Wall Street and Technology: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:37:14 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Wed.. HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:37:14 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:37:14 GMTLast-Modified: Tue, Jan 27 2099 23:59:59 GMTPragma: no-cacheX-ATG-Version: ATGPlatform/7.2 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=CM4YNS4LZ40VGQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2 JVN; path=/Location: http://www.financetech.com/rss/all_wt.xm l?_ ... The Register: US, EU tech trade row gets serious Formal objection madeThe US has made a formal request for the World Trade Organisation to review technology import definitions which it accuses the EU of using for protectionist purposes.… The Register: HP makes things personal again in Q3 Computers and currencydo their thingIn a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.… The Register: Bell Micro touts Emulex 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs You've read the headline - it's a 'significant' product, according to Bell Micro, the storage distie, which is making new 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs available in Europe. Compared with the earlier 4Gb/s configurations, the new models offer more headroom to 'consolidate more resources, free up servers and reduce procurement and management costs." And that is goo ... The Register: Big UK resellers confident despite world's gloom ‘Everyone’s a winner, Rodney’Customer demand for virtualisation, security and unified communication technologies has helped large UK resellers outgrow the European IT market over the past year.… Wall Street and Technology: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:14 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Wed.. HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:14 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:14 GMTLast-Modified: Tue, Jan 27 2099 23:59:59 GMTPragma: no-cacheX-ATG-Version: ATGPlatform/7.2 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=GK2PEQXVCI0CMQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2 JVN; path=/Location: http://www.financetech.com/rss/all_wt.xm l?_ ... The Register: Apple tops customer satisfaction poll as rivals' ratings slide Windows Vista to blame?Apple has been named the computer maker that most satisfies its customers after it scored a personal best of 85 out of 100 - ten points above its nearest rival, Dell - in a key US customer satisfaction index.… The Register: Tech sector burnt by biz confidence meltdown Recession, recession, recessionFinance professionals’ confidence in the IT sector is slipping as UK businesses face the toughest trading environment since the early 1990s, according to a new report.… Wall Street and Technology: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:37:23 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Tue.. HTTP/1.1 302 Moved TemporarilyDate: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:37:23 GMTServer: ApacheCache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0Expires: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:37:23 GMTLast-Modified: Tue, Jan 27 2099 23:59:59 GMTPragma: no-cacheX-ATG-Version: ATGPlatform/7.2 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=TFJOHY0SQF5M0QSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2 JVN; path=/Location: http://www.financetech.com/rss/all_wt.xm l?_ ... The Register: Steady as she goes at DiData Dimension Data today issued an upbeat interim management statement for the period 1 April to 18 August. 18. The reseller giant experienced “good demand�, achieved gross margin stability, kept a lid on costs and maintained a sold net cash position.… Microsoft preps Yahoo! proxy attack Microsoft immune system rejects execs Dell Ex-CEO Rollins to get $48 million cash Microsoft UK changes mind on distie beauty parade Computerland hires new exec

The Register - Channel: Market News Biting the hand that feeds IT. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·US, EU tech trade row gets serious Formal objection madeThe US has made a formal request for the World Trade Organisation to review technology import definitions which it accuses the EU of using for protectionist purposes.… ·HP makes things personal again in Q3 Computers and currencydo their thingIn a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.… ·Apple tops customer satisfaction poll as rivals' ratings slide Windows Vista to blame?Apple has been named the computer maker that most satisfies its customers after it scored a personal best of 85 out of 100 - ten points above its nearest rival, Dell - in a key US customer satisfaction index.… ·Tech sector burnt by biz confidence meltdown Recession, recession, recessionFinance professionals’ confidence in the IT sector is slipping as UK businesses face the toughest trading environment since the early 1990s, according to a new report.… ·Michael Dell mulls 'Newcastle Utd investment' We are not making this upHere's an odd one, from the sports pages of yesterday's Daily Telegraph (can't find a link online, sorry). Citing reports, the paper says Michael Dell is mulling an investment in Newcastle United, the Premier League football club.… ·Integralis shrugs off credit crunch in H1 Integralis, the German-owned, IT security services firm, pumped out a H1 statement today, showing sales up 18.4 per cent to €80.4m (H107: €68m). As it's quoted in Germany, the firm is a little spare with the profit details. But it says operating profit was up 51.1 per cent and it notes a big uplift in cash flow from operating activities to €2.6m. And the biggest order backlog to date.… ·eBay wins right to not police counterfeit goods Tat seller wins rights totatA court in Belgium has thrown out a complaint by L'Oreal that eBay was not doing enough to combat sales of fake versions of the cosmetics giant's products on its site.… ·BT hires ex-C&W boss to run Global Services (UK) BT has appointed Royston Hoggarth, the former CEO of C&W's UK operations, to run the UK side of its Global Services division. He replaces Tim Smart who is off to King's College Hospital (National Health Service) Foundation Trust, Dow Jones newswire reports.… ·Tiffany demands reappraisal of eBay counterfeit decision Doesn't want all that glitters to be soldJewelry giant Tiffany & Co. is appealing a recent federal court decision that cleared eBay from responsibility for counterfeit items which appear on the online auction site.… ·MessageLabs mulls float as economy sinks Says Saas bucking marketMessageLabs, the utility messaging service, said it is ready for an IPO if and when market conditions improve.…

The Register - Channel: Distribution Biting the hand that feeds IT. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·Bell Micro touts Emulex 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs You've read the headline - it's a 'significant' product, according to Bell Micro, the storage distie, which is making new 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs available in Europe. Compared with the earlier 4Gb/s configurations, the new models offer more headroom to 'consolidate more resources, free up servers and reduce procurement and management costs." And that is good for virtualizing servers.… ·Intel's Hammer of Thor Hammer has picked up Intel's storage and server distribution rights for the Nordic countries. Hammer will run the business through its Stockholm office.… ·Onboarding with Westcon Westcon Convergence, the UK part of networking distie Westcon Group, has introduced an "onboarding" tool to make life easier for resellers. This shoe-horns multiple vendor certification programs and offerings into one place online and a quick way of measuring revenue targets. At least that's what it sounds like: you can read the bumf here.… ·Symantec wins big in UK bootleg software case Essex distie coughs up £700,000Symantec today claimed its biggest win to date in Europe in a software piracy case. The software company received £700,000 in damages and costs from Nusoft Trading Ltd, an Essex, UK distributor of counterfeit Symantec software.… ·Tech Data waves goodbye to (maybe) 80 staff Tech Data pink-slipped 80 people at its Florida headquarters on Tuesday, America's CRN reports. The distie told the channel mag it laid off less than one per cent of its 8,000-strong global workforce, but it's not saying where the axe fell. ®… ·Kyocera print service gig is toner-free heaven for Midwich customers Service revs without the serviceKyocera is tapping into the Midwich reseller base to flog a 'comprehensive managed print service" through the IT channel.… ·Microtronica sticks band-aid on UK ops Scan is The ManHere's a weird thing. The computer components distie Microtronica doesn't want to be a distributor anymore. Not in the UK, at any rate, where it has told PC builders that they must go to Scan Computers, the computer retailer, for their supplies.… ·Westcoast rings up Avenir for convergence emergence The full mobile data shillingWestcoast is teaming up with a b2b telecoms distie called Avenir Telecom, so that it can offer IT resellers the full mobile data shilling.… ·Ingram's second quarter cheers But predicts tough third quarterSuper distie Ingram Micro increased sales to $8.82bn for the quarter ended 28 June 2008 compared to $8.19bn for the same period last year.… ·Weaker sterling knocks back DCC Profits up at tech distribution armDCC, the Irish conglomerate, today said its IT distribution arm, DCC Sercom, achieved underlying double digit operating profit growth. But it warns that weaker sterling could feed through to worse group profits in the second half of the year - the company reports in euros.…

The Register - Channel: System Builder Biting the hand that feeds IT. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·Nvidia ships 90nm, entry-level GeForce 7 GPU No SLI support for 7300 GSNvidia last night extended its GeForce 7 GPU family down into the mainstream market, pitching the 7300 GS at entry-level systems. The 7300 GS is also Nvidia's first 90nm GeForce 7 chip.… ·Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform Targeting enterprise desktops this timeIntel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.… ·Panasonic preps Blu-ray, DVD, CD chip Writes any format... except HD DVDPanasonic will next month begin sampling what it claims is the first optical drive control chipset capable of writing to any recordable or re-writeable disc format. Well, all except HD DVD, that is.… ·Intel's 'Presler' 65nm dual-core chip 'unstable' Glitches found in engineering samples, allegedlyIntel's upcoming 65nm desktop dual-core processor, 'Presler', isn't entirely stable, motherboard-maker moles have alleged.… ·Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS reference card Real overclocking potentialReview The GeForce 6800 GT was a cracker. While Nvidia wowed everybody with the 6800 Ultra, it was the 6800 GT that most people bought, offering most of the bang without quite as much of the buck.… ·Four-GPU SLi rig spied on web Asus R&D team's games machine revealed?Asus has demonstrated a four graphics chips running co-operatively on an SLi-enabled motherboard.… ·S3 turns to Transmeta tech for low-power graphics chips Signs 90nm fab deal with FujitsuS3 Graphics, chip maker VIA's graphics processor subsidiary, has signed Fujitsu to fab the company's products at 90nm, the partners announced today.… ·AMD, IBM to develop 32nm, 22nm chip making tech Official announcement months after details leakedAMD and IBM have extended their chip fabrication process development pact, the two companies confirmed yesterday.… ·Nvidia wrestles desktop graphics lead from ATI Intel ahead of both, almost everywhere elseNvidia has reclaimed the leadership of the desktop graphics chip market from arch-rival ATI, third-quarter figures from market watcher Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reveals.… ·Rising demand powers TSMC's Q3 recovery Sales, income up as utilisation rate nears 100 per centTSMC's revenue and income continued to return to last year's strong levels during its third fiscal quarter, the world's largest chip foundry said last week.…

The Register - Channel: Reseller Biting the hand that feeds IT. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·Big UK resellers confident despite world's gloom ‘Everyone’s a winner, Rodney’Customer demand for virtualisation, security and unified communication technologies has helped large UK resellers outgrow the European IT market over the past year.… ·Steady as she goes at DiData Dimension Data today issued an upbeat interim management statement for the period 1 April to 18 August. 18. The reseller giant experienced “good demandâ€�, achieved gross margin stability, kept a lid on costs and maintained a sold net cash position.… ·Healy vacates top slot at Calyx Maurice Healy has resigned as CEO of Calyx, the Anglo-Irish reseller group he navigated through a €104m MBO last year, ENN.ie reports. His replacement is Tara Brady, who joined the company from Getronics in June as chief operating officer.… ·Integralis shrugs off credit crunch in H1 Integralis, the German-owned, IT security services firm, pumped out a H1 statement today, showing sales up 18.4 per cent to €80.4m (H107: €68m). As it's quoted in Germany, the firm is a little spare with the profit details. But it says operating profit was up 51.1 per cent and it notes a big uplift in cash flow from operating activities to €2.6m. And the biggest order backlog to date.… ·Best Buy helps Apple put an iPhone under every tree First 'independent' US retailerBest Buy next month becomes the first “independentâ€� US retailer to start selling the iPhone, as Apple looks to establish the shiny device as this year’s tickle me Elmo.… ·Duncan McIntyre severs ties with Morse Duncan McIntyre no longer works at Morse, the reseller he ran for 10 years until July 2007. That was when Morse demerged the sexier bit of the group, Monitise plc.… ·Huge write-off takes Insight Enterprises into loss UK back on trackA strong performance from EMEA and APAC helped Insight Enterprises to raise sales nine per cent to $1.4bn in Q2.… ·2e2 rolls up Netstore for UK channel glory Scale model2e2, the private-equity backed reseller group, is buying Netstore for £57m in cash.… ·Recycled PCs despoil developing world The Mail on Sunday has run an expose on secondhand computers tipping up in Ghana, in which the intrepid reporter obtained an NCR PC containing National Health Service patient data. Worse, much worse, is the picture the article paints of PCs being sent to the developing world for supposed recycling, as opposed to re-use. The Mail visits a "toxic pollution dump" in Ghana - and it is truly shocking. So what are UK end-u ... ·Systemax Q2 revs jump 17% Claims strong quarterSystemax shrugged off the credit crunch in Q2, with sales jumping 17 per cent to $758m for the three months ended June 30. The direct marketing IT reseller and PC builder, noted stronger demand in North America and Europe in the quarter and it held gross margins steady at 15.3 per cent.…

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