Recent Articles
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Six Reasons Why HP`s Web-Connected Printer Will Fail
Hewlett-Packard new Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart aims to decouple the printer from the personal computer and connect it directly to the Internet. The idea is to make printing of routine Web-based documents such as airline boarding passes, coupons and photos simple and efficient. But is the Web-connected printer an automatic hit? Don’t bet on it,…
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Do SMBs Want Cloud Computing?
In my weekly column this week, “Managing the Mass of Clouds,” I speculated on a new role for solution providers in the cloud computing era; that of manager and advisor on cloud-based applications and services. The premise is simple: small and midsized businesses will come to rely on SAAS and cloud-based services, but won’t have…
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T-Mobile to Sell New Google Phone in August
NEW YORK (Reuters) – T-Mobile USA will begin selling a new smartphone using Google Inc’s Android operating software in August, facing off against high-end devices such as Apple’s latest iPhone and the Palm Pre. T-Mobile, an arm of Deutsche Telekom and the No. 4 U.S. mobile service, said the myTouch 3G phone is a slimmer…
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Desktop, Laptop PC Refresh on the Way, Eventually
You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you aren’t reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home. Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refresh cycles, and today’s corporate…
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Oracle Reportedly Shuts Down Virtual Iron
Virtual Iron resellers have just days left to sell products under extremely restrictive terms before Oracle, the company’s new owner, shut down the virtualization software company. According to a report by The Register, Oracle is prohibiting partners from selling Virtual Iron products to new customers and is restricting sales outside of existing customers after June…
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Technology Investments Yield Higher Profits
MIT Sloan School of Management researchers on Friday released an IT management book based on a global study of 1,800 organizations that demonstrates what many solution providers and integrators have known for years: Smart IT investments equal strategic business assets to a company and increase margins, drive revenue growth and increase efficiencies. The business case…