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Tech Data Opens Apple Lab for iPhone, iPod and Apple Computers
While consumers may be the ones buying the iPod, iPhone and Apple computers, many businesses have become more open to integrating these devices into their IT environments, and that spells opportunity for resellers. That’s why IT distributor Tech Data is launching an Apple Lab to help its reseller channel partners and their end customers to…
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Report: Digital Universe Doubling Every 18 Months
EMC started off its ninth customer and partner conference with some cloud announcements and some surprising findings in its latest study on what’s happening in the storage market. Essentially, EMC is saying it’s good to be in the data business, or information lifecycle management, as it likes to style it. The study by IDC found…
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Polycom, Glowpoint Team Up to Deliver Quality Video Conferencing
Ever wonder why your expensive telepresence and video conferencing system sometimes doesn’t have sharp, high-definition video quality or audio latency issues? Polycom says blame the telecommunications carriers. Polycom says the major obstacle to quality video conferencing adoption resides in the carrier networks. The carriers, Polycom says, do not ensure quality of service across their peering…
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HP’s CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better
While Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) and Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) CEOs have recently mentioned the word “bottom” when referring to the current economic crisis, that’s not a word that was in Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s vocabulary during the computer giant’s second-quarter conference call with analysts this week. Instead, HP’s CEO provided a more conservative outlook on the state…
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McAfee Aims to Knock Symantec Out of HP’s Shop
McAfee, the second largest security software company, is aiming to completely undo larger rival Symantec’s longstanding alliance with Hewlett-Packard by replacing Big Yellow’s anti-virus software on all HP personal computers. In a Reuters interview, McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt said his company is trying to convince HP to drop Symantec’s products from its PC distributions and…
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President Obama, Swine Flu Make Good Spam Topics
Image spam made another resurgence during April and early May, according to the latest spam report from Symantec, but as usual spammers also latched onto headline news topics to lure in their victims, including swine flu, the end of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office and Mother’s Day. According to Dermot Harnett, principal…