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Six Vendors Vying for iPad Killer Status
Six Vendors Vying for iPad Killer Status 1. Dell While some are proclaiming the little Dell Streak to be an iPad competitor, its awkward 5-inch size (too big to be a smartphone, too small to be a tablet) will be a liability. Dell is more likely to make waves with a 2011 release of a…
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Bill Clinton to Speak at Microsoft Partner Confab
Former President Bill Clinton will add political and humanitarian star power to this year’s gathering of software developers and resellers as the special guest speaker at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next month in Washington, D.C. Allison Watson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s worldwide partner group, started telegraphing teasers of a special guest speaker at…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
