Year: 2005

  • Watson’s Contextual Search Goes Free

    Watson’s Contextual Search Goes Free

    Shelley Solheim

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    Search startup Intellext Inc. today launched a free version of its Watson search tool. Intellext said its search sidebar is different from other tools, such as Google Inc.’s Sidebar, because Watson automatically searches for and generates information relevant to the document the user is currently viewing, such as an e-mail, Web page or Microsoft Word… Read more

  • Integrators Put Their Finger in Socket

    John Moore

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    Socket Communications Inc., which bills itself as a provider of mobile productivity products, is getting a boost from the channel. The company in October launched its Strategic Vertical Integrator Program with a dozen or so partners. At press time, Socket had 63 integrator allies. It’s not stopping there. Peter Phillips, Socket’s vice president of marketing,… Read more

  • Nemx Recruits VARs for E-Mail Security Solution

    Pedro Pereira

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    E-mail security typically has focused on incoming traffic, but regulatory compliance requires that businesses also control information leaving and traveling within their networks. For VARs, integrators and service providers, this more comprehensive approach to e-mail protection translates into new profit opportunities in a fast-growing market, said John Young, president of e-mail security vendor Nemx Software… Read more

  • Microsoft, SAP Weave Apps and Plan for More

    Microsoft, SAP Weave Apps and Plan for More

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    As SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. hammer out the 1.0 version of Mendocino, their combined development project to offer mySAP process functionality in Microsoft Office for a seamless working environment between the two platforms, they’re also pounding out the second iteration. Mendocino 1.0, expected in July of next year, will hone in on four scenarios—budget… Read more

  • SonicWall Grabs Cisco’s DiLullo to Head Sales

    John Hazard

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    Security vendor SonicWall Inc. this week collared John DiLullo, a former channel executive at Cisco Systems Inc., to head its sales as the company looks to steer a broader product line and a more focused channel. SonicWall sought DiLullo, who was Cisco’s former vice president of worldwide distribution, to help the company direct its sales… Read more

  • Channel Loyalty Tectonics Are Shifting

    Channel Loyalty Tectonics Are Shifting

    Pedro Pereira

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    In its efforts to build brand awareness, N-able Technologies Inc. is putting a lot of emphasis on loyalty. But the Ottawa-based managed services platform vendor isn’t vociferously demanding loyalty from its 600-plus channel partners, as one might presume. Rather, N-able is emphasizing its own loyalty to the partners through comprehensive training, joint sales efforts and… Read more