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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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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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Printers and Enterprise Servers Expected to Drag on HP Sales
All eyes are on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) this afternoon as the technology giant—a bellwether for other companies in the personal computer, server and printer spaces, among other technologies—announces its second-quarter earnings. And the news looks to be bleak for printing and enterprise servers and storage. As business and consumers continue to delay the purchase of new…
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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Distributor Group Says Recession Close to Bottom
Intel has said the PC market has hit bottom, and analysts and at least one distributor seem to agree, even if some significantnaysayers remain. But adding to the it’s-not-getting-any-worse camp, this week the Global Technology Distribution Council, a consortium of IT distributors, says that the sales declines that the industry have experienced are slowing down…