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Staples Eyes Small Businesses With Technology Solutions Arm
Staples today unveiled its new and improved technology reseller arm, Staples Technology Solutions. The office supply giant acquired two VARs over the past four years, and now rebranded its IT services offerings under the Staples Technology Solutions label to strengthen its play for the managed IT services and networking market. Staples Technology Solutions is a…
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VMware, Mitel Collaboration Creates Virtualized VOIP Appliance
VOIP communications vendor Mitel has collaborated with virtualization giant VMware to create a virtualized appliance version of its Mitel Call Director VOIP solution. By offering the VOIP solution as a virtualized appliance, IT managers can now include voice in their server consolidation efforts, the companies told Channel Insider. According to Mitel’s Stephen Beamish, vice…
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ExaGrid Courts Channel For SME Backup Market
ExaGrid Systems looking for solution providers serving the small-medium enterprise market, the organizations that fall between the Fortune 1000 and SMBs. The privately held company, based in Westborough, Mass., and coming off its tenth quarter of growth, replaces tape libraries with a disk-based backup solution in the 1-100 Terabyte range, and has 2,000 systems installed…
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Telecoms Join Forces To Compete Against Apple
(Reuters) – Twenty-four telecom operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that will deliver applications to all mobile phone users in an effort to compete with Apple’s successful apps store. The move is supported by three of the world’s largest device makers — LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson the telecoms industry…
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Mobile Data Explosion Coming This Year
Mobile Data Explosion Coming This Year No Title Over 5 Billion ServedSorry McDonald’s, but by 2014, there will be more than 5 billion personal devices connecting to mobile networks — and billions more machine-to-machine nodes. Mobile video will represent 66 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014, increasing 66-fold from 2009 to 2014…
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U.S. Readies Grants for Health Tech, Job Training
(Reuters) – Members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet will announce nearly $1 billion in grants on Friday to increase the use of health information technology, a White House official said, pushing a key component of Obama’s healthcare overhaul and job creation plans. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis…
