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Downturn in Consumer PC Business Doesn’t Ruffle HP
Some observers of the IT world were taken aback by Hewlett-Packard’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which plainly showed that the world’s largest supplier of personal computers had slipped in the consumer laptop/notebook department. People who follow the PC business closely, however, were not surprised. These folks already knew that Apple’s iPad and iPad 2,…
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Polycom’s HP Video Collaboration Buy Ups Ante Against Cisco
Polycom is buying Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business and expanding its partnership with Microsoft as it looks to bolster its competition with Cisco Systems in the fast-growing visual communications market. The moves, announced June 1, came at the same time that Polycom officials said they were partnering with a wide range of service providers—including AT&T, BT…
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Logitech Preps LifeSize Video Conferencing Push
Peripheral manufacturer Logitech has traditionally played in the consumer and SMB spaces, but the company will be pushing further into the enterprise space in the coming weeks and months with news related to its 18-month-old acquisition of LifeSize. Part of that news, which Logitech and LifeSize representatives wouldn’t spill, is a new focus on enterprise…
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Better Web Browsing
Better Web Browsing Microsoft has made it clear that the Internet is going to play an important role in its upcoming “Mango” update. In fact, the company said that when users surf the Web, they will be able to engage in a “hyperlocal” search of content, as well as take advantage of Bing’s many services,…
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Intel Corp. Ultrabooks to Premiere By End of 2011
A new category of thin and light mobile computers in the sub $1,000 price range called Ultrabooks will grab 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012, according to Intel Corp’s Sean Maloney, executive vice president. Maloney was speaking at the Computex Taipei 2011 event in Taiwan, calling these new Ultrabooks…
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Dell, SAP Partner on Cloud, In-Memory Computing
A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their…
