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HP Palm Buy Leaves Tablet Space in Flux
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion. What’s less certain is how the deal might affect the nascent tablet PC market. HP has a number of decisions confronting it, including how to best integrate Palm’s products into its…
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IBM Targets Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Cast Iron Buy
Bolstering its play in the cloud, IBM has acquired Cast Iron Systems, which enables IT organizations to create hybrid cloud environments. Creating such hybrid environments is considered by many to be a key in enabling more movement to cloud computing and software as a service (SAAS) by enterprise customers because those large organizations are unlikely…
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HP’s Tablet Plans Likely to Include Palm WebOS, Not Microsoft
Palm’s WebOS mobile platform was said to be a list-topping asset, when the smartphone maker went shopping for a purchaser. And indeed, following the April 28 announcement that HP will acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, analysts are agreeing that WebOS was a major factor in the decision, particularly as it could potentially help HP compete…
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Finding Opportunity in Apple iPad Connectivity Problems
As anecdotal evidence of Apple iPad WiFi connectivity issues continues to mount, experts within the reseller channel believe that partners who make the effort to learn about workarounds stand to gain. The homework they do now will add to their iPad expertise which will lead to greater opportunities down the line when the iPad gains…
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Cisco Channel Execs Make a Big Deal Out of Using iPhone, iPad
Image via Wikipedia Cisco’s two major channel executives made a big point of mentioning their embrace of Apple mobile devices during last week’s Cisco Partner Summit in San Francisco. Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Worldwide Channel Organization Keith Goodwin told a keynote audience of partners that he’d moved to the iPhone just three weeks ago.…
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Tough Tactics as Cisco, HP Force Partners to Choose Sides
Image by frankblacknoir via Flickr As Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard have ratcheted up their competitive efforts against each other, with HP even scheduling its partner conference in Las Vegas the same week as Cisco’s partner summit in San Francisco, channel partners may very well be feeling much of the pain. Can you be vendor-agnostic and…
