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MacBook, iPad Offspring: The New MacBook Air
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct 20 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet, fusing features from its popular iPhone and iPad with its traditional line of personal computers. Apple, whose computers have taken market share from PCs based on Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows, will bring a version of its…
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Westcon LEAP Centers Designed to Test Customer Workloads on New Data Center Equipment
Networking and data center specialty distributor Westcon Group has unveiled a facility in Denver designed to give resellers in the United States an environment where they can test, train, experiment and simulate a range of data center solutions. The new facility is the first in the United States and the second in a series of…
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EMC, Dell Working to Fix Relationship
(Reuters) – Tech giants Dell Inc and EMC Corp are trying to repair a long-running business partnership that was damaged when one of them flirted with the rival of the other. The trouble began in August when Dell offered $1.15 billion to buy high-end storage maker 3PAR, a competitor of EMC. Although 3PAR was eventually…
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BlackBerry Maker RIM Fires Back at Steve Jobs
(Reuters) – Research In Motion’s Jim Balsillie on Tuesday brushed off Steve Jobs’ critique of RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer, saying the Apple CEO’s barbs made no sense outside of his company’s "distortion field." Jobs on Monday said a batch of seven-inch-screen tablets, including the PlayBook, that will compete with Apple’s 10-inch iPad would be…
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Business Exposed to Virtual Data Storage Risks, Survey Finds
While nearly 90 percent of IT professionals surveyed at VMworld 2010 reported their organizations are storing data in a virtual environment, a third of respondents admitted their organization has not updated or they do not know if it has updated its data loss and/or business continuity plan to account for new storage mediums such as…
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Microsoft Office 365: The Hosting Partner Opportunity
Microsoft Office 365, announced yesterday as the software giant’s answer to Google Docs and Google Apps and Zoho’s online productivity suites, may have left many in the channel wondering where they would fit into the equation. After all, Microsoft’s channel partner program is huge, and IT solution providers have sometimes expressed concern about the move…