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KeyScan Melds Keyboard and Color Scanner into a New Peripheral
The typical business is awash in paper. There are invoices, purchase orders, letters, receipts and so on floating around on the typical knowledge worker’s desk, sapping productivity and creating aggravation. Making that paper problem “go away” is the design goal of KeyScan with the KS810 keyboard scanner. At $159, the KS810 offers a multifunction device,…
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Report: IT Spending Growth Expectations Lower for Second Half
IT hardware spending will likely show low single-digit growth for the second half of 2008, lower than original estimates, in the wake of weak corporate earnings and other indicators. That’s according to a report from Bernstein Research Senior Analyst A.M. Sacconaghi Jr., who said while the current consensus expectation is for 7.5 percent IT spending…
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GE Capital CDS Trade at Junk-Rating Levels
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Derivatives traders were pricing General Electric Co’s (NASDAQ:GE) finance arm at junk levels on Wednesday amid worries that a deepening credit crunch is raising financing costs for the top-rated firm. General Electric Capital’s five-year credit default swaps rose by 150 basis points to 700 basis points, or $700,000 a…
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HP to Buy Storage Firm LeftHand for $360M
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NASDAQ:HPQ) has agreed to buy LeftHand Networks Inc, a network storage provider, for $360 million in cash to extend its storage technology offerings for mid-sized companies. The acquisition, which is expected to close in HP’s fiscal first quarter of 2009, is subject to purchase price adjustments, HP…
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Sunbelt Software’s CWSandbox Lets VARs Test IT Security
Trust is the key element when it comes to selling security products and services. Solution providers have to trust that vendors have created a product that actually works and customers have to trust that solution providers are offering a product that actually protects. But, as they say, the proof is in the pudding. In other…
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Intuit Turns to Online Features to Keep QuickBooks on the Desktop
Accounting is the bedrock of any business and it takes good accounting to build a good business. For years, SMBs have turned to Intuit’s QuickBooks to keep finances under control. And, despite Intuit’s direct-sales history, solution providers are often the ones sourcing, installing and supporting QuickBooks in SMB environment. The accounting and finance application market…
