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NetApp Blitz: Vindication Or Pre-Emptive Strike?
NetApp is celebrating the shipment of more than 150,000 unified storage systems, and some analysts are pushing the company whose stock has risen 5 percent in the last few days. However an alternative view is that this press and blog blitz might have more to do with an anticipated unified storage announcement from the storage…
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Getting Ready for Apple iPad Teardowns
(Reuters) – The iPad will not hit stores until Saturday, but the race to unlock its mysteries started several weeks ago in San Luis Obispo, a picturesque college town roughly 200 miles south of Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters. On March 12, Kyle Wiens and Luke Soules woke up before dawn. Their plan demanded that they…
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Channel Insider’s Zero Client, Thin Client, Desktop Virtualization Resource Guide
After recession-related IT budget freezes that took the blame for many delayed technology projects and hardware refreshes, the stuff that was supposed to be hot in 2009 — desktop virtualization, thin client and zero client computing — is getting more attention again in 2010. Are you ready? Some IT organizations looking to upgrade their fleet…
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Cisco Offers Free WebEx App for Apple iPad
Think the Apple iPad is just for consumers? Not according to Cisco, which is introducing its Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for the iPad, available immediately from the App Store. The free application allows users to join and participate in online meetings—viewing and sharing slideshows and other content as well as using WebEx chat—from their Apple…
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April Fools’ 2010
Are you getting a lot of help desk support calls today? Blue screen of death? Disappearing icons? Weird keyboard problems? Chances are someone has played an April Fools’ prank on your unsuspecting user. Yes, it’s April 1 again. Check out Channel Insider’s list of the top eight computer pranks that could be sprung on your…
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Apple iPad Scores High Marks for Battery Life
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s iPad scored very well in terms of ease of use and battery life in its first reviews, but it won’t obliterate the laptop computer market just yet, according to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Reviewers at both papers said that while the tablet computer, which goes on sale…
