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Acer’s Growth Plans Hinge on Tablet PCs, China
(Reuters) – Acer, the world’s No.2 PC vendor, expects its China operations to make up more than 20 percent of its total sales in five years, helped by new tablet PCs and an alliance with China’s Founder Technology. As one of Taiwan’s few internationally recognizable computer brands, Acer is betting heavily on its growth in…
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Symantec Backup Exec Backup Management Gets VMware Plug-In
Data backup and security specialist Symantec Corp.) announced a new management plug-in for VMware vCenter Server available to Backup Exec 2010 customers, which is designed to allow small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to reduce the complexity of managing backups in VMware-virtualized environments. cheduled to be available by early next year, the new plug-in for vCenter…
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Marketing Executives Hesitant to Shift Investment to Social Media
While social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn have become recognized as essential digital marketing channels in 2010, a survey conducted at the digital marketing conference ad:Tech by EPiServer, a provider of platforms that drive online engagement, reveals that in 2010 nearly 60 percent of the respondents realized the highest return on investment…
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1. Too Much Entertainment
1. Too Much Entertainment Whenever a person spends some time sifting through all the programs available in either Apple’s App Store or the Android Market, they quickly come to one conclusion: it’s filled with entertainment applications and games. For consumers, that might be a good thing. But for the average company that’s trying to maintain…
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Dell to Buy Storage Vendor Compellent Technologies
Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy virtualized enterprise storage solution vendor Compellent Technologies for $960 million, the companies announced Monday. Dell will incorporate Compellent’s storage products, including its Compellent Storage Center SAN, into its storage portfolio along with PowerVault, EqualLogic and Dell/EMC products. "Compellent is a natural complement to Dell’s expanding enterprise…
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Cisco to Face Competitive Threats from Wi-Fi Suppliers: Report
In a report from ABI Research, Wi-Fi penetration in US commercial establishments employing more than five people is forecast to grow to 45 percent by the end of 2010. The report found establishment penetration is greatest among large businesses, but over the last two years, penetration growth has been highest in the small to medium-size…
