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Get U.S. Open News on Your iPhone, Courtesy of IBM
For the golf-obsessed: if you find yourself rushing through client meetings so you can get back to your car, turn on the radio and check out the status of your favorite golfers competing in the U.S. Open Championship this week in San Diego, suffer no more. IBM and the USGA have partnered to relaunch the…
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Get Off of My Channel Cloud
Sometimes technology moves a little faster than most people in the channel would like. Even something as relatively new as managed services can find itself under assault from another computing model even before it has had much of a chance to establish itself. That seems to be what is happening with the advent of both…
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Toshiba Notebook Shows a Melding of Markets
Toshiba has always had to serve two masters with its notebook computer line. Certain systems were designed with the consumer in mind, while others were designed with the business user in mind. After all, the data processing needs of a typical business user are different from the edutainment needs of the typical consumer. But the…
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The Tech That Had VARs Talking in Hershey
This week’s D&H Mid-Atlantic Technology show drew some 1,000 attendees to Hershey, Pa. Besides great door prizes, the buffet dinner and the promise of a six-hour open bar, which products from the 128 vendors at the show had VARs clamoring to get into the exhibit hall? The results range from the practical to the frivolous. Henry…
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Avnet, HP Team to Offer Backup Vaulting as a Service
Solution providers can now add a hardware-as-a-service data vaulting service to their portfolios and a monthly recurring revenue stream to their top line thanks to a new alliance between Hewlett-Packard and distributor Avnet. Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of the distributor, has announced the collaboration with HP that offers a new managed service, HP…
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Survey: Alternative Vendors Offer Cutting-Edge Benefits
It’s a matter of when, not if. Eventually a customer will ask for some feature, function or price point that just can’t be pulled off with the current vendors’ product set. At that point, a VAR can try to come up with a custom solution from the products it already sells. According to a new…
