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  • ATandT to Sell Dell Aero Android Smart Phone and Palm Phones

    (Reuters) – AT&T Inc will start selling Palm Inc’s mobile phones in a few months, Palm said on Monday, as it looks to expand distribution and raise consumer awareness of its phones. Palm’s stock has suffered amid questions over its ability to survive in a tough market dominated by bigger rivals , but its shares…

  • StoredIQ and NetApp Team Up for Information Management

    StoredIQ is hoping to bolster its channel partners’ sales pitches with a new vendor partnership that will help the information management and e-discovery appliance maker take advantage of NetApp’s storage capabilities. StoredIQ announced March 16 that it has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program in order to better integrate NetApp storage with StoredIQ’s Intelligent Information…

  • Microsoft Updates Windows XP Mode, Partners with Citrix

    Microsoft has opened up upgrades to its Windows 7 operating system to a whole host of new users by removing the hardware requirement for the use of Windows XP Mode, the technology that enables users to run older applications on the 64-bit operating system. "It’s a very good development to not require hardware virtualization support…

  • China: Some HP Laptops Faulty

    (Reuters) – China’s quality control watchdog said an investigation into Hewlett-Packard Co showed the company had sold some faulty laptop computers, and ignored consumer protection regulations. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement on its website (www.aqsiq.gov.cn) that after consumer complaints, it had found several models were affected by…

  • More Users Plan Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Before SP1 Release

    New research from recent Dell acquisition Kace finds 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan to deploy Windows 7, up dramatically from a similar study done in April 2009. Of more significance to the channel, almost half of the 900 respondents plan to move to Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of Service Pack…

  • Facebook Surpasses Google Search as Most Visited Web Site

    According to online trends and analysis web site HitWise, Facebook surpassed Google Search as the most visited site on the web last week. Google Search accounted for 7.03 percent of US Internet visits last week, compared to 7.07 percent for Facebook. What does that mean for VARs? It means that there’s no ignoring it—social media…

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