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CompTIA and MTCPerformance Partner On Membership Discounts
A partnership between CompTIA and MTCPerformance will offer discounts on incentive community Spiffs.com to CompTIA members and discounted membership in CompTIA for MTCPerformance customers. CompTIA gets a lot of member feedback regarding strategies and best practices they can use for their sales personnel, so the partnership with MTCPerformance will offer them a discount on an…
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IBM to Double Consulting Staff in China
By Michael Wei and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N) plans to double the size of its new consulting team in China to help a growing number of firms that want to emerge from the global economic crisis stronger and more international. Frank Kern, president of Global Business Services (GBS), IBM’s consulting arm, told…
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Sony Challenges Amazon Kindle with $199 E-reader
By Laura Isensee LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers. Sony plans to start selling its 5-inch-screen Reader Pocket Edition at $199 — which it called…
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Verizon Business Remodels MSSP Platform
Verizon Business announced Aug. 5 a relaunch of its managed security services platform, introducing a number of new features that it hopes will take it to the top of the managed security service provider (MSSP) heap in the coming year. Designed to go above and beyond the standard antivirus-firewall-IPS trio so common among many security…
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Cisco Quarter Revenue Falls but Profit Beats Expectations
NEW YORK, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported an 18 percent fall in quarterly revenue as customers held back spending on network equipment, but the decline was mostly in line with Wall Street forecasts and its profit was better than expected. Chief Executive John Chambers also said the company saw "a number…
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Distributor Avnet Misses Quarter Profit Expectations
Aug 5 (Reuters) – Electronics components and computer products distributor Avnet Inc (NYSE:AVT) posted an adjusted quarterly profit that missed estimates, hurt by a drop in profit margins due to the regional business mix. The company posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $30 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with net income of $144.1…