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Treo Smart Phone Maker Palm’s Revenues Plummet
Treo smartphone maker Palm attributed its 70 percent third quarter revenue drop to a bad economy as sales of its mobile devices fell. Palm competes against Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry in the smartphone market. Revenue dropped sharply to $90.6 million from $312.1 million, and the company said unit sales of smartphones fell 42 percent…
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Microsoft Passes Buck on Internet Explorer Error
Many users (myself included) are complaining of an error that seems to be cropping up more and more with all versions of Internet Explorer: “Internet Explorer Can Not Open the Internet Site – Operation Aborted” This error is a growing nuisance, but I figured it would disappear with an upgrade to IE8 or by installing…
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CA Intros ARCserve Incentives, New Channel Focus
Computer Associates is beefing up solution provider incentives around its ARCServe Backup software, hoping to boost partner sales of the product and gain ground against its main competitor, Symantec’s Backup Exec. The new program offers up-front discounts and back-end rebates for solution providers selling the ARCserve Backup product, says Adam Famularo, senior vice president and…
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Cisco to Flip for Pure Digital Acquisition
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is on the acquisition path again, but for the moment the target is not Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA). Instead the networking giant today announced plans to pay $590 million in a stock deal for Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of the Flip Video video camera devices including the Flip MinoHD. And while Flip is…
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Marriages of Sales Convenience
There’s nothing quite like a recession to change behaviors. Not too long ago most of the sales people working for vendors had little or no time for their counterparts at solution providers. Flash forward to today, and sales people that work for vendors are tripping over themselves to get next to sales people that work…
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Samsung NC20 Says Forget the Dell Adamo
With its NC20, its latest entry into the ultra-hot netbook market, Samsung is asking the channel, “When is a netbook not a netbook?” Originally perceived as a replacement for the 2.8-pound Intel Atom-powered NC10, the NC20 introduces a new genre of portable computing, something that is more than a netbook but still less than a…
