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Apple iPhone Infiltrates BlackBerry’s Enterprise Stronghold
Solution providers looking to support mobility and mobile phones such as BlackBerry and Treo as a part of their practice have been noticing something different lately. The realm once ruled by BlackBerry has been infiltrated by a young upstart—the Apple iPhone. During Apple’s most recent earnings call, company executives told analysts that iPhones were being…
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Virtualization Will Be a Driver for 2010 Server Refresh
Server vendors are at the ready as 2010 approaches, awaiting what could be a significant refresh of server hardware. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and even Cisco Systems have introduced new server hardware as the new year approaches. That’s because some IT organizations have used virtualization as a tactic to postpone server hardware upgrades during the recession.…
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Intel to Ante Up $1.25 Billion to Settle Suits with AMD
(Reuters) – Intel Corp will pay rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc $1.25 billion to settle all outstanding legal disputes, in a move that can hasten the resolution of Intel’s antitrust troubles. AMD, whose shares jumped 22 percent, agreed to withdraw essentially all its regulatory complaints and litigation against Intel, ending a global campaign that…
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Microsoft, IBM Prime for RFID`s Next Wave
When it comes to RFID, the buzz has subsided and most budgets have dried up. Today, leery customers search first for RFID’s business impact. No brainer, right? Think back to 2004 and the budding RFID mania. Analysts and industry watchers sat perched on the edge of their chairs, watching and waiting for RFID adoption to…
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Juniper’s Marketing Epiphany
I had a chance to sit down with channel veteran Frank Vitagliano in New York a couple of weeks back. Vitagliano, as many of you know, was a mainstay among IBM channel executives for more than 20 years, and for the last four years has been heading up Juniper’s channel program—more like crafting it, actually.…
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AMD Expects Profitability in Year Ahead
(Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.N) said it expects to report profits next year from its chip design business, the backbone of a company trying rebuild market share and better compete with rival Intel Corp. (INTC.O). AMD executives spent much of a meeting with analysts and investors on Wednesday emphasizing the company’s efforts to remake…