Recent Articles
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Acer Channel Pushes Netbook Value in K-12 Market
There’s no question but that the form factor and price of netbooks appeal to a broad range of businesses and consumers. And the K-12 education market is no exception to that, according to Acer, which saw that market’s uptake of the Acer Aspire One line of netbooks ramp up quickly when Acer first introduced the…
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Netgear Tackles SMB Security with ProSecure Appliances
Netgear’s purchase of security vendor CP Secure is starting to bear fruit, with the introduction of the STM series of ProSecure appliances designed specifically for the SMB marketplace. The STM product line blocks spam, removes e-mail-borne malware and provides protection against Web-based malware. The STM series comes in three models: the low-end STM 150 (designed…
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Solution Providers Seeing Less Green in Green IT
If you’re thinking the green revolution will get your company out of its sales slump, you might want to think again. As the economy stalls and customers pull back on their IT spending, not even the green moniker is helping spur sales, solution providers say. “Green is not gone, but the economy is making selling…
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ViewSonic Enters the PC Market
Computer monitor and display vendor ViewSonic has spruced up its channel partner program in preparation for a new line of products it plans to launch in April. The 100-percent channel company tells Channel Insider that it will launch a new line of all-in-one PCs in April – a 19-inch monitor with a built in Intel…
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Troubled Lenovo Reports Loss, Appoints New CEO
Lenovo Group announced a net loss of $97 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, down from net income of $172 million during the same period a year ago. The company cited continuing decreases in worldwide commercial PC shipments. Globally PC shipments dropped 5 percent and in China they dropped 7 percent for Lenovo. "In…
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Acer Plans to Take Notebook, Netbook Space by Storm
Acer expects its global PC market share to increase by 2 to 3 percent in an economy that has brought greatly lowered expectations for PC sales and shipments for 2009, and that has companies such as Dell and Lenovo looking at reorganizations and other measures. In spite of that market share gain, Acer told Reuters…