Year: 2005

  • 2006 Releases Are Channel Minded: Intel Execs

    2006 Releases Are Channel Minded: Intel Execs

    John Hazard

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    Intel Corp.’s release early next month of its next mobile platform, dubbed Napa, and Viiv entertainment computers, present more opportunity for the chipmaker’s channel of system builders and resellers than previous releases, Intel executives and resellers said. Napa and Viiv, offer Intel partners a ready-to-customize platform with opportunity to wrap value-adds and personalization, said Frank… Read more

  • Toshiba Notebooks’ Glory Days Are Over

    Toshiba Notebooks’ Glory Days Are Over

    Pedro Pereira

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    An audible yawn from VARs and integrators was about all Toshiba could muster last week after announcing it is selling a line of sub-$1,000 notebooks through the channel. If the vendor, once the channel’s notebook king, expected VARs and integrators to trip over themselves to get their hands on the machines, it must have been… Read more

  • Microsoft Patches IE

    Microsoft Patches IE

    Paul F. Roberts

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    Microsoft Corp. released software updates in two security bulletins Tuesday, MS05-054 and MS05-055. The updates include fixes for critical new holes in IE, and code to remove a program from Sony BMG that introduced a vulnerability onto customers’ Windows machines, according to Stephen Toulouse, security program manager with Microsoft’s Security Resource Center. The cumulative patch… Read more

  • CRM Becomes More ‘Dynamic’

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    The customer relationship management landscape continued its rapid evolution last week, as vendors rolled out new and updated offerings designed to give enterprises greater control over their customer relationships. Microsoft Corp. announced last week its long-awaited Dynamics CRM 3.0, which brings a hosted capability through partners, rounds out the suite with marketing capabilities, and adds… Read more

  • Synnex, VARStreet Launch E-Commerce Initiative

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Synnex Corp. and VARStreet Inc. are expanding their partnership to market the vendor’s e-commerce platform to the VARs and integrators that source product from the distributor. Synnex, of Fremont, Calif., already has an arrangement with VARStreet, of Santa Clara, Calif., to provide pricing and inventory information to VARs and integrators on the VARSstreet platform.… Read more

  • Avnet Creates “Miniature Channel” for HP VARs and ISVs

    Avnet Creates “Miniature Channel” for HP VARs and ISVs

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Avnet Partner Solutions unveiled this week an extension of its Market Connection program to team ISVs with VARs in vertical and geographic markets. The program focuses on Hewlett-Packard Co. VARs and essentially builds a “miniature channel” of HP VARs—one each in 11 sales regions—for ISVs with solutions in ERP, healthcare, Business Intelligence and IT… Read more