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IT Vendors Offer More Customer Financing to Boost Sales
Although, in the wake of the worst of the recession, solution providers’ access to bank funding continues to be limited, distributors and vendors are rolling out a plethora of financing and leasing options designed to fuel sales and ignite channel business. Even at the economy’s high-points, traditional money-lenders did not always understand the service-oriented solution…
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Where’s Microsoft’s Plan to Win in the Consumerization of IT Age?
Image via Wikipedia Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the…
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Google Quarter Sales Top $9B
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per…
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10 Reasons Microsoft Matters More Than Ever
10 Reasons Microsoft Matters More Than Ever . Windows, Windows, WindowsIf there is any product that proves Microsoft matters quite a bit in today’s tech space, it’s Windows. The operating system is by far the most dominant platform around the world. And according to Microsoft, its latest release, Windows 7, is performing exceedingly well. As…
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Half of Notebooks to Get Quad-Core Chips in 2015
Quad-core processors, which are fairly commonplace in desktop PCs, will be in almost half of all notebooks sold within the next four years, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report July 12, IHS iSuppli analysts said that by 2015, 49 percent of all notebooks will ship with quad-core processors. That will be…
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10 Things We’ve Learned From Microsoft’s Partner Conference
10 Things We’ve Learned From Microsoft’s Partner Conference 1. The Cloud Means EverythingMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear that the cloud is key to the future. Ballmer discussed Windows Azure and Office 365, the cloud-based productivity suite the company launched. All the while, he made it clear to his company’s partners that if they…
