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Apple iPad Tablet Rivals Picking Up Sales
Tablet sales in the United States, excluding units of Apple’s market-leading iPad device, soared to more than 1.2 million units sold from January through October and brought in $415 million in revenue at retail, according to market research company The NPD Group’s monthly Connected Handhelds Report. Total tablet industry sales, for both hardware and accessories,…
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HP’s Whitman Promises ‘No More Surprises’
Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman–as well as the company’s embattled board of directors, 324,000 employees and shareholders–breathed easier Nov. 21 after the company turned in a fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report that outperformed Wall Street analysts’ projections. The news bolstered the company’s stock price early in the day by 4 to 6 percent, but ultimately the…
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Grow Your Company and Transform Yourself into a Leader and Visionary
Are you the president of your company, or are you CEO? There’s a difference, according to Arlin Sorensen, CEO of Heartland Technology Solutions and founder of the MSP peer organization Heartland Technology Group. The difference is that CEOs provide strategic vision while presidents execute, Sorensen told attendees at a breakout session during the Connectwise IT…
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Cisco Readies WebEx, Jabber for ‘Post-PC’ Era
Cisco Systems is looking to grow the capabilities of its collaboration offerings–including WebEx and Jabber to address the mobile trends of what company executives agree is the post-PC era. At the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2011 event in Miami Nov. 16, company officials announced enhancements to WebEx and Jabber to enable users to leverage the new…
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Tech Data Profits Up as Currencies Change
Showing strength under challenging conditions amid fears of a worldwide economic slowdown, IT products distributor Tech Data saw its third quarter sales rise to nearly $6.6 billion, a 7 percent increase from the same period last year. Operating income for the third quarter was $89.6 million. The company noted the strengthening of certain foreign currencies…