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Apple Topples Samsung in Smartphone Shipments: Juniper
Apple has overtaken Samsung again during the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 were iPhones. While Apple overtook Samsung to reach the pole position, the Korean giant has increased its market share four-fold since Q1 2010,…
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Android Counterclank Malware Hits Android Market
A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant…
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The Customer Loyalty Crisis of 2012
Now that the New Year has started, let’s talk about your customers for a moment. Customer retention is always a challenge, and as such, it must be a priority in any company’s strategic business plans for the year. Fortunately for IT services providers, they have never had better customer-retention tools at their fingertips than now.…
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Storage, Servers, Software Boom for Avnet in Q2
The big data explosion and a growing concern in the C-suite that IT drive efficiency and productivity mean that storage is selling. And it’s selling well, according to value-added distributor Avnet Technology Solutions. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based company announced its second quarter earnings for fiscal year 2012 on Jan. 26, and storage was its big seller…
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Dell, Microsoft, VMware Partner on vStart Cloud System
Back in April 2011, Dell, Microsoft and VMware got into a three-way marriage to co-develop private cloud systems. As nature would have it, nine months after the consummation of the deal, the partnership is resulting in new offspring. On Jan. 25, the trio came out with vStart, a new preconfigured cloud system server that the…
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Cisco to Leverage Routers, WAN to Connect Enterprises to the Cloud
Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services–such as security and collaboration–onto its Integrated Service Routers…
