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Dell Goes Direct with Managed Services for Small Business
Dell has announced a managed services solution designed for small businesses and medium businesses that became available April 14 across the United States. The nationwide rollout is the next step in Dell’s direct managed services strategy, which began as a trial in the Dallas and the New York area. Like when it introduced those trials,…
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Sprint Memo Hints at Palm Pre Smartphone Release Date
The smartphone that Palm has promoted as the antidote to its dismal quarterly results—the Palm Pre—is scheduled for release in mid-May, according to several reports today. Palm is hoping the Palm Pre smartphone will play strongly against Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android-based smartphone as the smartphone competition heats up. Several reports today say that internal…
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Hosted Virtual Desktop Market to Top $65B by 2013
The worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 million units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009, according to Gartner Inc. Worldwide HVD revenue will grow from about $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion in 2009, which is less than 1 percent of the worldwide professional PC market, to…
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Saving Money, Not Environment, Drives Green IT
Green technology initiatives are becoming more prevalent, driven much by the need to save costs, but according to a researcher at IDC, even once the economy starts to pick up again, old habits of wasted energy are likely behind us. A survey of IDC Green IT Forum registrants found that 68 per cent of respondents…