the program as a means for VARs to add “top-line revenue without adding to the bottom line,” something CompTIA and…
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