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HP`s Channel Commitment Pays Off
Hewlett-Packard’s announcement this week that it expects to exceed Wall Street expectations in the fourth quarter offers a beacon of hope in a decisively grim economic environment. The vendor on Nov. 18 disclosed preliminary fourth quarter results indicating a 19 percent revenue jump and a 4 percent earnings increase from the year-ago quarter. The estimated…
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Challenges Mount for PC Maker Dell
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc, the world’s No. 2 PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as cost cuts offset lower revenue, sending its shares up about 6 percent. Dell had been facing subdued expectations for the October quarter. The company warned in September, just weeks after reporting second-quarter results, that it…
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Analyst: Price a Wild Card for PC Maker Dell Next Year
While competitor Hewlett-Packard reported better than expected earnings and revenue in its quarterly announcement this week, the picture for Dell in the year ahead is not nearly as bright. In a preview of Dell’s earnings announcement slated for Thursday, financial analyst firm Bernstein Research said it was lowering its revenue and earnings estimates for the…
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Going Green, from Desktop to Data Center
The plunge in oil prices couching the ongoing economic downturn could foster complacency about going green, but IT vendors are doing their best to prevent that. From the desktop to the data center, vendors are pushing technology and services that reduce power consumption and boost technology performance. It may be cheaper to drive than it…
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Netvanta Switch Line Goes Green with Energy Saving Features
The most recent Adtran Netvanta switches incorporate a couple of features that should be of interest to solution providers looking to help green their customers’ environments and speed troubleshooting tasks. The “green” features come as part of the POE (Power Over Ethernet) option offered on some of Adtran’s switches and focus on the ability to…
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HTC Touch Pro Sprints into Mobile Smartphone Market
While unified communications may be a buzz word of note, lately, many forget it is really the software and hardware combination that makes everything unified to begin with. The problem is that most unified communications solutions start to fall apart once the user leaves his or her desk. To resolve that issue, solution providers are…
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