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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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Kanye West wants you on his search engine

Plus Dell and Intel and Microsoft Vista’s SP1

HP All-in-One Instant Rebates from Tech Data

Tech Data Canada and HP Canada partner on a promotion

Is 2008 the year VoIP becomes mainstream?

Predictions abound, but this technology must now graduate to business

Avaya slashes channel pricing

Vendor’s MultiVantage Express line sees the biggest cuts

Seven steps for deploying unified communications

IT solutions and services provider says all seven steps are crucial for unified communications deployment

Wiihabilitation is the new and latest rehab

Plus, the importance of communication skills and more on Microsoft and Yahoo

Inside the Green Grid’s action plan

The environmentally-minded industry consortium held its technical committee meeting with input from U.S., Japanese and European concerns

SAS revs data-mining, forecasting tools

A greater leap in functionality than was seen in previous revisions promised

Dell moves AMD consumer PCs offline to retail

The vendor will focus instead on offering Intel-based PCs online

Report: Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft’s US$44.6B buyout bid

A search advertising partnership with rival Google may be an alternative for Yahoo

Reviewing Apple’s new 32GB iPod touch

Battery life and screen brightness are improved from the original 16GB iTouch, but it still falls short of iPhone standards

Sun/Intel alliance driving system builder differentiation

The two vendors unveil the latest fruit of their joint collaboration

OpenID gains support for online single sign-on

IBM, VeriSign and the major search firms are all backing a framework that would ease the user name and password hassles

Compugen targets Southwestern Ontario with Orbex acquisition

Orbex says it needed more resources to help its clients grow to the next level

Oki Printing Solutions C3530n color laser MFP

Factor in the consumables and this printer isn’t a great bargain

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