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  • HP Quarter Expected Strong, Dell in Question

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Hewlett Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) hopes to shift investors’ attention from its internal upheaval to financial performance, with an imminent quarterly report expected to again showcase its reputation for solid — if unspectacular — growth. HP shares have suffered after months of grappling with the messy exit of Mark Hurd…

  • ATandT Extends Smartphone Management Capabilities from MobileIron

    Communications giant AT&T has announced a service to help businesses better manage and help secure smartphones on multiple operating systems within their organizations. The service, MobileIron VSP (Virtual Smartphone Platform) from AT&T, provides over-the-air protection and control for both company- and employee-owned smartphones used within an organization. The service also provides multiplatform visibility for integrated…

  • Go with LCD screens

    Go with LCD screens Approximately 65 percent of those organizations who reported they’ve reduced IT energy costs by 1 percent or more say they’ve migrated their monitors from CRTs to LCDs. Seek low-power processors Around 64 percent of successfully efficient organizations are utilizing newer low-power/low wattage processors for servers and other data center equipment. And…

  • How to Sell Hardware as a Service

    I gave a talk at the recent SMB Nation show about delivering a complete solution with the new Windows Small Business Server Codename “Aurora” system combined with the new HP microservers to deliver a complete service. I recently got a great question from someone who was in the audience via an email. “In the Aurora…

  • Electronic Wallet Technology Comes to Google Android

    Nov 15 (Reuters) – Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) next version of its Android smartphone software will support a technology that lets people use their handsets, instead of credit cards, to pay for goods at restaurants and stores. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt showed off a yet-to-be-released phone on Monday with a special chip that allows consumers…

  • Google, Yahoo to Get E-Mail Rival: Facebook

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Facebook rolled out an all-in-one messaging service that for the first time allows its half-billion members to communicate with people outside the social network, intensifying a battle with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) for users’ Internet time. Addressing speculation the world’s largest social networking site was planning…

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