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Nokia Enters Netbook Market
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market. Nokia has seen its profit margins drop over the last quarters as handset demand has slumped, and analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin,…
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Google`s Incomplete Channel a Work in Progress
Perhaps nowhere else than the education market does Google Apps enjoy a distinct advantage over Microsoft Exchange—hosted or on-premises—in that it’s free. But free doesn’t always mean superior manageability, and many institutions have discovered provisioning and managing Google e-mail accounts is more than challenging. Data Technique, a solution provider based in Pittsburgh, Kan., partnered with…
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9 Opportunities for Selling BI to the SMB
The rich, actionable data provided by effective business intelligence systems aren’t just for large enterprises. Small to medium organizations can take advantage, too. Given the right process changes, and some help from channel partners to implement them alongside appropriate technology, SMBs can make decisions more quickly and bump up revenue through BI, according to Aberdeen…
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required…
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Manufacturing a Road to Recovery
The Car Allowance Rebate System—popularly known as the government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program—is credited with spurring the sale of nearly a half-million new cars and injecting the devastated automotive industry with a much-needed shot in the arm. The $3 billion, monthlong campaign was so successful that General Motors had to restart idled factories to meet…
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A Tale of Two Distributors’ Earnings Reports
When distributor Tech Data reported its quarterly earnings this week, the picture was pretty bright considering the economic climate and conditions we’ve all been weathering in the past year. While Tech Data’s revenues fell 16 percent year over year (not surprising since things hadn’t really fallen off at this time a year ago), they were…