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  • CES: Motorola, Intel Partner on Android Smartphones

    LAS VEGAS–Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) Jan. 10 inked a multiyear, strategic agreement in which Motorola will sell smartphones based on Intel’s Atom processor Z2460 platform, starting in the second half of 2012. Intel CEO Paul Otellini and Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha announced their new pact on stage here at the 2012…

  • Ingram Micro Intros Data Wipe Service for Retired Hardware

    Virtualization, cloud computing, and data-center consolidation leave in their wake unwanted hardware—and an environmental and security headache for solution providers and their customers. To address these concerns, Ingram Micro today unveiled its IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Services for resale by channel partners in North America. Through a partnership with U.S. Micro, Ingram Micro’s ITAD Services…

  • Iomega Breaks SMB Storage Price Barrier

    Data storage space is like closet space, there never seems to be enough. Iomega is looking to bring enterprise-sized storage to the SMB sector with a family of low priced NAS units. The entry level StorCenter ix2 starts out with 1TByte of storage with an estimated street price of around $220, other models in the…

  • IBM Unveils New Social Media Initiatives for Business Partners, Customers

    As part of its ongoing social media offerings, IBM today unveiled five new initiatives designed to help business partners and their clients more fully integrate these technologies within their organizations. After all, sales of social business software are expected to grow at 61 percent through 2016, when they will reach sales of $6.4 billion versus…

  • Avaya Launches IP Office 8.0 Unified Communications Platform

    Business communications and collaboration systems and services specialist Avaya unveiled IP Office 8.0, the latest version of the company’s unified communications solution for small to medium-size businesses. The updated version introduces a range of advancements for improving collaboration, including a set of mobile capabilities designed to drive better team performance and keep mobile workers connected…

  • AT&T Joins OpenStack Cloud Community

    AT&T has joined the OpenStack community as the first major carrier to take part in the open-source cloud computing project. By joining OpenStack, AT&T can lend its hand in pushing the project forward while also tapping into the OpenStack cloud technology for AT&T s own developer cloud initiative announced Jan. 9. OpenStack is an infrastructure…

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