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T-Mobile to Announce 3G Service
T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson will announce T-Mobile’s move into 3G service at a press conference in New York on Oct. 6. Dotson will report on the results of the company’s recent spectrum auction win, including substantial space on the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands, and the expansion of available spectrum in the company’s 1.9GHz…
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Arrow to Acquire Niche Distributor Alternative Technologies
Arrow Electronics is broadening its solution scope. The distributor announced on Oct. 5 its intention to purchase Alternative Technology, a niche distributor with specialties in infrastructure, networking and security. The acquisition, expected to be fulfilled sometime in November, does little to Arrow’s numbers—Alternative Technology made $330 million in sales in 2005 compared to Arrow’s $11.1…
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Security Vendors Reject Microsoft’s Call for Innovation
Microsoft contends that its partners should embrace the security features being added to its Vista operating system instead of complaining about them, but software makers including Symantec and McAfee said that the company’s mandate for new product innovation only benefits its own interests. At the crux of the dispute is Microsoft’s contention that controversial security…
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Samsung Makes a Play in the Commercial Channel
Samsung has always been known for its high-tech, high-end offerings for the consumer market. That is about to change. The Irvine, Calif., vendor has begun paying closer attention to the commercial channel. At the IT ChannelVision conference in Phoenix, Samsung staked out a prime spot of the showroom floor to show off its latest wares,…
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Force10 Extends Switch Line to Wiring Closets
Force10 Networks on Oct. 9 will make its move out of the data center and into the wiring closet when it introduces its first LAN switches for enterprise networks. The San Jose, Calif., company, a mainstay in many high performance computing and large data center environments, will introduce its new S50V and S25 wiring closet…
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5 Most Important Technologies: Yesterday and Tomorrow
As part of its 5 Year Anniversary special report, Baseline magazine asked two longtime information-technology market watchers—David F. Carr, Baseline‘s technology editor, and Michael Vizard, editorial director of the Ziff Davis Enterprise Group—to, respectively, tell us what five technologies had the biggest impact on business over the past five years and what five technologies might…
