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  • Sprint Touts Clutch Mobile Messaging Device

    Sprint Makes Clutch Announcement Push to talk thumb, meet texting thumb. In an effort to appeal to Nextel loyalists interested in messaging-friendly devices, Sprint today introduced a new candybar device from Motorola for its iDEN line. Sprint announced that when the Motorola Clutch i465 hits Sprint’s sales channels this summer, it will become the first…

  • HP Answers the Call for New Telephony Solutions

    With a host of new cost-efficient, ruggedized solutions, Hewlett-Packard is taking another step closer to fully converged telephony and data center infrastructure. “What we’ve seen over the last five years is the shift from custom hardware built to handle telephony to more commoditized products from the data center that integrate more fully into customers’ telecom…

  • Technology Resellers Get Credit Help from Fujitsu, GE Capital

    Resellers now have another option when it comes to obtaining financing for Fujitsu America-branded products. GE Capital’s Commercial Distribution Finance arm is offering extended distribution financing programs—60-day payment terms—for resellers who source Fujitsu America products through distributors D&H, Tech Data or Synnex. Fujitsu isn’t the first to launch such a program. Several vendors and distributors have…

  • Delaying PC Purchases Cost SMBs More in the Long Run

    It’s no secret that businesses large and small have put their IT budgets under pressure, typically delaying their PC refreshes and leaving users with laptop or desktop computers that are 4 or 5 years old. But a new study conducted by market research firm Techaisle shows that delaying PC purchases can actually cost businesses more…

  • Insiders View of the Mind of the Midmarket IT Executive

    Insiders View of the Mind of the Midmarket IT Executive IT vendors have long recognized the potential value of midmarket customers, and most agree that the best way to reach these customers is through channel partners, VARs, resellers, IT consultants and solution providers. To win those customers, you must understand how midmarket IT executives think…

  • 5 Reasons the Pre Can`t Save Palm

    Palm reported a $105 million narrower-than-expected loss during its fiscal fourth quarter. The company is hopeful for a turnaround, banking mostly on the promise of its just-out Pre smartphone, a device that company executives have all but declared an organizational life preserver. "The launch of Palm webOS and Palm Pre was a major milestone in…

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