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  • HP Lowers Cost of Entry into Point-of-Sale Systems

    When you think about the number of small business customers that still rely on electronic cash registers, you can see the outstanding opportunity for the channel. Of course, one of the reasons that there are so many companies still using electronic cash registers is the price of PC-based point-of-sale systems. Fully configured, the average PC-based…

  • Hiring Managers: You Want How Much $$$?

    Monster.com, the world’s largest online job listing portal, has tens of thousands of IT jobs listed. Hotjobs.com returns more than 27,000 IT, software development and telecommunication jobs. And Dice.com, the job site devoted exclusively to technology, lists more than 86,000 open positions. That’s just skimming the surface of a preliminary technology job search. Tens of…

  • Going Green with Managed Services

    by Pedro Pereira Going Green with Managed Services by Pedro Pereira The appeal of managed services for solution providers centers around the reduction in costs afforded by the ability to monitor and manage IT environments remotely. For end users, the attraction has to do with a combination of cost savings and increased computing reliability. In…

  • Environment Becomes Priority in Tech Buying Decisions

    Businesses and consumers are becoming more attuned to environmental concerns when making technology purchases, and they crave leadership on the issue from IT vendors, according to a new study. The study by market research firm Hansa GCR provides clear evidence that green IT buying decisions are no longer just about cutting energy costs, which has…

  • CSC Launches First Brand Advertising Campaign

    BOSTON (Reuters) – Technology services company Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to launch the first brand advertising campaign in its 50-year history in a bid to boost its profile. Rivals IBM (IBM), Accenture Ltd (ACN) and Electronic Data Systems, which was acquired last month by Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ),…

  • IBM Reworks Storage Strategy

    SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – IBM (IBM) is making a major push to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations. The company is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion…

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