Recent Articles
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Can Microsoft Win Back the Mobile Enterprise from iPhone and Blackberry?
Everyone knows Microsoft made some bad missteps with its mobile strategy over the past couple of years. The Windows Mobile platform went from being the defacto standard for the enterprise to rapidly losing market share because of the company’s failure to hurry up, make a decision, and get cracking on unleashing a full-featured operating system…
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Toshiba, Lenovo Roll Out Multimedia 3D Laptops
Toshiba has announced the release of a series of refreshed, expanded and brand new notebooks under the Satellite brand, including the Satellite A665 3D graphics-ready notebook powered by Nvidia 3D vision technology. Equipped with a rewritable Blu-ray Disc drive, the 3D-ready A665 is also ready to support content playback in the Blu-ray 3D format. The…
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Nielsen: People Spent 22 Percent of Their Time on Social Networks
The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free social networks trying to make money from their users’ rampant use of their walled gardens to trade and share links, photos, videos and other information. READ MORE >>
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Net Neutrality: Too Costly To Implement?
In the report, the authors describe net neutrality’s restrictions on the development of new business models, its impediments to the reliable delivery of life-enhancing content and services, and the injection of uncertainty into the marketplace. The paper estimates the likely investment, job, and GDP losses resulting from the imposition of such rules. The authors argue…
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System Crashes After 600,000 iPhone 4 Preorders
Apple became a victim of its own success June 15, when an unexpected 600,000 pre-orders for its iPhone 4 managed to crash both its and AT&T’s ordering systems. AT&T continues to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States. Apple and AT&T found themselves hit by unexpected demand for the iPhone 4,…
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PC Sales Surge Spells Renewed Opportunity for VARs
IDC recently reaffirmed the renewed growth of the PC market in 2010 with new positive and hopeful numbers and forecasts. That spells great news for VARs relying on hardware sales as a key component of their businesses. In the first quarter of 2010, PC shipments surged at an unprecedented growth rate of 27.1 percent, underscoring…
