Recent Articles
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required…
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A Tale of Two Distributors’ Earnings Reports
When distributor Tech Data reported its quarterly earnings this week, the picture was pretty bright considering the economic climate and conditions we’ve all been weathering in the past year. While Tech Data’s revenues fell 16 percent year over year (not surprising since things hadn’t really fallen off at this time a year ago), they were…
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Smartphone Users Get Bigger Display and Keyboard from Redfly
Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way. Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging technology in 2008, may just have the solution for your customers, and…
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Acer Releases Nettop for Business, Lenovo Offers Home Nettop
Acer and Lenovo both introduced new nettop PCs this week, with Acer’s aimed at business users and sold through the company’s reseller channel and Lenovo’s aimed at the digital home with Nvidia-based graphics capabilities onboard enabling HD video. The nettops from both companies, priced in the sub-$400 range, are built with Intel Atom processors. They…
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Small Business IT Budgets Drop, but Some Spending Remains
Small business and midmarket business are decreasing their operating IT budgets by 4 percent in 2009 and their IT capital budgets by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2009, even as they strive for the most part to keep compensation and headcount about the same. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which…
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Forecast Shows PC Sales Poised for a Recovery
With more signs of life elsewhere in the economy these days, can technology sales be far behind? A supply chain check into PC builds shows big improvement there as well, according to a brief report from FBR Research. The company says that its recent checks into third-quarter PC builds with the top five notebook ODMs…
