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Dell Pans iPad as Too Complex, Costly for Business
A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise. “Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island,” Andy Lark, who leads the global marketing efforts for Dell’s Large Enterprise Group, told CIO Australia in a March…
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Why Microsoft Must Make Its Own Tablet
Why Microsoft Must Make Its Own Tablet 1. Where Are All the Partners?Microsoft currently has a partnership in place with a few vendors to develop Windows 7 tablets. In fact, Acer’s Windows 7 tablet is launching soon. But so far, Microsoft has been unable to sign a significant number of hardware partners. Realizing that, maybe…
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Cisco to Buy newScale to Boost Cloud Offerings
Cisco Systems is looking to bolster its cloud computing services offering by acquiring privately held newScale, a company that offers software that enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Cisco announced the deal March 29. No financial details were disclosed. NewScale, which company officials said has about 2 million users worldwide,…
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Cisco Pushes Partners to the Architecture Sale
Cisco Systems’ channel partners are being asked to think beyond selling solutions in much the same way they were asked not so many years ago to think beyond selling point products. The move towards selling what Cisco calls business architectures is meant to create a level of integration across systems that will improve the applications…
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Why Customers Prefer iPad over HP TouchPad
Even as HP was demonstrating its HP Touchpad tablet device in a table top exhibit at its Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week, plenty of HP channel partners were walking around at the event toting iPads. That’s because Apple iPad enjoys one extremely tangible benefit over what HP’s Touchpad does right now. Apple’s…
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HP Touchpad A Quick Look at HPs iPad Killer
HP Touchpad A Quick Look at HPs iPad Killer The HP Touchpad features both front- and back-facing cameras, and HP is in talks with Skype to include that software as the engine for video conferencing on the device. No Title The device will ship with 32 or 16 gigabytes of storage, but will not accommodate…
