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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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Dell Sees IT Spending Slow Through Summer 2008
Dell is expecting IT spending to cool down this summer. While the Round Rock, Texas, PC vendor posted solid financial numbers May 29, it warned that the slowing U.S. economy will continue to force enterprises and small businesses to curb their IT spending throughout the 2008 summer. For the company’s 2009 fiscal first quarter, which…
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Harris Under Fire in Census Mobile Debacle
Don’t worry, Americans: You will be counted as part of the 2010 U.S. census—just not as efficiently as planned, thanks to the meltdown of a major mobile computing implementation that was supposed to bring the huge data-collection project into the wireless age. The goal was to make participating in the census as easy as signing…
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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…