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Strong iPad and iPhone sales lift Apple to record numbers
Strong sales of iPads and iPhones helped deliver the numbers for Apple as the vendor unveiled its highest quarterly revenue in its history. The vendor shifted 37m iPhones and 15.43m iPads in the three months to 31 December and continues to see deman... News | 25 Jan 2012
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Acer to beef up commercial business strategy
Computing hardware specialist Acer is to roll out a new partner programme in the next few months with the express intent of beefing up its commercial business and targeting more enterprise customers. Speaking to MicroScope, Acer commercial business ... News | 25 Jan 2012
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Acer claims channel inventory down to a month
Acer claims to have put the inventory issues that plagued it during 2011 well and truly in the past, with the firm's new UK managing director Neil Marshall saying that it now held just a month's stock. The vendor's reputational stock took a beating l... News | 24 Jan 2012
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Resellers get fresh route to users with comparetheware.com
Resellers and vendors will have a chance to put their services and products in a virtual shop window with a website that is designed to provide users with a serach engine for IT that feels like well known online insurance services. The comparethewar... News | 23 Jan 2012
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Internet traffic key to glowing Intel future
Industry heavyweight Intelhas filed its year end figures, with full-year sales of $54bn (£34.8bn)andfourth quarterrevenue of $13.9bn. Post tax profit at the firm was up by 13% to $3.4bn. Intel's largestbusiness unit,the PC client group,accounte... News | 20 Jan 2012
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IBM charts steady course in 2011
IBM has reported steady fourth quarter numbers today, with netprofit for the three months to 31 December 2011 was up 4% to $5.5bn (£3.5bn) year-on-year, while total sales for the quarter increased2% to $29.5bn. Meanwhile, Big Blue postedfull ye... News | 20 Jan 2012
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Sirs leaves RM MD post after three months
Rob Sirs, group managing director of education IT specialist RM has stepped down for personal reasons after just three months in the role. Sirs stepped into the post in October after former boss Terry Sweeney handed in his resignation in the wake of ... News | 20 Jan 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 20 January 2012
Channel boss in Mail on Sunday sting Transputec bossRickie Sehgalspoke of his embarrassment after falling victim to a Mail on Sunday sting in which an undercover reporter posed as a businessman seeking access to senior Conservative party politicians,... News | 20 Jan 2012
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Customer indecision spells failure for IT projects
IT projects are continuing to fail in large numbers because the customer changes the brief after the work starts leaving resellers and consultants scrambling to meet changing requirements. The findings of research from MSM Software reveal that a res... News | 19 Jan 2012
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Kodak files for bankruptcy and plans restructure
Eastman Kodak, the firm is associated with cameras and printers, has filed for bankruptcy revealing the extent to which its financial difficulties have forced it to to the step of entering into Chapter 11. The firm revealed that it has been given a ... News | 19 Jan 2012