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Fujitsu TS ploughs more cash into channel
Fujitsu TS boss Michael Keegan has pledged to ramp up the firm's investment in its Channel Acceleration Programme in the coming months, to capitalise on a solid sales performance in recent months, and some lingering uncertainty over the future of riv... News | 06 Dec 2011
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Target fills gap left by Business Link shutdown
Target Components is to set up its own reseller business advisory practice to fill the gap left by the government's closure of the regional Business Link service, which was axed as part of the public sector spending cuts. The West Yorks-based distrib... News | 06 Dec 2011
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Fire kindled under Apple
Barely a fortnight since it was launched, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet looks to be proving a viable contender to the iron grip of sector big boy Apple, according to number-crunchers at IHS iSuppli. A preliminary projection from the US analysts' Displa... News | 05 Dec 2011
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Cost of Thailand floods runs into the millions for WD
The financial impact of the Thailand floods on Western Digital have run into the millions for its last financial quarter. WD was one of the hardest hit by the floods which swamped factories and component manufacturing facilities and it expects charg... News | 05 Dec 2011
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Questions raised over Comet deal
The Comet sell-off looks like it could be running into trouble with private equity group lined uyp to take on the struggling retailer having problems of its pown raising the capital needed to seal the deal. According to reports OpCapita, which is l... News | 02 Dec 2011
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 02 December 2011
A week when cloud predictions again came to the fore and thanks to the Chancellor George Osborne and his Autumn Statement thoughts also turned to the state of the economy. As public sector workers took to the streets to march against planned changes ... News | 02 Dec 2011
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MicroScope's review of the month: November 2011
The channel news agenda in November was dominated by a few key trends, with the Thai floods, tumult in the retail sector and the ever-present threat of channel-related crime all grabbing the attention of visitors to MicroScope.co.uk. Flood disaster s... News | 30 Nov 2011
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Monitor firm Eizo leaves Avnet to go it alone
Specialist-monitor vendor Eizo is to call time on a20-year relationship with Avnet in the new year to set up its own distribution operation, and is on the hunt for new partners to expand its channel proposition. Eizo sells high-spec display equipment... News | 30 Nov 2011
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Public sector urged to change attitude to IT to deliver change
Talk of capping salaries and keeping an eye on public sector costs in the Autumn Statement have provoked calls from the channel for more use of technology to save money and smaller suppliers to deliver efficiencies. The response to the Chancellor Ge... News | 29 Nov 2011
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Server sales down slightly across EMEA
Sales of servers in EMEA underwent a slight downturn during the third quarter, according to the latest market figures from Gartner, but the 0.5% dip was easily absorbed by stronger worldwide growth of 5.2%.B Western Europe was the worst performing re... News | 29 Nov 2011