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Dell to Launch AMD Server
Dell will use Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron chip. The Austin, Texas, PC maker has long been an Intel shop. But it intends to change that later in 2006, when it will begin offering a multi-processor AMD Opteron server. Dell, which announced its first-quarter earnings May 18, said in a statement that it would begin offering…
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A New Kind of Data Need for a New Kind of Retailer
As retailers find dollars by having certain stores specialize in various ethnic or lifestyle segments, they are often neglecting to update their store data to match, so finds a new Forrester Research report. This is a matter of frustration among some consumer goods suppliers, who now need to know more about those customers. A product…
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Toshiba to Add Wireless VOIP
Toshiba America will start selling wireless voice-over-IP phones and a wireless PDA to work with its Stratus CIX series of IP PBX equipment, the company said. The products, two wireless phones and a wireless combination phone/PDA using Windows Mobile, are available through Toshiba dealers starting May 18. The company did not release pricing for the…
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Dell Needs the Channel
The channel is Dell Inc.’s mistress, and it’s time for the direct-selling vendor to make honest-to-goodness partners out of solution providers. For years, Dell and solution providers have worked together in an illicit back-door relationship, although the Round Rock, Texas, vendor has had tepid official forays into the channel now and then. All the while,…
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Injecting RFID into the Immigration Mess, Literally
Applied Digital CEO Scott Silverman was a guest the week of May 15 on a Fox News show called Fox & Friends First, and he was there to give the immigration debate a shot in the arm. Or to implant his company in the middle of the controversy. No matter which wordplay is used, he…
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Dell Could Trigger PC Price War
Dell appears poised to spark another PC price war. But analysts say that offering lower prices alone isn’t likely to help the world’s largest PC maker end a run of lackluster financials. While Dell’s decision to use an AMD chip for multiprocessor enterprise systems dominated the headlines, the day after for the PC giant brought…
