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  • VARs Poised to Profit as Healthcare IT Spending Continues to Grow

    During the economic downturn, previously forecasted gains in market growth crashed across a variety of industries. However, healthcare IT remained a growth industry, fueled by a variety of factors, including new legislation outlining deadlines for the move to electronic medical records (EMR). This year alone, market research firm Competitive Intelligence predicts the healthcare IT market…

  • Verizon Communications Joins Cloud Storage Market

    The service will become available in the U.S. and 16 countries beginning in July. It enters the market against a flock of competitors that include Amazon S3, Google’s new Gdrive, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and a number of others. Verizon Cloud Storage will use a pay-as-you-use scheme that scales on demand and can either augment traditional storage…

  • Microsoft’s Worldwide Release of Office 2010

    In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. While expectations for the software’s success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs. The worldwide launch of Office 2010 follows the software’s release…

  • HP, Vidyo Partner on Visual Collaboration Services

    Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Vidyo Inc., a software-based videoconferencing solution provider, announced an agreement to expand the HP Halo portfolio to include conference room and desktop endpoints that run on enterprise networks. Available through HP and channel partners, the solutions will be interoperable with traditional videoconferencing endpoints and current HP Halo telepresence and video…

  • Sprint to Cut Off Internet Access to Laptop Users Who Exceed Data Limits

    (Reuters) – Telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp will temporarily deactivate the accounts of laptop broadband users if they consume more than their allotted share of data while roaming, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sprint is changing its data service policies for laptop users with mobile broadband cards or USB modems, Mark Elliott, a company spokesman…

  • 20 Quick Facts about Netbooks

    20 Quick Facts about Netbooks Mini notebook computers or netbooks, first introduced in late 2007, have taken the market by storm: with shipments growing by 71 percent year over year from the in the first quarter of 2010, according to analyst firm Gartner. That compares to a 43 percent growth rate for notebook computers overall…

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