Recent Articles
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Maintenance Contracts Commoditized as Vendors and VARs Compete
Remember when selling computer hardware was a good business? These days VARs are looking to the sale of services and other items for higher margins. But the recession may have taken the wind out of another business – the sale of maintenance contracts. This kind of sale is becoming more of commodity, according to Tina…
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Survey Links IT Investment to Corporate Success
In the third of four related studies, Ronin Corp., a market research firm with offices in Princeton N.J. and London, has linked the role of IT in separating the winners from the losers as this recession draws to a close. Looking to build on the McKinsey findings that ‘strategic’ companies emerge stronger from recessions while…
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IBM to CFOs: Server ROI trumps TCO
IBM is already the world’s largest server vendor — at least in dollars, if not units — but Big Blue’s current efforts to increase fourth quarter sales could get a nice shot in the arm as the result of a new study. According to the Robert Frances Group (RFG) study on IBM’s HS 21 XM…
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Sophos, Juniper Strike OEM Deal for Branch Office
Sophos and Juniper Networks announced this week that they’re teaming up to extend the spam protection on Juniper’s branch office networking security platforms. The partnership enables Juniper to integrate Sophos anti-spam technology into Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways, SSG Series Secure Service Gateways and J Series Service Routers for the branch. Sophos’ technology takes…
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HP Fourth Quarter Shows Higher Profit on Revenue Drop
HP (NYSE: HPQ) pointed to improvements in its printing and PC sales as consumers made the switch to Windows 7, saying that it gained PC market share and its fourth-quarter earnings were in line with previous forecasts. Executives from the technology giant made those observations in a call to analysts following the release of HP’s…
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Hackers Unleash New iPhone Virus
(Reuters) – Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc’s iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said. The virus has been detected in the Netherlands and can only attack iPhones whose users have disabled some pre-installed security features, according to analysts monitoring the progress of the…