February 2011
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February 17, 2011
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Feb'11
Alec Baldwin flogs Cisco TelePresence
The news that product placement is to be allowed on commercial TV in the UK reminded Network Noise of a recent episode of US sitcom 30 Rock, starring Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey. Continue Reading
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February 17, 2011
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Feb'11
Lower insurance premiums on the horizon?
Good news! Motorists may see lower insurance premiums as seven insurance companies and two IT software and service providers have provisionally agreed to limit the data that they exchange between them after the Office of Fair Trading raised ... Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
US companies want to bring their money home
An interesting story which originally appeared in Forbes, has revealed that a consortium of companies - Cisco, Oracle, Apple and Pfizer among them - are lobbying the US government for a tax holiday to repatriate as much as $1 trillion banked in ... Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Dell buying AMD would be the irony to end all ironies
Dell was quizzed about its acquisition strategy on a conference call with analysts last night but nobody mentioned the white elephant in the room; the feverish industry talk that it is looking to buy AMD. Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Dell profits swell on back of biz refresh cycles
Falling components prices and the continued tech refresh cycle helped Dell nearly triple profits in the fourth quarter though sales fell below analyst expectations. The Texan PC giant pushed up revenues for the period by 5% to $15.7bn as profits ... Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Resellers urged to deal with more service queries online
Resellers are being encouraged to provide more help for their customers online via their websites and through social media platforms. Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Chinese comms firm to bid for Nortel patents
Chinese telecoms firm ZTE has thrown its hat into the ring in the race to acquire Nortel's networking patents, expressing particular interest in its LTE intellectual property (IP), according to Reuters. In an interview, ZTE IP director Wang Haibo ... Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Micro Focus shares slide after profits warning
Micro Focus has admitted that the revenue it managed to hit in the three months to 31 January were below its own expectations and it will not be able to make up the shortfall by the end of its fiscal year. Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Kroll Ontrack makes tweaks to data recovery partner set-up
Data recovery technology and services vendor Kroll On track is attempting to galvanise its existing partner programme with the addition of extra services designed to enable partners to manage 'disaster' situations. Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Google chief: Nokia should've gone with us
As if yesterday's damning analysis by analyst Will Gibbs at IHS iSuppli was not clear enough on the subject, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has now stuck his oar into the furore surrounding Nokia and Microsoft's decision ... Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
ShoreTel's Don Girskis reflects on time at the top
Last week, Network Noise sat down for coffee and sandwiches with Don Girskis, worldwide sales vice president and erstwhile interim CEO at ShoreTel. Continue Reading
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February 16, 2011
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Feb'11
Workplace dispute reforms proposed
Plans to improve the way in which workplace disputes are resolved have been published by the Government. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
2e2 appoints broker to seek buyer for Morse units
2e2 is testing the waters ahead of a possible sale of its businesses in Ireland and Spain, which it inherited during last year's Morse acquisition. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
IBM rolls out Cloud Computing Speciality programme
IBM used day one of its PartnerWorld conference to roll out a cloud computing specialty programme. The initiative covers five partner types - cloud application providers, cloud builders, cloud infrastructure providers, resellers and cloud technology... Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
Denman's Diary: Mobile World Congress 2011 is all about collaboration
It may have rained for most of the first day, but so far, Mobile World Congress has been anything but a wash out, writes Open wave chief executive Ken Denman Official visitor numbers have yet to be announced, but the place seemed to be packed. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
The sandwich index points to tough times
Now and again a press release floats across the desk that grabs the attention for no other reason than humour when perhaps it is intended to stir deeper and more serious passions. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
Apple moves to secure components, plots baby iPhone?
Following last month's news that Apple was seeing constrained supplies of iPhone components, a high-profile leak to the South Korean media. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
Intellect tells government IT growth can help the economy
IT trade body Intellect has met with leading members of the coalition government and put the case for putting technology at the heart of the nation's growth strategy. Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
ShoreTel outlines plan for profitability, acquisitions
ShoreTel worldwide sales senior vice president and former interim CEO Don Girskis has outlined the UC vendor's evolving strategy and thrown his weight behind newly-appointed CEO Peter Blackmore's pledge to turn the firm profitable by the middle of ... Continue Reading
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February 15, 2011
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Feb'11
Insight takes a hit on LAR changes
Ouch. Insight has predicted that the changes to Microsoft's fees for LARs (large account resellers) could make a dent of $5m to $10m in gross profits. Not turnover, profits. Insight says it is "implementing action plans intended to help mitigate ... Continue Reading