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PC Makers Look to Woo SMBs, Resellers in 2009
PC makers may be looking to hedge their bets in 2009 with more attention to the small and midsize business market, and that means they’ll be looking to woo IT solution providers. Already two big PC makers—Lenovo and Toshiba—are doing just that, and they are entering a crowded field of heavy hitters such as Dell,…
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Lenovo Planning New Line of PCs for SMB Market
Looking to tap into the small and midsize business space, Lenovo is planning to introduce a new line of PCs built specifically for that market and sold through channel partners, office retailers and direct market resellers. Lenovo says the product line will bridge the gap between its ThinkPad line of notebook PCs it acquired from…
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Toshiba Drops Price of Satellite Pro S300 Notebooks
Toshiba has dropped the price of its Satellite Pro S300 laptop notebook systems—a product line introduced last year to appeal to small commercial accounts. The entry-level price for the Satellite S300 laptop is now $529. It’s a move the market has been asking for, particularly as PC makers prepare for 2009—a year of budget cuts…
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Is ‘Patch Tuesday’ Dead?
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of the new year is an unusually singular effort; the company is releasing a single patch to correct a remote code vulnerability in all versions of Windows server. When Microsoft created Patch Tuesday in October 2003, it was a mechanism for bringing regularity and predictability to the patch release process. Prior…
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ASUS`s Eee Box Brings Atom to the Desktop
Mention Intel’s Atom processor and thoughts of sub-notebook computers come to mind. After all, manufacturers such as Asus, MSI, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others have launched successful product lines consisting of mini-notebooks that leverage what the Atom is all about—very low power usage and cost. Asus has experienced that success first hand with its popular line…
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HP ProCurve Proving its Mettle
Could Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve networking line finally be getting some respect? While other areas of technology are limping along financially, sales of ProCurve products are growing by leaps and bounds. In HP’s third fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended in July, ProCurve revenue and port growth expanded to more than twice the rate of the networking…