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Sun to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs
Sun Microsystems is cutting up to 13 percent of its workforce as part of a growth plan designed to return the struggling tech giant back to profitability. About 4,000 to 5,000 of Sun’s global workforce of about 37,500 will lose their jobs as part of a plan announced May 31 by the Santa Clara, Calif.,…
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The New Thin for Notebooks
A new wave of lightweight notebooks promises to be more livable for the road warrior, by offering more advanced features and built-in optical drives. Among them are new entries from Lenovo and Toshiba, each of which announced on May 31 a new business-oriented notebook line built around a 12.1-inch wide screen and an internal optical…
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Channel Program to Support QuickBooks Enterprise
Intuit has launched an enterprise channel program to support its enterprise solutions and extend their longevity as its customer base, mostly small and midsize businesses, become small and midsize enterprises. “They’re growing with the companies they have,” said Sanjeev Aggarwal, a senior analyst at Yankee Group, in Boston, referring to the SMBs that started using…
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Cittio Uses Slingshot Approach to Managed Services
The transition to managed services can prove costly, time-consuming and frustrating for the average channel company. Just ask Sean McTaggart, president of Triline Solutions in Holland, Mich., which invested upward of $70,000 to make the transition. About $50,000 paid for the technology and the rest went toward staff hours to make it all happen, McTaggart…
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Hefty Turnover Anticipated Among IT Workforce
Nearly half of the U.S. IT workforce is planning to change jobs in the next year, according to a study released May 31 by recruiting and staffing firm Spherion Corporation. “Right now, it is clearly an employee’s market for IT workers,” said Brendan Courtney, senior vice president of Spherion Professional Services, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in…
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Dell’s New XPS Notebooks Built to Entertain
Dell held a press conference in Los Angeles to announce its next-generation XPS PCs, which will include a “mobile entertainment device” that uses aspects of notebook and desktop design. The new mobile Dell XPS M2010 will use articulated hinges to allow the device to fold up and be taken on the road. The Dell XPS…
