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Ex-Systemax veep charged with $230m fraud

Carl Fiorentino bailed for $1m over wire, mail and laundering scams
Paul Kunert, 19 Jun 11:24

PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what?

Upgrade is no 'miracle', sniffs IT analyst
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Paul Kunert, 19 Jun 08:59

Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme

Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is
Iain Thomson, 19 Jun 00:10

HP PCs 'n' printers boss steps down, replaced by Brit

Just check that seat to see if it can be dropped into a furnace
Paul Kunert, 18 Jun 15:53

Brit biz-gobbling comms giant Daisy Group splutters with indigestion

Can't... possibly... eat... any more... ah, yes it can with £200m spending pot
Paul Kunert, 18 Jun 15:25

CLOUD TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR CASH: Govts around world slash IT spending

Survey: Bring your own device, because we sure as hell won't buy you one
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Jasper Hamill, 18 Jun 14:27
What the Tianhe-2 super should look like in its final home

HPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops

ISC 2013 The plain vanilla server racket may have struggled in the first quarter, but sales of machinery aimed at high performance computing workloads -both traditional simulation workloads and new-fangled "Big Data" jobs - bucked the downward trends in the first quarter, according to the latest research from IDC.
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Quadrant Visual Solutions goes into liquidation

Quadrant Visual Solutions (QVS) has shut up shop after 25 years in business, having succumbed to the oldest business-killer of all: it ran out of cash.

Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle

Surface slab sales latest: Will no one rid Ballmer of these turbulent tabs?
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G-Cloud overlord McDonagh gets CBE nod from Queen

'How long have you worked here? What do you do? Have a medal'
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Google Chromebooks now in over 6,600 stores

Google has launched a major retail push for laptops running its web-based Chrome OS, with Chromebooks now available in more than 6,600 stores worldwide.

Icahn scratching head over BEEELLLIONS needed for Dell deal

Carl Icahn could be ready to walk away from the Dell rescue deal after reports suggested he's finding stumping up the cash for the refinancing plan a little more difficult than he'd hoped.

Major Brit IT provider denies turning to fellow resellers after burning up lines of credit

Mutterings tell of another refinance for Azzurri
Paul Kunert, 17 Jun 13:41

Bone up on fresh EU privacy law - or end up in the clink, IT biz warned

McAfee Channel Summit Resellers no longer just flogging boxes - now they must offer legal advice
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HP sacks English employees to bag Scots gov jobs cash

My taxes went to Scotland and all I got was this lousy P45
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Paul Kunert, 17 Jun 09:29

Don't wait to check your parachute until you're out of the plane

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Eddie Pacey, 17 Jun 07:33

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux
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Simon Sharwood, 17 Jun 00:48

Symantec sharpens axe as 1,700 awarded the Order of the Boot - report

Bennett follows through with middle-management cull promise
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John Leyden, 14 Jun 15:56

Former QiComm CEO cleared in money-laundering case

Too late to save the business, though
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Paul Kunert, 14 Jun 14:56

McAfee: Not all partners are cut out to be SaaS providers

McAfee Channel Summit EMEA boss reckons there's some cloud confusion going around

CRINGE! Home Office wants to know whether your boss BEATS YOU

Skeeved-out staffers: No, I said we flog BOXES...
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Paul Kunert, 14 Jun 10:28

Microsoft to open Windows Stores inside 600 Best Buy locations

Product showcases 'must be seen to be believed'
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Neil McAllister, 13 Jun 20:23

Months and months on, tech floggers still waiting to feel Microsoft's tool

Resellers were RIGHT to be sceptical about rebate utility
Paul Kunert, 13 Jun 16:16

Violin Memory shuffles out 'half-price' PCIe flash cards to eager tech channel

Blocks and Files Channel players hope for blooming biz under Rose
Chris Mellor, 13 Jun 15:04

IBM's $1bn layoffs latest: Now axe swings in US, Canada - reports

Union claims 121 storage bods canned after dismal sales
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NetApp clambers over stumbling Big Blue as storage market shrinks

IDC numbers show giants jockeying for 2nd and 3rd place
Chris Mellor, 13 Jun 09:05
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Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu

Security researchers are complaining about collateral damage from the latest botnet take-down efforts by Microsoft and its partners.
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HMRC ordered to cough up compo for winding-up petition, says Enta

Enta Technologies has claimed that a judgment given at the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ) last week ordered HMRC to compensate it over a gaffe related to a winding-up petition.
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Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard

Digital Compaq HP has announced the end of support for various flavours of OpenVMS, the ancient but trustworthy server operating system whose creator went on to build Windows NT.

Trustmarque completes £43m MBO

Management at Trustmarque Solutions (TMS) have completed a buy-out of the business for £43m with the financial backing of mid-market private equity specialist Dunedin.

Opinion

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune

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