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Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure
The birth of a VAR typically goes something like this: the employee of an IT service provider comes to the realization that he can do the same work himself and collect the profit without having to answer to superiors he might disagree with. The employee quits and calls on a few of the clients he…
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Cisco’s Big Flip Off
For the blink of an eye, it seemed the Flip camcorder would become the next iPod. Almost everybody was buying one. But then, just as quickly as the fun little point-and-shoot video cameras burst into the market, they seemed to disappear. And so ended another technology fad. Perhaps it had to do with competition –…
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EMC Sees Record Quarter After Storage Line Refresh
Earnings reports from storage and data protection giant EMC may be getting somewhat repetitive each quarter, but they are certainly not ho-hum for EMC management, employees and shareholders. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation on April 20 again reported revenue that exceeded Wall Street projections to go with healthy profit margins, as it has for a string…
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Intel Earnings Strong as Mobililty, Cloud Computing Grow
Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business spending and emerging markets are driving demand for Intel’s traditional businesses. Company executives are expecting the momentum to continue for the rest of 2011 as the company strengthens its presence in the mobile device segment. During an April 19 conference call with analysts and…
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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Beta
Microsoft has introduced the public beta of its Office 365, the company’s cloud-productivity offering and current best chance for driving back the threat presented by Google Apps and similar platforms. Microsoft has a habit of launching large-scale betas for its products, the better to apparently weed out bugs and other issues ahead of the general…
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Payment Solutions Dumps Oracle, HP for IBM
IBM has announced that Payment Solution Providers has selected an IBM system z mainframe running DB2 over a system comprising Hewlett-Packard servers running Oracle database systems. IBM said PSP is consolidating its entire IT infrastructure on the IBM System z mainframe server with IBM information management software to support key business operations such as credit…