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  • HP Stacks Up to IBM

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Hewlett-Packard Co is close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. Shares of EDS jumped 27 percent on the news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, while HP shares slid 2.5 percent. Both stocks were halted, news… Read more

  • HP close to deal to buy EDS: report

    Channel Insider Staff

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is close to a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12 billion to $13 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday. The news sent EDS shares soaring 28 percent to $24.14 on the New York Stock Exchange. HP shares fell 4.1 percent… Read more

  • POS Innovations: Many Ways to Shop

    Herman Mehling

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    Innovations in point-of-sale technology used to be about as exciting as, well, the unveiling of a new cash register from NCR or IBM. But that’s in the past. Nowadays, the POS market is far more complex and diverse with an abundance of kiosks, self-checkout units and line-busting mobile devices, many of which are part of… Read more

  • Best Buy Goes to Europe with Carphone Deal

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    By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters)–Best Buy, the world’s biggest electronics retailer, is to pay $2.1 billion for half of Britain’s Carphone Warehouse chain to take on the European consumer electricals market. The deal creates a joint venture business that will compete with DSG International, formerly called Dixons, and Kesa which owns the French group Darty.… Read more

  • A New Way to Point.

    A New Way to Point.

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Don’t let the peripheral manufacturers hear me say this, but a mouse is a boring piece of technology. No one could possibly get excited about a mouse! That said, in today’s graphical-user-interface-based world, very few peripherals are as important as a pointing device and any improvements are welcome. Case in point is Newton Peripherals and… Read more

  • The Channel Execs You Need To Know

    Channel Insider Staff

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    These are the folks who manage the sales teams and shape the partner programs that keep the channel humming. So grab a pencil, open your contact list and meet the channel execs every solution provider needs to know. Channel Execs You Need to Know at: | Cisco | Dell | Hewlett-Packard | IBM | Intel… Read more