The VAR Guy's Top 10 Stories for 2014
The end is nigh—the end of 2014, that is. And while we're excited for the coming new year, we're shedding a small tear for the year that was. Here's a list of the top 10 most read stories on The VAR Guy in 2014.
December 31, 2014
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The end is nigh—the end of 2014, that is. And while we’re excited for the coming new year, we’re shedding a small tear for the year that was. Here’s a list of the top 10 most read stories on The VAR Guy in 2014.
In mid-June, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced its plan to build a revolutionary new type of computer called The Machine, designed to run an open source operating system developed in universities, as well as Linux and Android. It also features memristors, non-volatile memory that could store a data center’s worth of information on a single computer or phone using virtually no power, according to HP.
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Amid seven straight quarters of declining revenues, in February the axe fell on IBM’s (IBM) employee ranks, with as many as 15,000 workers expected to be laid off worldwide.
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Apple’s (AAPL) much-anticipated iPhone 6 hit the shelves in September, but the excitement leading up to the event was downright palpable. Speculation was rampant over new features, functionality and even size. So when Apple set the iPhone 6’s debut date, it made headlines.
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Chromebooks seemingly won the popularity contest, with a host of new, more powerful models slated to hit the market in 2014. While they were positioned as specialty market items, they became a low-cost answer to one blogger’s HP laptop meltdown.
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After spending months looking for a buyer for its semiconductor chip business, in February IBM (IBM) did an about-face and instead pursued a joint-venture partnership. That strategy, however, didn’t work: IBM unloaded its chip manufacturing outfit to Globalfoundries in October.
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IBM (IBM) wasn’t the only tech company affected by layoffs. In January, Dell denied a report that it plans to lay off up to 9,000 employees worldwide. There were, of course, layoffs, totaling about 6,000 in sales, marketing and engineeering.
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Coming on the heels of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface 3 announcement in May, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) fired back with a cadre of new 2-in-1 notebooks and Chromebooks, including a new notebook powered by Android.
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NetApp (NTAP) gave its unified storage system portfolio a major makeover with the release of the FAS2500 series for entry-level users and the high-performance FAS8080 EX, designed for enterprise users with advanced storage needs.
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Ahead of its Surface Pro 3 shipment date Microsoft (MSFT) in June cut prices on its Surface Pro 2 models and giving users turning in their old Apple (AAPL) MacBook Air notebooks up to $650 in store credit toward the purchase of its new tablet.
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Ahead of its Surface Pro 3 shipment date Microsoft (MSFT) in June cut prices on its Surface Pro 2 models and giving users turning in their old Apple (AAPL) MacBook Air notebooks up to $650 in store credit toward the purchase of its new tablet.
Read the story here.
The end is nigh—the end of 2014, that is. And while we're excited for the coming new year, we're shedding a small tear for the year that was. Here's a list of the top 10 most read stories on The VAR Guy in 2014.
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