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Objectworld Rounds Out Plug-and-Play Support of Polycom Phones
Objectworld is further simplifying the process it takes to build a unified communications environment by announcing plug-and-play support for the newest phones in Polycom’s product lines through its Objectworld Connect Interoperability Program. The Canada-based company is now supporting Polycom’s VVX 1500 business media phone; SoundPoint IP450, 560, and 670 IP desktop phones; and SoundStation IP…
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Verizon Next to Offer $100 Netbook PC?
Want an extremely inexpensive PC? Verizon plans to offer subsidized PC netbooks to consumers for approximately $100 in exchange for service contracts, according to a Bloomberg report. It was just a matter of time before telecommunications carrier Verizon jumped on the netbook PC bandwagon. AT&T and Radio Shack partnered to release a $99 Acer Aspire…
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Dell Eyes Acquisitions Services, Data Center and Storage
Dell won’t sit on the sidelines as Cisco Systems gears up its blade server strategy and IBM pursues Sun Microsystems for its data center assets. At a press conference in Beijing, CEO Michael Dell says the company that bears his name is actively eying acquisitions to give it greater enterprise capabilities in servers, storage, software,…
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IBM Chief to Partners: Get Smarter
IBM has been making a lot of marketing noise lately about making the planet smarter, ranging from complex undertakings such as making the electric grid more efficient to just trying to synchronize traffic lights so cars burn less gas. As noble as all those goals are, however, IBM has been pursuing this ambitious set of…
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano`s Letter to Partners
The following is a letter written by Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM, to his business partners, affirming IBM’s commitment to working with solution providers and integrators on building a ‘Smarter Planet.’ Dear IBM Business Partner, I am pleased to send you the attached copy of the updated IBM Business Partner Charter. It represents…
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Compellent Intros Killer App for SSDs
Compellent Technologies has developed a ‘killer app’ that allows solution providers to deliver solid-state disk (SSD) technology at a minimum cost, aiming squarely at SSD competitors like Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and Texas Memory Systems. SSD technology offers a middle ground between high-performance, high-priced but low density RAM and slower, cheaper but higher capacity hard disks. …