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Fujitsu Lifebook A Series Notebooks Combat the Pepsi Syndrome
When it comes to desktop replacement notebook computers, everyone talks about screen size, performance, storage and networking capabilities, but you never hear anyone mention how that notebook works after an encounter with a large cola. It doesn’t have to be a cola, either; it could be an un-cola, a bottle of water, a cup of…
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Marathon Makes a Run for Virtualization
Marathon Technologies has unveiled EverRun VM software, a technology that the company says will help VARs speed the acceptance of virtualization and disaster recovery solutions for midmarket companies running Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. Sold 100 percent through the channel, the company’s technology comes from disaster recovery roots, according to Steve Keilen, vice president of marketing.…
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Dell, HP Confronting Shortage of Laptop Batteries
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Dell Inc said on Tuesday the personal-computer industry was experiencing a shortage of laptop batteries partly because of a recent fire at a major supplier, but the company was working with other suppliers to limit any price increases. Dell, the world’s second-largest PC maker after Hewlett-Packard Co., also said prices of its separately sold…
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SonicWall Looks to Protect the Enterprise with the NSA 3500
Anyone who has worked with network security products should be very familiar with the name SonicWall, a vendor that has been shaking things up in the small and midsize business world for some time. Now, SonicWall is looking to shake things up in the enterprise security market as well with its NSA series of products.…
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Dell Denies Problems with Solid State Drives
Dell says its solid state drives are working just fine. Officials with the PC vendor are denying a report released by Avian Securities that the SSDs the company offers as an option with many of its PCs have a high rate of failure and suffer from performance problems. Dell also denied that the return rate…
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Channel Exec Shake Up at Intel?
Intel may be losing four of its top channel executives, according to published reports. The executives are reportedly taking retirement packages as part of Intel’s ongoing and widely reported restructuring plan. The reports say that the departing executives are Shirley Turner, director of North American channel marketing; Nick Davison, director of North American channel sales;…