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HP Rolls Out PCs, Laptops
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is releasing a host of new laptops and netbooks as the technology giant looks to build on its recent momentum in the personal computer market. The world’s largest PC maker unveiled its first-ever touch-enabled netbook as part of its product rollout for the Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place this week…
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Managed Services Not for Everyone
My phone rang at 4 a.m. Pacific time. On the other end was a VAR tortured by insomnia (fortunately for me, it was at least 7 a.m. in New York). He had been up all night racking his brain—and for good reason—over the quandary known as managed services. Now, you would think that this is…
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Potential VMware Acquisition May Threaten Microsoft Exchange Stronghold
As if it weren’t enough that VMware owns most of the server virtualization market out there today, now the company is rumored to be interested in buying open-source messaging, e-mail and collaboration vendor Zimbra from Yahoo. Rumors first surfaced last fall that Yahoo, which purchased Zimbra two years before, was looking to sell it just…
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Microsoft’s Upgrade Discount Program Spells Channel Services Dollars
As promised, Microsoft has made deep discounting a critical piece of its full-court press to spark an upgrade cycle for Windows 7 and the forthcoming Office 2010. And partners, for the most part, couldn’t be happier. Microsoft’s latest move, expanding the half-off new licenses deal in its Up-to-Date (UTD) Discount program to an even broader…
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Tablet Wars: Is Microsoft Sticking Its Neck Out?
Having struck gold with both the iPod and iPhone, Apple is generating a lot of buzz about the rumored announcement of a tablet PC at the end of the month. According to reports, Apple expects to ship 10 million units in the device’s first year of release. Poor Microsoft, who first popularized the tablet PC…
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Channel Opportunity Knocks for Electronic Medical Records Deployments
With monetary federal incentives ready to be doled out in 2011, every sized healthcare organization is taking a long look at how to efficiently and quickly make the move to electronic medical records (EMR), if they have not already. A 2009 research report by SK&A Information Services, Inc. showed that 67 percent of medical offices…