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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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Analyzing Oracle’s US$8.5B BEA acquisition

BEA’s best of breed middleware seen as key to success of Oracle’s Fusion suite

Pretty as a picture: Apple’s new MacBook Air

Plus, Oracle acquires BEA and banning writers from Facebook

Dell tops HP as the largest PC supplier in the US

The former direct darling’s embrace of the retail channel is paying dividends

Sales rep at Cisco reseller pleads guilty to fraud

Admits in plea he schemed to defraud Cisco though its SMARTnet service contract program

Intel announces focus research areas for ’08

Prototypes of Intel’s Terascale chips should be achieved sometime next year

Russia OKs Canadian wireless backhaul product

Ottawa’s DragonWave is getting set to crack the Russian market through a partnership with Cerdicom

BEA finally says yes to Oracle, while Sun opens its wallet for MySQL

The BEA deal goes down after Oracle sweetens its offer by US$1.8 billion

Stop the big-drive addiction

New 2.5-inch drives from Hitachi open worthwhile possibilities for laptops and storage arrays

Apple releases super slim MacBook

Called Air, the notebook measures 0.8 to 1.2 inches in thickness, while weighing only three pounds

A notebook for the gamer in us all

HP’s Pavilion dv9615ca Entertainment Notebook is great for everything multi-media

Technology a key enabler to business growth, says study

Microsoft-sponsored research says IT can help small businesses cross the mid-sized business threshold

An AMD/IBM merger would not be good for system builders

Published report has the industry speculating over a potential high profile acquisition

Microsoft partners to deliver ads on shopping carts

Ads will be delivered through Microsoft’s Atlas, Windows CE and SQL Server technologies

First Mac ‘scareware’ makes appearance

Mac users will need to be more cautious in the future, says security vendor

Updated Cognos tool offers expanded performance management

Release comes one day after shareholders approved the company’s sale to IBM

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