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Avnet CIO Steve Phillips offers three things to consider before any large company embraces social media tools like Facebook & Twitter. [Source: Avnet On Demand / 07-30]

Distribution giants enjoys healthy sales growth as profits more than double Distribution giant Ingram Micro has reported a triple-digit increase in profits and a 27 per cent rise in year-on-year sales during... [Source: VNU / 07-30]

Japan's industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent in June from a month earlier when it rose 0.1 percent, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ( METI) said in a preliminary report on Friday. The ministry attributed the drop to a softening... [Source: People's Daily Online / 07-30]

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Channel Recap - ChannelWeb - Greg Spierkel said he's had meetings with most of Ingram Micro's top 10 vendors over the last few weeks, and he's been in Asia and Europe, and the consensus is that supply chain constraints are all but over. [Source: Channel Recap / 07-30]

Channel Recap - The Register - Turner promises great story FAM The beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 will hit in September. [Source: Channel Recap / 07-30]

Channel Recap - IT Business - The value-added distributor had had a big year with Oracle/Sun, adding Cisco, and acquiring Bell Micro and Tallard. Now, it has its head in the cloud [Source: Channel Recap / 07-30]

Channel Recap - IT Business - Cisco tells Avnet partners it needs them to make its network-cenric data centre vision a reality [Source: Channel Recap / 07-30]

Channel Recap - IT Business - Oracle says it needs the channel but would rather go direct [Source: Channel Recap / 07-30]

InfoQ - As reported last week, Oracle reacted swiftly to the issues involving the rebranding of the Java 6u21 update. Since then, Oracle have re-spun the Java install, and for Windows machines, the released build is now 1.6.0_21-b07. Oracle should be commended... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 07-30]

Electronics Digest - EETimes - Sales are surging across the electronics industry, further lifting already strong profit margins and boosting cash piles throughout the sector yet a deep sense of unease continues to plague OEMs, semiconductor vendors and third-party... [Source: Electronics Digest / 07-30]

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HTC expects its smartphone shipments to reach 6.5 million units in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 132% from a year earlier, while revenues will grow 15.7% sequentially and 106% on year to NT$70 billion (US$218.8 million) in the same period. Shipments... [Source: DigiTimes / 07-30]

Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager (OPSM) has been featured in a number articles in leading pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology trade publications since this exciting solution was announced Monday, July 26 th .   Managing Automation's Jeff Moad... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-30]

Texas A&M is one of the early adopters of Oracle WebCenter. Here is a brief interview with Sreeja Sreekumaran, the technical lead on the project. Can you say a few words about yourself? I am Sreeja Sreekumaran , the technical lead of Epik-Maestro, an integrated... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-30]

Verizon today issued its annual Data Breach Investigation Report, timed for the opening day of the giant Black Hat cybersecurity convention in ... [Source: USATODAY.com Tech / 07-30]

A new tool tracks the speed at which cloud services from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com run, and then displays their worldwide performance. [Source: New York Times: Technology / 07-30]

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew 13 percent year-over-year, to reach 308 million units in Q2 2010. Among the top five brands, RIM and Samsung outgrew their major rivals, due to robust demand for QWERTY... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

The HP (NYSE:HPQ) board of directors has declared a regular cash dividend of 8 cents per share on the company's common stock. The dividend, the fourth in HP's fiscal year 2010, is payable on Oct. 6, 2010, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Total revenues were $186.1 million, a 13.3% increase compared to the prior year's second quarter revenue of $164.3 million, while license revenues grew 25.1%... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

Intermec, Inc. (NYSE: IN) today announced financial results for its second quarter, which ended June 27, 2010. Second quarter 2010 revenues were $161.2 million and a net loss of ($2.7) million, or ($0.04) per diluted share, compared to 2009 second quarter revenues... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Second Quarter 2010 Financial Highlights: Non-GAAP and GAAP revenue was $495 million and $489 million, respectively. Non-GAAP revenue was a second quarter record... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned tenCube, the provider of the WaveSecure mobile security service. Adding WaveSecure's locate, lock, back-up and wipe technology to Trust Digital's... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Surgient, Inc., a provider of private cloud automation software. The Austin, Texas-based company's Surgient Platform enables organizations... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

Verio and Arrow ECS Sign North American Distribution Agreement [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) chairman and chief executive officer Bob Beauchamp will speak about the Company at 10:30am Eastern Time, August 10, 2010 at the Oppenheimer & Company Annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference. The conference will be held... [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

CDW's IT Monitor reveals stronger IT budget expectations over the next six months and a renewed confidence in the IT job market for the first time in 2010. [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

HiBeam Internet & Voice Selects Tellabs Smart Mobile Internet for WiMAX; Tellabs(R) SmartCore(tm) 9100 platform provides HiBeam with an open network architecture and industry leading performance. [Source: Business Wire / 07-30]

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. The acquisition was completed via a short-form merger under Delaware law pursuant to which Sheffield Acquisition Corp., an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - IDC - International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that server hardware revenue for public cloud computing will grow to $718 million in 2014 while server revenue for the larger private cloud market will grow to $5.7 billion in 2014.... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) announced that it has made impressive strides in meeting its corporate social responsibility goals in the area of corporate ethics, community relations projects, and environmental sustainability. Teradata's successes have been de [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-30]

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor, today announced double-digit increases in sales and triple-digit increases in profits for the second quarter ended July 3, 2010. Worldwide sales for the second quarter tota [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-30]

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) today announced that the Samsung Intensity II is available online today and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in the coming weeks.  Made partly from r [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-30]

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced its selection as one of AT&T's Domain Suppliers for IP/MPLS/Ethernet/Evolved Packet Core equipment. The domain award includes Alcatel-Lucent's entire IP/MPLS/Ethernet/Evolved Packet [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-30]

Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla. [Source: CNET News.com / 07-30]

Big Blue acquires privately held company and its technology for compressing data in real-time and making it available to analytics apps. [Source: CNET News.com / 07-30]

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host of tablet computers running Windows 7, to compete with Apple's fast-selling iPad. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 07-30]

It's a pretty good time to be Microsoft -- but the company still has a lot to prove. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 07-30]

McAfee (MFE) in late trading announced Q2 revenue of $495 million, below the Street consensus at $507.4 million,‚  but with profits of 63 cents a share, beating the Street by three cents a share. For Q3, the security software company sees revenue of $505 million... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 07-30]

The Street is putting the hurt on Symantec (SYMC) shares. The security and storage software company late yesterday reported mixed results for the fiscal first quarter ended July 2, with in line profits but light revenues. More disappointingly, FY Q2 guidance was... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 07-30]

Citrix Systems (CTXS) shares are sharply higher today after the company's solid Q2 results and strong Q3 and full year outlook, triggering a flurry of Wall Street upgrades. In particular, the company reported solid interest in its desktop virtualization software.... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 07-30]

Logitech (LOGI), maker of remote controls and computer peripheral products, posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30. For the quarter, the company reported revenue of $479 million and profits of 11 cents a share, well ahead... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 07-30]

The record books are being rewritten as distributors report financials in a market still steaming ahead. Arrow Electronics is the latest on the podium posting all-time high second quarter revenues... [Source: DistiBlog / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - With today's update to the XenDesktop 4 Platinum edition suite, Citrix became the first vendor to meet all requirements in the Burton Group Server Hosted Virtual Desktop evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria was developed... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Oracle's AppCast - RedDOT is a 100% employee owned business with sales revenues in the 100 million dollar range. They use Oracle E-Business Suite to manage their Financials, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Sales and Suppliers. One of the interesting... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Oracle's AppCast - Leviton Manufacturing is a global manufacturer of electrical wiring devices, data center connectivity solutions, and lighting energy mgmt systems. It's portfolio consists of more than 25,000 devices and systems used in homes,... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Forrester - CIO - Whether you are a CEO, CIO, IT employee, or working outside of IT, you have some level of understanding of your organization's strategy. At least that's what I believe. But how much do you understand? To find out we're conducting... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Forrester - EA - One of my current research projects is to define how EA teams capture and express business strategy. Early in the process I am finding a lot of variation in how organizations articulate strategy. In my preliminary interviews I... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Rich Murnane - A unique opportunity came my way this morning when I had to poke around in a MySQL database we have here in our shop (which came with a tool we use).I've poked around via command line and used the MySQL workbench before but I thought... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - NetApp - NetApp Support of Intel Adapter Gives Customers More Options to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - I spent some time this week looking at SAP's results, so I thought I'd share some thoughts here too. Thanks to my colleague john Rizzuto for his input. SAP is showing modest acceleration off the bottom. The worst is seemingly... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Oracle - Leupold & Stevens Benefits from a Clearer View of Business Operations with the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Jibe Consulting Assists Sports Optics Manufacturer with Complete IT Infrastructure Overhaul... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Oracle - Dell and HP to Certify and Resell all Three Oracle Operating Systems - Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM - on their x86 Server Computers [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - The relationship between the CIO and the Board of Directors is fraught with risk and misunderstanding.‚  While many CIOs have presented to the Board of Directors, these interactions are can be problematic. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 07-30]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow Asia - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), announced that it will join Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) to host Technology Roadshow 2010 in 15 cities in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and India, from August through November of 2010. [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 07-30]

DistributionDaily.net - Avnet Blog: The Soft Pitch - On May 20, 2010, employees from Avnet's Chicago facility lost a great friend and coworker: Pat Lyons, an account manager for Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) Americas. Pat spent more than 20 years serving the... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 07-30]

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], announced its strategic alliance with IBM to distribute IBM System x in the Belgium and Luxembourg (Belux) markets. [Source: Arrow Electronics, Inc. / 07-30]

The five-minute halt in Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday highlighted a flaw in how NYSE Amex executes orders it can't fill on its book at the best price. [Source: Business Week Investing / 07-30]

In a recent survey by Evans Data , Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud. But what do developers want the most? They want the cloud to be simple to use. They want it to be as as easy to get your... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 07-30]

MobileCrunch reports that Research in Motion has purchased the domain name blackpad.com , fueling speculation that RIM's long rumored enterprise tablet will be called the BlackPad. Others suggest it is merely a codename. One commenter at MobileCrunch notes the... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 07-30]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - What can people in business learn from studying the ways successful designers solve problems and innovate? On the most basic level, they can learn to question, care, connect, and commit - four of the most important things... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 07-30]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Unlike traditional reviews and other types of feedback, 360-degree reviews include input from a comprehensive set of people: peers, managers, direct reports, and sometimes customers. One of the most valuable aspects of this... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 07-30]

Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites. [Source: physorg.com / 07-30]

After the release of Safari 5 last month, Thursday, July 28th, Apple introduced a smoother, more efficient version, deeming it Safari 5.0.1. [Source: physorg.com / 07-30]

Trying out an Android phone from Verizon is quickly becoming the same old song, but it's a genuine classic that never gets dull. This time it's the Droid X, released July 15, from Motorola, which has built a beautiful beast of a smart phone screaming with speed,... [Source: physorg.com / 07-30]

Microsoft - which foresaw the tablet PC, but failed to commercialize it - has a lot to prove in the market currently dominated by Apple's (AAPL) iPad, and every intention of proving it. Bringing a Windows-based slates to market is job one urgency around here,... [Source: Digital Daily / 07-30]

The U.S. Department of Justice today said it is indeed suing Oracle for contract fraud, confirming June reports that it had accused the company of defrauding the United States government of hundreds of millions of dollars. [Source: Digital Daily / 07-30]

Motorola's decision to double down on Google's Android operating system was clearly a wise one. Though the company's mobile-phone unit reported an operating loss for its second quarter it shipped 2.7 million smartphones, up from 2.3 million in the quarter prior... [Source: Digital Daily / 07-30]

ChannelWeb research shows the big got bigger during the recession, while the chasing pack of specialists endured sales and profit declines Research by ChannelWeb has revealed the UK's biggest distributors began... [Source: VNU / 07-29]

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MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it is showcasing the finalists of its recent customer dashboard competition on its website at http://www.microstra [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-29]

IBM Poland (NYSE: IBM)  and the Wroclaw University of Technology today announced an agreement to establish the first university cloud computing center in Poland. As part of the partnership, the Wroclaw University of Technolog [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 07-29]

Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp. The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than three... [Source: PR-Inside - Computer/Tech / 07-29]

As someone who's made his fortune selling commercial business software, Bernard Liautaud is surprisingly enthusiastic about taking the opposite approach -- giving it away. Liautaud, one of Europe's most renowned tech executives, is betting big on open-source software.... [Source: Investors Business Daily / 07-29]

Channel Recap - Network World - Apple Tuesday released the second beta version of its iOS 4.1 firmware update. Developers are under NDA on many details but early online reports suggest that dropped calls due to flakey proximity sensors may be fixed, and HSUPA data... [Source: Channel Recap / 07-29]

Channel Recap - The VAR Guy - The VAR Guy knows Avnet Technology Solutions works closely with a range of IT vendors. But which solutions providers work most closely with Avnet? And which of those channel partners are generating the most success? Here's a quick... [Source: Channel Recap / 07-29]

SOA World - In the wake of IBM's zEnterprise announcement I've seen and heard many different reactions from the ho hum to the why would anyone buy this ends of the spectrum. Those extremes miss the point, as extremes often do. From my perspective, the point is... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 07-29]

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Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously. [Source: Wired News / 07-29]

The Global Technology Distribution Council today announced that the IT industry recovery continues to gain strength, led by substantially stronger U.S. market sales and increased stabilization in Europe. Second-quarter U.S. hardware revenue increased sequentially... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 07-29]

The R12.ATG_PF.B.Delta.3 patch (8919491) recently got released to Oracle Metalink. I wish to take the opportunity to highlight the major changes in Enterprise Search area, which are included in this patch. Advanced Results Display Option in Enterprise Search Toolbar... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-29]

We released Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g .  This is the first Oracle branded release of the directory formerly known as the Sun/iPlanet/Netscape Directory. This release also coincided with the release of other key Oracle 11g Identity Management... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-29]

This year, we're offering a chance to win a free conference pass to Oracle OpenWorld as your reward for sharing documents. Creating a document to share in My Oracle Support Community enters you in the drawing and the information you share will help other members... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-29]

Apple sued companies it said are selling unauthorized accessories such as chargers, speakers and cables for the iPod, iPhone and iPad. [Source: USATODAY.com Tech / 07-29]

Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2011. Sales for Q1 FY 2011 were $479 million, up 47 percent from $326 million in the same quarter last year. Excluding the unfavorable impact... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creator of Snort(R) and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2010. With another strong quarter, our top line for the first half of 2010... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. FINANCIAL RESULTS In the second quarter of fiscal 2010, Citrix achieved revenue of $458 million, compared to $393 million in the second quarter of fiscal... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced its fiscal 2011 first quarter results, showing very strong growth in total bookings and ESM license bookings. Both metrics are primary leading indicators of customer adoption and market growth. Fiscal 2011 first quarter... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Dell today announced a comprehensive security solution portfolio for midsized businesses and organizations that integrates industry leading technology, products, security management tools and services to help customers protect their IT infrastructure and most precious... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Symplified centralizes identity management and user provisioning across on-premises and cloud user stores, and transforms Google Apps and Salesforce.com into a cloud directory service. [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Citrix Systems, Inc., HP and Intel welcome new sponsor GTSI for the third annual Power IT Down Day on Friday, August 27, 2010. Power IT Down Day encourages civilian agencies and military, and the industries that serve them, to power down their computers, printers,... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Tech Data Corporation opened the Healthcare IT Pavilion, a simulated doctor's office within the distributor's 6,000-square-foot technology solutions center. [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Tech Data continues to expand its EHR and medical practice management software portfolio to create one of the channel's broadest healthcare IT solutions offerings [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced it has committed technology equipment and support to the nonprofit organization Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and its fleet of Mobile Service Offices (MSOs) that operate on the front line of benefit outreach efforts for veterans.... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that Purdue University is using the container-based HP Performance-optimized Data Center (POD) to expand and speed its ability to deliver research projects. Known for its world-leading research in nanotechnology, structural biology... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

Marking yet another category-defining innovation for telepresence, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM) and McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced a framework for a global strategic alliance to jointly develop and deliver Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]

RSA(R) Conference (www.rsaconference.com), the world's leading information security conference and exposition, today released the results of its recent survey of security professionals regarding issues like cloud computing, mobile devices and social networking.... [Source: Business Wire / 07-29]