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Toshiba, Lenovo Roll Out Multimedia 3D Laptops
Toshiba has announced the release of a series of refreshed, expanded and brand new notebooks under the Satellite brand, including the Satellite A665 3D graphics-ready notebook powered by Nvidia 3D vision technology. Equipped with a rewritable Blu-ray Disc drive, the 3D-ready A665 is also ready to support content playback in the Blu-ray 3D format. The…
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PC Sales Surge Spells Renewed Opportunity for VARs
IDC recently reaffirmed the renewed growth of the PC market in 2010 with new positive and hopeful numbers and forecasts. That spells great news for VARs relying on hardware sales as a key component of their businesses. In the first quarter of 2010, PC shipments surged at an unprecedented growth rate of 27.1 percent, underscoring…
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1. The Cloud Is Coming
1. The Cloud Is Coming Microsoft has finally made its first move to the Web with Office 2010. The company’s new productivity suite features Office Web Apps, a collection of its programs online. It was a smart move on Microsoft’s part to offer Web apps. But whether or not it will be enough to fend…
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Bill Clinton to Speak at Microsoft Partner Confab
Former President Bill Clinton will add political and humanitarian star power to this year’s gathering of software developers and resellers as the special guest speaker at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next month in Washington, D.C. Allison Watson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s worldwide partner group, started telegraphing teasers of a special guest speaker at…
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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 Anti-Virus is still one of the most important applications you can add to your shiny new Windows 7 installation, and is the very first thing you should do. AVG makes it simple, with a quick, free download and support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. So, why…
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Microsoft’s Worldwide Release of Office 2010
In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. While expectations for the software’s success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs. The worldwide launch of Office 2010 follows the software’s release…
