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Five Essential Tips Before You Raise Your Price
Five Essential Tips Before You Raise Your Price Five Essential Tips for Raising Services PricesEconomic conditions over the past couple of years have made raising prices the exception rather than the norm for many businesses including IT solution providers and managed services providers. But now that the economy seems headed towards recovery, it may be…
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Tough Tactics as Cisco, HP Force Partners to Choose Sides
Image by frankblacknoir via Flickr As Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard have ratcheted up their competitive efforts against each other, with HP even scheduling its partner conference in Las Vegas the same week as Cisco’s partner summit in San Francisco, channel partners may very well be feeling much of the pain. Can you be vendor-agnostic and…
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Acer Targets Smartphones, MIDs
Completing a lineup of connected devices, Acer additionally plans to launch a series of MIDS (mobile Internet devices). The additions will complete the user experience Acer offers, from occasionally connected devices, such as notebooks and netbooks, and moving to highly connected devices such as the MIDs and smartphones. READ MORE>>
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Symantec Acquires Encryption Companies, PGP, GuardianEdge
Symantec announced plans to acquire encryption specialists PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies. Under the terms of the agreements, Symantec will buy PGP for $300 million and GuardianEdge for $70 million. The plans represent something of a reversal for the company, which had previously declined to buy into the encryption market even as McAfee purchased SafeBoot and…
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Marvell Intros Gigabit Ethernet Switch Platform for Small Business
Integrated silicon solutions specialist Marvell introduced a Gigabit Ethernet switch platform designed for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). Based on the Marvell Prestera family of packet processors and Marvell Alaska family of Gigabit transceivers, the Prestera 98DX3130 Ethernet switch and Alaska 88E1545 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver ICs are designed to drive down network Ethernet switch power…
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Apple’s Jobs Explains Flash Ban
In what amounts to a pot meets kettle moment, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has laid out a series of reasons why Apple does not support Adobe’s Flash on its mobile platforms. In essence, Jobs said Flash is not fit for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod platforms, claiming that, among other things, Flash is not secure,…
