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Fujitsu Brings Business Solutions Store To The UK

Aerohive Adds To Distributor Ranks With Computerlinks
Aerohive's deal with second UK distributor will see its Branch On Demand offered with Computerlinks' Alvea

WatchGuard Adds To SMB Line-Up With Security Appliances
WatchGuard says XTM 25 and 26 UTM appliances give small businesses enterprise-class protection for a fraction of the cost

HP, Dell: Rising China Labour Costs May Mean Higher Prices
HP and Dell say they must decide how much of the increase to pass on to consumers

Spending Controls Squeeze £140 Million From Government ICT Spend
A more stringent procurement process is cutting the amount the government is spending, says Francis Maude

Government Aims To Save Money As G-Cloud Opens For Business
The UK government believes it will cut its custs by sourcing its services through the new CloudStore

South Lanarkshire Plans To Invest £40m In School IT
South Lanarkshire Council is looking for an IT supplier for schools and libraries acros the region

Companies Waste A Fortune On Desktop Management
Forget about virtualisation, desktop management still offers a great opportunity to make savings for clients, argued IDC's Nebuloni.

Channel Partners To Sell HP’s Cloud AppsTest
Testing laboratories cost a fortune to build and even more to run. With a cloud based testing service, software can be tested more often and more cheaply. Who knows, the quality of software in general might improve

PC Shipments In The UK Hit A Record Low
Tablets and smartphones fly off the shelves, while sales of desktops and laptops slump

UK Security Resellers Get Tufin’s Policy Management
The systems save on management costs by automating network security operations, claimed David Caughtry, director of core technology at Computerlinks. Their other selling point is that they help companies manage compliance through ch ...

Resellers Are Missing Wireless Boom, Warns InfiNet
with broadband rolling out, and the Olympics round the corner, there are rich pickings, says comms manufacturer InfiNet
Texas-Based Firehost Promises Unconstrained Clouds For The UK
Monthly contracts are so last year, says Texas based arrival to the UK scene

iPad VS Galaxy Tab – The German Court Battle Rages On
Apple and Samsung continue to exchange blows, with the showdown still to come

Middle Men Will Be Squeezed Out By The Cloud Says IBM
Organisations moving to shared clouds may route round large service providers, an IBM White Paper implies

Cisco Promises Simplified Product Line And Market Channels
Cisco's Padmasree Warrior promised to go for gold in the networking race but ruled out storage

Report Reveals Hackers Attacked Verisign Repeatedly In 2010

NetMediaEurope Acquires German Arm Of CBS Interactive
Europe’s leading pure-play online B2B IT publishing house to publish ZDNet.de, Silicon.de and CNET.de

BlackBerry Playbook Prices Crumble
US price cuts for RIM's playbook tablet have followed through quickly in the UK

NHS Disaster Will Cost CSC Dearly
US serviices giant CSC will face a major write-down over the failure of the NHS NPfIT project

Social Media: UK Businesses Needs To Buck Its Ideas Up
While 70 percent of businesses use social media, the UK figure is less than half, says a KPMG survey

Shock As Oracle Misses Quarterly Forecast
Oracle shares took a tumble as the software giant missed its quarterly forecast for the first time since 2001

UK Users Want iPhones For Christmas
Apple's iPhone 4S is top of the UK sales charts in the run-up to Christmas

Schmidt Hints Of Google’s Own Android Tablet
Google chairman lets slip there is a "high quality" tablet in the works. But who will make it?

Vultures Circle Over RIM
According to reports, Amazon, Nokia and Microsoft are all sizing up troubled BlackBerry maker RIM

iPad Supplies Hit By Factory Explosion
Explosion at Pegatron may cause minor delays to Apple iPad 2 production