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Consumer Electronics Industry Faces a Projected $17 Billion Product Returns Bill: Accenture
Customers returning electronics products will cost U.S. consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers nearly $17 billion this year, including receiving, assessing, repairing, reboxing, restocking and reselling returned products. This represents an increase of 21 percent since 2007, according to a research report from management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The research is…
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Dell to Hold Inagural Storage Forum in London in January
Dell will host its first annual Storage Forum in Europe from Jan. 9-12 in London. Officially named “Dell Storage Forum London 2012,” the convention will provide customers and channel partners with a series of executive and technical sessions plus hands-on access to the Dell Fluid Data architecture and the entire storage portfolio, including the Compellent,…
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Apple’s iPad 3: What to Expect
What features could end up in Apple s iPad 3? That Apple intends to introduce a successor to its bestselling tablet is a dead certainty. The bigger questions are when the device will hit the market, and what new hardware and software the company will pack into its slim frame. If Apple follows the same…
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Autotask Passes Ownership of VARStreet Through Employee Buyout
Autotask, a provider of hosted IT business management solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement to transfer ownership of its VARStreet quoting and e-commerce product line, including all ongoing development, sales, hosting, implementation, support and billing, through an employee buyout. Autotask software manages critical business operations and processes for technology services-centric organizations, and its software-as-a-service…
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Microsoft Giving Final CES Keynote in 2012
A keynote by Microsoft’s CEO has long anchored the beginning of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the company usually accompanies that speech with a huge booth on the convention floor. Starting in 2013, however, Microsoft will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at CES. “We have decided that this…
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Microsoft, MasterCard Partner on Office 365 Program
Payments and technology company MasterCard Worldwide and technology giant Microsoft extended their pledge to increase technology and payment services to small businesses through a new strategic initiative that sees MasterCard become a member of the partner program for Office 365, a cloud productivity service that gives small businesses access to email, documents, contacts and calendars…