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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…
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SAP Announces mySAP Suite at Sapphire Conference
ORLANDO, Fla.—SAP AG made some sweeping announcements at its annual Sapphire user conference here May 16-18, led by the introduction of the long-awaited MySAP ERP 2005 suite that sports new vertical industry processes and analytic capabilities baked into the applications. SAP also made the conference the forum to announce a the acquisition of Frictionless Commerce…
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SAP’s Agassi Outlines ESA
ORLANDO, Fla.—It’s not common to hear impromptu applause during a keynote address—especially at a tech conference—but applause there was during Shai Agassi’s May 17 speech at Sapphire, SAP AG’s annual user conference. With little fanfare, the SAP executive board member stepped on the stage and quickly launched into a software demonstration of a company placing…
