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  • Notebooks to Outstrip Desktop SMB Sales in 2011: Report

    Preliminary data from IT research firm Techaisle shows 120.1 million PCs were shipped in 2010 to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) (businesses with less than 1,000 employees)—a year-on-year growth rate of 10.4 percent. The bulk of growth rate came from emerging market countries, which reported a 16.5 percent increase. Mature markets, like Germany and the…

  • How to Focus Your Way to Success

    As a business coach for MSPs, I have the opportunity to meet and work with hundreds of IT providers. One of the most fascinating things to observe is the great disparity in results achieved by MSPs. A small segment has learned to grow predictably and produce profit margins that are three to four times the…

  • 25 Facts You Should Know About Google

    25 Facts You Should Know About Google 1. Google’s initial name was "BackRub," in reference to the way it was designed to check backlinks in order to rank a site for search results. No Title 2. Google’s first investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, wrote the company a check for $100,000 a full month before it even existed.…

  • Apple: Verizon iPhone Online Sales Start Feb. 9

    NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) said on Wednesday that it would kick off online sales of the Verizon Wireless iPhone on Feb. 9, a day before the device hits its store shelves. Apple’s web sales launch of the highly-anticipated phone will follow Verizon’s online sales of a limited number of iPhones…

  • Wyse Thin Client Offers, Dual Core, Integrated Graphics

    Thin client vendor Wyse Technology is offering a new thin client solution, the first with the potential for enhanced two way video conferencing with integrated graphics. A USB 3.0 port enables the attachment of an HD video camera. The Wyse Z90 is available with dual-core AMD G-series processors running Windows Embedded Standard 7 and offers…

  • Social Networking to Push Mobile VOIP Users to 139 Million by 2014: Report

    The next several years are expected to be transformational as mobile operators and other associated players figure out how to respond to a forecast of nearly 139 million mobile VoIP users by 2014, according to a report from IT research firm In-Stat. Nearly five years since mobile VOIP services were first introduced, it is on…

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