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Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Avaya, and Polycom Draw Battle Lines in Unified Communications War
Thousands of companies have deployed voice on their IP networks, and as the benefits of other unified communications technologies become more obvious, they’re looking to build on their voice deployments and integrate communications together. The fractured market is made up of major vendors such as Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) acting as one-stop shops, alliances of vendors…
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Three Things Microsoft Must Do to Win Back the Mobile Enterprise
If Microsoft wants to rescale the mobile mountain, winning back the enterprise with its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system, there are some things the folks in Redmond need to do—and fast. Here are the three things Microsoft must do to win its territory back from RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. Number 1: Windows Phone…
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Can Microsoft Win Back the Mobile Enterprise from iPhone and Blackberry?
Everyone knows Microsoft made some bad missteps with its mobile strategy over the past couple of years. The Windows Mobile platform went from being the defacto standard for the enterprise to rapidly losing market share because of the company’s failure to hurry up, make a decision, and get cracking on unleashing a full-featured operating system…
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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…
