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High notebook shipment offset by low desktop PC revenue, says NPD

High notebook shipment contrasted by low desktop PC revenue, and the semiconductor shortage will last for at least another six months.

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High notebook shipment offset by low desktop PC revenue, says NPD

High notebook shipment contrasted by low desktop PC revenue, and the semiconductor shortage will last for at least another six months.

Cisco launches Cisco Plus as-a-service portfolio

Cisco Canada president on strategy and company’s new Office of the CTO

Cisco Canada’s new president, Shannon Leininger, took advantage of her first media and analyst roundtable to run through Cisco’s overall strategy and to introduce the new Office of the CTO.

Synnex to combine with Tech Data to create $57B distribution giant

Distributor giants Synnex and Tech Data have joined forces to create an even bigger beast valued at roughly $57 billion.

Backups by default with no extra cost could be the standard, says OVHcloud founder

After an unexplained fire destroyed one of its data centres in Strasbourg, France last week, hosting provider OVHcloud’s founder says it’s time to shake up how backup services are delivered.

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Belkin’s new WeMo smart switches and Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant – All Hands on Tech at CES 2019

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Channel Strategy News

Dell’s tablet plans for this year

Plus, the mobile payment industry and Nimsoft’s new Unified Manager SaaS solution

SugarCRM buys Lotus Notes tools, cozies up to IBM

The CRM vendor also previewed its Spring release, which includes client apps for iPad and Android devices

Two minutes with the founder of Intuit

Scott Cook reflects back on the 28-year old financial and tax software solutions company

Symantec reveals findings from its latest Internet Security Threat Report

Volume 16 of the report highlights five key threats that emerged in 2010

EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness

A strategic move for RSA that delivers benefits for NetWitness partners

Can Google, Amazon Gang up on iPhone?

Five factors make this partnership a winning competitor in smartphones and tablets

Equity firm to buy Epicor for $2 billion

The pending acquisitions will create one of the largest ERP software vendors

Sony to enter Android tablet market this year

Plus, AMD’s new Llano 32nm processor and Allison Johnson to leave Apple

Google bids $900M for Nortel patent portfolio

Google hopes the patents help it fend off lawsuits and boost its technologies

Lenovo Thinkpad X220

Lenovo’s latest ultraportable is a long-running dynamo with a great keyboard

29 must haves when hiring a channel marketing & sales person

Hiring the right marketing, sales people is always difficult because success elsewhere may not translate into success for your company, for you

iPad, iPhone get remote heart-monitoring app

Physicians can monitor a patient’s heart with near-real-time ECG readouts

New cloud computing standards on the way

The standards organization hopes to minimize cloud fragmentationrn

Microsoft reconsiders Windows Phone 7 app rejection

It said an app that shows photos from Twitter needs filters but now appears to be reconsidering

Eight radical ways to cut power costs

One or more of these wild-eyed approaches could save you a lot of money — and not cost you much

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