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Printers and Enterprise Servers Expected to Drag on HP Sales
All eyes are on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) this afternoon as the technology giant—a bellwether for other companies in the personal computer, server and printer spaces, among other technologies—announces its second-quarter earnings. And the news looks to be bleak for printing and enterprise servers and storage. As business and consumers continue to delay the purchase of new…
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Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently. Cisco’s so called “Smart Grid” infrastructure plan looks to create a two-way communications…
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Cisco’s Chief: I’m Here to Stay
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) Chief Executive John Chambers said on Monday that he would probably stay in his position for at least another three to five years. Asked at a JP Morgan technology conference about his future plans — for example, if he would move into politics — the 59-year-old head…
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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Distributor Group Says Recession Close to Bottom
Intel has said the PC market has hit bottom, and analysts and at least one distributor seem to agree, even if some significantnaysayers remain. But adding to the it’s-not-getting-any-worse camp, this week the Global Technology Distribution Council, a consortium of IT distributors, says that the sales declines that the industry have experienced are slowing down…