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Develop A Smartphone
Develop A Smartphone Steve Jobs is all about hardware, which would make him an unlikely candidate at Microsoft. However, if he were to take over the software giant, Jobs would undoubtedly push his team to develop a smartphone. Currently, Microsoft only offers Windows Phone 7 to vendor partners. For Steve Jobs, that’s not enough. Develop…
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Tech Data Quarter Sales Climb 13 Percent
IT distributor Tech Data Corp. (NASDAQ:TECD) reported net income of $48.7 million on sales of $6.3 billion, for its fiscal first quarter ending April 30. The net sales marked a 13 percent increase from the same period a year ago. “We are pleased to report another solid performance with record first quarter sales, net income…
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Symantec Buys into e-Discovery with Clearwell
Data storage and protection provider Symantec, which has just about everything in its feature arsenal but a complete e-discovery option, took care of that detail May 19 by acquiring Mountain View, Calif., neighbor Clearwell Systems for $390 million. Clearwell’s eDiscovery software package, which Time Warner Communications recently bought for its own corporate system, is well…
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Dell Quarter Profit Grows on High-Margin Products
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) reported a one percent increase in first fiscal quarter revenue year over year and a 177 percent increase in net income as a focus on higher margin products and services boosted the company’s bottom line. Dell’s results stood in stark contrast to HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) results announced earlier this week. HP saw a decline…
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HP, Dell Launch Servers for High-Performance Computing
Hewlett-Packard and Dell are continuing to build servers that bring graphics chips into the data center. HP officials on May 17 announced that Nvidia’s new Tesla M2090 GPU (graphics processing unit) will appear in a number of upcoming HP ProLiant servers aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, a move they say will address organizations’…
