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Acer Ups Sales Forecast, Sees Small PC Boom
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer Inc. said on Tuesday its sales will grow by more than 50 percent this year, raising its previous forecast as demand for laptops grows despite consumers feeling the pinch from an economic slowdown and rising fuel and food prices. The world No.3 PC vendor said that smaller, cheaper laptops are…
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IBM to Sell Support for Rival to Microsoft Office
BOSTON (Reuters) – IBM will offer help desk service for its Symphony line of software, raising the competition with rival Microsoft Corp’s suite of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The programs from International Business Machines Corp have been available for free on its Web site since September 2007, but businesses can now buy contracts for help…
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Intel Starts Shipping Atom for PCs
Intel is preparing to ship the first of its Atom processors, which the chip maker believes will create an entire new category of low-cost PCs that it calls "Netbooks" and "Nettops." Intel announced the availability of two Atom processors—the Atom N270 processor and the Atom 230 chip—at the 2008 Computex conference in Taiwan. The company…
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2008: A Bright Outlook
If the economy is about to take a dive, solution providers don’t seem all that worried. Nearly three-fourths of channel companies polled in Ziff Davis Enterprise’s Channel Outlook 2008 study said they anticipate higher profits in the next 12 months, and many expect to achieve that with new customers, a sharpened focus on solution sales…
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VMware Virtualization Goes Generic
Looking to expand its market to reach more SMBs and geographies, VMware has announced that it will certify its VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisor on servers offered by certain white box manufacturers. The virtualization vendor announced its new relationships with ODMs (original design manufacturers) ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan at Computex Taipei. The new ODM…
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VARs Eye Boom in Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business
When Microsoft released its own hosted Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint offerings to sell directly to customers this past March, many observers expected a cold reception from the company’s longstanding channel partners. And some may indeed have felt a shiver when they heard that the world’s largest software company, and one that had always been…