Year: 2007

  • CDW-G Signs Deal for School Safety

    Sara Driscoll

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    CDW-G has signed a strategic partnership with Web filtering vendor 8e6 to help prevent children as young as 12 from bypassing security and Web filtering appliances in schools using proxy servers. CDW-G, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW that sells to the government and education market, will now offer schools in the K-12 sector three… Read more

  • Dell, Toshiba Offering Tablet PCs

    Dell, Toshiba Offering Tablet PCs

    Scott Ferguson

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    Dell and Toshiba are each bringing tablet PCs into the enterprise market this week, with both vendors offering their users touch-screen capabilities with the new models. The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC marks the first time the OEM has offered its own tablet PC for customers. Before this model rolled out Dec. 11, Dell had… Read more

  • Cisco Delivers Scalable UC for SMBs

    Cisco Delivers Scalable UC for SMBs

    Andrew Garcia

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    Now with support for more users, Cisco’s Smart Business Communications System is an attractive option for most small companies looking to move to a next-generation communications platform that’s future-proofed for applications beyond voice—particularly for companies looking to increase user mobility via voice over wireless. The SBCS is intended to be delivered through and managed by… Read more

  • Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters

    Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters

    Brian Prince

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    Microsoft is once again after resellers hawking counterfeit Microsoft goods worldwide. In the past several weeks, the software giant has filed 52 lawsuits against resellers who allegedly sold counterfeit Microsoft software on various online markets. Fifteen of the 52 lawsuits involved software traced to a Chinese counterfeiting syndicate, broken up earlier this year by Chinese… Read more

  • CompUSA to Close All 103 Stores

    CompUSA to Close All 103 Stores

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    CompUSA will close or sell all of its retail outlets and TechPro services business, the retailer and its new owner, Gordon Brothers investment bank, announced Dec. 10. Gordon Brothers, which acquired the retailer Dec. 7, said the store’s 103 locations will remain open through the holiday season but offered no further details on the closing… Read more

  • Consolidation: The Wave Continues

    Lawrence Walsh

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    About a year ago, Logicalis chairman Mike Cox made a bold prediction: The North America channel will consolidate within the next five years to a handful of mega-VARs and a few hundred (that’s hundreds, not thousands) smaller local and regional VARs. Cox should know about consolidation, since Logicalis—a $900 million global solution provider—is an aggressive… Read more