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  • Carriers to Cut Tablet Fees?

    (Reuters) – Mobile service providers are reworking charges for wireless connections on tablet computers to lure in customers put off by costly fees. Carriers see tablets like Apple Inc’s iPad as key to revenue growth. But high prices for the devices and more fees on top of phone plans are seen pushing consumers to bypass the cellular…

  • Seagate Launches 500GB Wireless iPad Storage Device

    With all the iPads and iPad 2’s flying out of Apple stores, many of which holding only relatively small amounts of application and file storage, it would be a welcome thing to have easily accessible additional storage to go with it. After all, iPads and most other tablet devices only carry a limited amount of…

  • Cloud Adoption Quickens, But Not Without Issues

    Challenges related to the cloud aren’t stopping businesses from adopting the service delivery model. That’s according to a new survey by Network Instruments of 94 network engineers, IT managers and executives who attended the recent Interop networking event. The results showed a surprisingly large increase in cloud service adoption in the last year, but it…

  • Rackspace Intros Virtual Desktop Platform

    Rackspace Hosting is launching a Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform, enabling companies to gain the benefits of centralized infrastructure and data but without the capital investment,  and enabling resellers to offer virtual desktop solutions to their end-user customers. Rackspace’s Chris Zagorski, director of Enterprise Product Development, told Channel Insider that the adoption of mobile devices…

  • Managed Service Providers Get CompTIA Cert

    CompTIA has introduced a new business-level credential for managed service providers to prove their use of IT best practices for service delivery and customer interaction. The CompTIA MSP Partners Trustmark certification is designed to give customers peace of mind that they’re not signing on with fly-by-night IT operators. “The CompTIA MSP Partners Trustmark serves as…

  • IBM, Microsoft Market Value Reversal of Fortune

    NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) – International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) surged past old rival Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) in market value for the first time since April 1996, marking the latest twist in the fluctuating fortunes of two of the world’s most storied technology companies. IBM ruled the computer industry for decades until it hired the…

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