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Supply Chain Affirms Intel Statement: PC Market Bottoming Out
Recent statements from processor maker Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and electronics and IT distributor Avnet (NYSE: AVT) that PC sales may have hit bottom may not be so far off the mark, even if processor maker AMD (NYSE: AMD) disagrees. Supply chain checks this month into second quarter PC builds with the top five notebook original design…
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IBM Global Financing Extends $2B in Stimulus Fund Credit
IBM Global Financing is adding another $2 billion in credit available to end customers over and above the approximately $40 billion it offers them each year, in an effort to jumpstart any IBM-related IT projects that may be awaiting economic stimulus funds expected to become available as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment…
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Dell Likely to Enter the Mobile Smartphone Business
Dell is likely to introduce a smartphone device in the next six months, attracted to the form factor by high margins, falling sales of laptop and desktop computers, and the potential of mobile Internet devices. That prediction from Bernstein Research is no surprise, given Gartner’s bleak assessment for PC sales in 2009, showing them declining…
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IBM Goes Up Against Cisco, Resells Brocade Switches and Routers
IBM will begin selling Brocade routers and switches to enterprise customers under its own brand through a new OEM agreement between the two companies. Under the agreement, IBM will sell the Brocade NetIron MLX Series routers as the IBM m-Series, the Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series switches as the IBM c-Series, the Brocade FastIron SX…
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NComputing`s X Series Combines Low Cost with Virtualized Thin Client Computing
Businesses of all sizes are looking to squeeze the most value out of the typical desktop PC, but the question remains, how low can you go? While some businesses may choose to go as low-end as possible to shave a few bucks off a PC, Ncomputing is offering a different way to maximize value. The…
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Sun Microsystems Q3 Revenues Fall 20 Percent
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) grew billings nearly 4 percent year over year in total software, open storage, Solaris-based SPARC CMT servers and X64 servers during its third fiscal quarter, but that was not enough to stop revenue from dropping 20 percent compared with the same period last year. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009…
