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  • Common Sense on Vista Adoption

    Every time a new version of Windows comes out we dance the same dance about adoption rates. Microsoft promises large benefits to its enterprise customers. ISVs gear up support. Advocates for alternative operating systems talk about how this will be the version that gives them their foot in the door. With Vista it’s basically the…

  • Intel Announces WiMax Baseband Card

    Intel has developed a WiMax baseband card designed for the carrier market that’s intended to give equipment manufacturers a platform for the creation of WiMax base stations. The new baseband card allows companies to make base station equipment for both the industrial and residential markets. It meets standards including the AdvancedMC hardware specification and the…

  • How to Fight Managed Services Commoditization

    As distributors carve a role for themselves in the smoldering managed services space, some proponents of the model have reason to worry. Those proponents include the reasonably exclusive group of solution providers that since the turn of the millennium has negotiated the frustration and reaped the advantages of pioneering a business model. On the one…

  • Report: CDW, Direct-Market Distributors Running on Strong Margins

    Direct-market IT distributors such as CDW, Insight and PC Connection are outpacing their peers on the Nasdaq and S&P boards on strong margins and acquisitions, says a report by Raymond James and Associates. The distributors beat their market averages in growth during the third quarter but face challenges and slower growth in the next three…

  • Iomega Unveils New Desktop Autoloader

    Data storage and protection company Iomega has begun shipping the second-generation version of its popular desktop autoloader, which uses removable disks for data archiving. The REV Loader 560 incorporates standard hard drive components and removable technology, and provides access to 560GB of native storage. Up to eight removable disks can fit in the compact device,…

  • Bin Laden Webmaster Arrested

    Early Tuesday morning, reports started circulating that German police had arrested a man they had accused of being Osama bin Laden’s webmaster. It was at that moment that I realized how different a war this is and how the Internet—and particularly its multimedia-friendly Web component—has truly changed all.Imagine if during World War II, French law…

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