Recent Articles
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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…
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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…
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Storage Technologies Vie for Dominance
The jury is still out on iSCSI replacing Fibre Channel in the enterprise storage area network market, but the situation will get more interesting within the next few years for FC versus Fibre Channel over Ethernet. That’s according to Dell’Oro Group analyst Seamus Crehan, who tells Channel Insider that the FC-SAN market experienced broad-based record…
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Fed’s New Broadband Plan Worthy
The subject line was very catchy – “Free Broadband from the Government Good/Bad”. One of the discussion groups I’m on lit up with a discussion about the government and a broadband plan. Since my office has a reasonably nice view of the US Marine Corps Memorial, and my morning commute gives me a nice view…