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Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, expected to ship later this year, is already being heralded as the potential savior of the (economically challenged) IT business. It could do something else, ho Read More

No doubt open-source proponents are rejoicing over this news: The British government has decided to increase its use of open-source software in the public services field. It will be adopted over Read More

Nothing gets the high-tech industry more agitated that the word "antitrust." So the reports ricocheting around the blogosphere about Google coming into the Obama Administration's legal sights are Read More

Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) reported earnings for its fourth quarter and 2008 fiscal year Read More

As if Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system release doesn't have the tech industry and channel buzzed enough, he's a new issue to worry about: Netbooks.I Read More

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The Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona this week and both vendor and service provider executives are having to adjust to the realities of an economic slowdown. Mobility has been Read More

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You want real open source? Head south to Havana. The Cuban government -- the one that's outlasted 10 U.S. presidents and a 50-year American boycott -- has launched a new operating system cal Read More

A top executive with distributor Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) believes there are still "pockets of opportunity" in th Read More

Cloud computing has been receiving its share of attention on this web site and many others as vendors and channel partners adjust their busines plans to get under the cloud. Now there's a sign th Read More

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Asus, the manufacturer that carved out the worldwide netbook market, is the latest vendor to get more serious about the increasingly crowded smartphone field. Vendor announcements are popping up like Read More

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Despite the worsening economic downturn (or perhaps more accurately, as a convenient excuse to capitalize on it), U.S. corporations are continuing to ship thousands of IT jobs offshore. M Read More

It seems to me the smartphone sweepstakes are getting a bit crowded. Just a few days ago, Acer revealed plans  to announce its entry into the market. Now the Wall Street Journal has set the blogo Read More

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Everyone knows Google has big plans for the cloud (including an important role for the channel), but now the company sounds like its planning something really big: Launching a service that would Read More

Here's news that should really get the open-source community flapping: President Barack Obama is supposedly studying the benefits that open source might bring to the U.S. government. According to this Read More

Channel networking giant Cisco is supposedly preparing to enter the $50 billion server market, which would greatly round out its product strategy and propel it into new competition with vendors such a Read More

One of the interesting facts lost in the debate following Google's recent decision to launch a  Read More

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has launched a worldwide channel partner program for the more r Read More

VARs will be able to provide a new open-source, unified communications (UC) solution to the SMB market as a result of an ag Read More

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Good news for Apple resellers used to seeing Macintoshes exalted in the education, graphic design and publishing markets but rejected in many others: The Mac is at last making inroads into the enterpr Read More

Cisco used the Consumer Electronics Show this week as a launching pad for a new c Read More

American companies may finally be reassessing their need to outsource to India, a step that I believe is long overdue. Last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai caused some firms to think twice ab Read More

With a recovery in IT spending at least a year away, channel partners should emphasize solutions that help businesses operate more efficiently, according Read More

There's a awful lot of confusing debate about just how the economy will play out this year, and I don't believe the economic pundits are going to be any better predicti Read More