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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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Focus on your most important investment

This investment comes down to focusing your time on the three sales areas: prospecting, presenting and closing.

IBM reportedly eyes Wind River deal

Big Blue may be planning to acquire embedded software company Wind River Systems, industry sources say

Lenovo gets exclusive

Ingram Micro Canada and Lenovo Canada partner on a promotion

Dell’s fraud report

This could end up amounting to nothing, which is what happened to Bolt.com

SCO loss no real relief to Linux community

Vendor’s legal threats were already discounted — but Microsoft’s are another story

Dell to restate results

Internal audit discovers account balances were changed to meet financial targets

Microsoft reveals first Vista gadget bugs

‘Next-generation’ vulnerabilities have now arrived, says researcher

Weird, scary and bizarre iPhone tales

See the elastic iPhone, and meet Lobster-Thumb Boy

IBM extends support for Sun’s Solaris

IBM will distribute Solaris OS and Solaris Subscriptions for some of its System x servers and BladeCenter blade servers

Businesses giving Vista the cold shoulder

Forrester report states compatibility just one reason enterprises would rather stick with XP

WLAN spending to hit double digits

The average spend will rise to 17 per cent, but the enterprise spend on 802.11n won’t start for over a year

Sun, IBM ink OS agreement

The two companies will provide details during a Thursday conference call

Dell customer satisfaction levels slip again

Rivals HP and Gateway rise in the rankings

Google, Viacom lawsuit takes a hilarious turn

The search giant wants to bring some Colbert ‘truthiness’ into the proceedings

AppleWorks RIP

Apple kills off productivity application suite first developed by its software subsidiary Claris

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