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Expected Investment Surge Pushes IT Growth Outlook to Record High: CDW
While overall anticipated IT spending has grown two percentage points to reach 42 percent, most sectors saw significant increases in spending optimism, according to the latest CDW IT Monitor. Growing optimism and greater anticipation of increased IT investments among IT decision-makers propelled the company’s six-month growth outlook composite score to 71, jumping three points since…
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Integra Telecom Announces Collaboration and Messaging Services
Integra Telecom, a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, announced it is expanding its offering of cloud services for businesses to include collaboration and messaging services. Integra is providing networkwide availability of hosted Microsoft Communication Services, which includes Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft SharePoint, enhanced encryption and other enhanced features.…
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Lenovo, IBM Look to High Schools for Future IT Workers
As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology staff by reaching out to potential candidates in high school. Lenovo recently announced an effort with the National Academy Foundation to launch a program to help high school students learn mobile app…
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Apple Topples Samsung in Smartphone Shipments: Juniper
Apple has overtaken Samsung again during the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 were iPhones. While Apple overtook Samsung to reach the pole position, the Korean giant has increased its market share four-fold since Q1 2010,…
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Android Counterclank Malware Hits Android Market
A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant…
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Is Flash Ready for Enterprise Tier 1 Storage?
When it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed king. However, flash memory has also been the leader in another area as well–expense. Until recently, flash memory has proved to be far too expensive for the typical enterprise to deploy for tier 1 storage. Simply put, the performance offered was not worth…