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  • HP Android Netbook to Muscle Out Microsoft Windows, Intel Atom

    The use of Google’s Linux-based operating system Android in netbooks has the potential to muscle computing incumbents Microsoft and Intel out of the mini-PC computing space as more mobile phone components make their way into PCs. The end result would likely be even less expensive netbooks based on technologies originally designed for phones, such as…

  • Microsoft Adds Apps to Windows Marketplace for Mobile

    Even as Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners gained the power to download the Skype application from Apple’s App Store, Microsoft was lining up its partners for its own next generation of Windows phones, Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft announced that EA Mobile, the mobile unit of the Electronic Arts gaming…

  • American Airlines Adds In-flight Wi-Fi Service Gogo

    Does unplugging from the Internet make you or any of your customers break out in a cold sweat? Do they feel like they need to be working all the time because of staff cutbacks and the recession? Now computer resellers and their customers needn’t fear being away from their ERP systems due to air travel…

  • Conficker Tools Available, Countdown Hype in Overdrive

    When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Conficker.C—the worm on everyone’s mind for the last week—will phone home for new instructions, kick into overdrive, steal every piece of data it can find and—if you believe the hype—destroy the Internet as we know it. Well, at least that’s what the hype machine would have you believe. Security…

  • Intel’s New Nehalem Drives Virtualization, Cloud Computing

    Intel’s touting its latest Nehalem EP-based quad-core processors as the biggest platform advancement in 10 years, aiming to provide organizations with enhanced virtualization and cloud computing capabilities. Analysts say virtualization and cloud computing are major drivers for future server demand, and Gartner predicts virtualization will be the top technology initiative customers undertake this year. >>…

  • Google Venture Fund Could Widen Channel

    While Google’s foray into the channel with Google Docs and its search appliance has gotten a lackluster response, solution providers in the near future may find themselves involuntarily partnering with Google through acquisitions and the extended Google investment network. Google created a venture capital fund to back startup companies developing innovative products in Internet services,…

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