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Gmail Outage Rattles Cloud Computing Confidence
Google is recruiting solution and managed services providers to its army of resellers that promote switching from expensive, client-side software packages such as Microsoft Office to the less-expensive, cloud-based Google Apps suite. Google’s promise to partners and paying subscribers: affordability and reliability. After the second email service outage this month, Google is fending off growing…
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New Accounting Rules Make Tech Services Appear Bigger
Solution and managed service providers are dissecting how changes to accounting rules will affect their businesses now that they can immediately recognize hardware and services sales. The Financial Accounting Standards Board Sept. 22 approved changes to the way technology companies report revenue from the sale of products that bundle hardware and services. Under the old…
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CompTIA Survey: Confidence Returning to IT Industry
Things might just be looking up for the economy. At least that’s the word from IT industry association CompTIA, whose recent survey of technology company confidence shows some signs that the market could be on the upswing. CompTIA surveyed 200 technology companies across three different confidence measures to come up with an overall indicator instrument…
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Panda Targets Symantec, McAfee with Revamped Channel Program
Spain-based Panda Security has nibbled in the North America antivirus and endpoint security market for nearly a decade, but never gained traction against giants such as Symantec and McAfee. Now with the market leaders increasingly diversifying their portfolios, Panda says it believes it has an opportunity to more than crack the market, and the wedge…
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HP Takes Wraps Off ‘Packaged’ Services
Using terms like ‘strategic’, ‘holistic approach’ and ‘modeled solutions’, HP has announced a set of 10 ‘standardized’ integrated service solutions that should speed up engagements, lower risks and provide more value to customers and partners. HP Integration Services initially consists of 10 solutions to the most common industry or technology-based integration challenges, said Ian Jagger,…
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Microsoft Reportedly Prepping New Tablet PC
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is developing a small tablet-style PC to rival a similar product that may be launched by Apple Inc, technology blog Gizmodo reported on Tuesday. The booklet-shaped device, called Courier, is in the "late prototype" stage of development, Gizmodo reported, without identifying the source of its information. Microsoft did not immediately answer…