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Dell’s iPad Killer Tablet Computer to Debut at $300
NEW YORK Aug 10 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) will begin selling its new tablet device called the Dell Streak to U.S. customers later this week for $299.99 with a two-year AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) contract, and for $549.99 without, it said on Tuesday. Dell said it would begin taking orders online on Thursday. The company…
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The Trouble with Managed Services: Making the Move to a New Business Model
Cloud, cloud, cloud. That’s all vendors talk about these days. It’s just about all Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about during his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last month (or as he would say it: "Cloud, cloud, cloud, blah blah blah"), and it’s clear that managed services, cloud and software as a…
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iPad Forecast to Kill the Netbook
iPad Forecast to Kill the Netbook Gartner reports that netbook sales slowed down to 20 percent growth last quarter, compared to 70 percent consecutive growth over the previous two years. No Title Goldman Sachs Research released a note recently that said it expects the Apple iPad to greatly cannibalize the netbook and even the notebook…
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VMware Zimbra Offers Business a Microsoft Exchange Alternative
Zimbra is taking its e-mail, messaging and collaboration suite embedded appliance to VMware’s channel organization – effectively growing from just 1,000 channel partners to 25,000 overnight. The move follows VMware’s acquisition of the corporate cloud e-mail and collaboration vendor from Yahoo earlier this year, and poses an even more serious threat to entrenched players such…
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Toshiba Offers Wipe Technology for Self-Encrypting Disk Drives
Technology giant Toshiba announced Wipe for its Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models, a technology that allows special security capabilities, such as the ability for sensitive user data to be securely erased when a system is powered down or when an SED HDD is removed from the system. The feature can also be used to erase user…
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Oracle’s Ellison Condemns HP Board Action on Hurd
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) Chief Executive Larry Ellison blasted Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) on Monday for forcing CEO Mark Hurd to resign. In an email sent to the New York Times and later provided to Reuters by Oracle, Ellison slammed HP’s board for ousting Hurd — a close friend — even after the…
