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Gateway, MSI Laptops Offer New Intel, AMD Chips
Computer makers MSI and Gateway are rolling out laptops sporting new chip technologies from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. MSI on July 8 unveiled the latest additions to its X-Slim Series of notebooks, including one the X460 that company officials are calling the lightest to offer Intel’s high-end quad-core Core i7 chip. The 14-inch ultraportable…
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Can Microsoft Regain Its Technology Goliath Status?
Anyone who has been around for more than a few years in the technology industry can remember when Microsoft was a Goliath that couldn’t be taken down. The company dominated the technology industry and toppled those companies who dared to threaten its market share. And that’s not because Microsoft was ever first to market with…
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Microsoft Kinect SDK Offers Channel Opportunity
Microsoft is looking to bring motion capture and gesture capabilities to the business world via its Kinect platform. The company has released a software development kit (SDK) that enables the USB connectable device to be plugged into any Windows PC, allowing software developers to motion-enable their applications. The Kinect software development kit will give software…
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Microsoft Office 365, Hosted Productivity Suites Present Opportunities for Channel
Starting with its June 28th release, Microsoft s hosted productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, is poised to make a big splash with U.S. small to medium-size businesses, which IT analytics firm AMI-Partners considers businesses with under 1,000 employees. Priced at only $6 per user per month, SMBs get all of the Office Suite applications…
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Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System Enables Video Content Distribution
Communications and networking specialist Cisco announced the Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video distribution products that provide a way to manage the video load on the wide area network (WAN) and is also designed to help control the cost of extending video applications across the organization. As a key video infrastructure component…