Year: 2008

  • Synnex, HP Expand Lead Generation Programs for IT Solution Providers

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Distributors and large vendors are stepping up their efforts to support solution providers’ business by expanding end-user lead generation programs. At its national conference this week, value-add distributor Synnex announced expanded efforts to deliver more and high-qualified leads to resellers. The idea is that a new customer for solution providers will result in more sales… Read more

  • Nokia Unveils Rival to Apple’s iPhone

    Channel Insider Staff

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    LONDON (Reuters) – Nokia unveiled on Thursday its first touch-screen phone, priced well below Apple’s iPhone model, as the world’s top mobile phone maker hopes to tap consumers for whom the iPhone has been too expensive. Nokia said it would begin selling its 5800 Xpressmusic model shortly, and will price it at 279 euros ($395),… Read more

  • Nokia Security Appliance Sale Signals Marketplace Sea Change

    Lawrence Walsh

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    As the stock markets were crashing earlier this week, a mysterious blip popped on the IT security radar: Nokia was looking to unload its security appliance unit to an undisclosed investment firm. A few media outlets picked up on this obscure report in The Wall Street Journal and little more news has come from it… Read more

  • Lenders Say Credit Still Available for Technology Spending

    Jessica Davis

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    When it comes to credit for technology deals, IT lenders are saying that it is business as usual in spite of the Wall Street financial meltdown and subsequent failed bailout package. Using Credit to Boost Sales: Where Solution Providers Can Go for Help That’s according to Ingram Micro, Tech Data and IBM Global Financing, three… Read more

  • KeyScan Melds Keyboard and Color Scanner into a New Peripheral

    KeyScan Melds Keyboard and Color Scanner into a New Peripheral

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    The typical business is awash in paper. There are invoices, purchase orders, letters, receipts and so on floating around on the typical knowledge worker’s desk, sapping productivity and creating aggravation. Making that paper problem “go away” is the design goal of KeyScan with the KS810 keyboard scanner. At $159, the KS810 offers a multifunction device,… Read more

  • Report: IT Spending Growth Expectations Lower for Second Half

    Jessica Davis

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    IT hardware spending will likely show low single-digit growth for the second half of 2008, lower than original estimates, in the wake of weak corporate earnings and other indicators. That’s according to a report from Bernstein Research Senior Analyst A.M. Sacconaghi Jr., who said while the current consensus expectation is for 7.5 percent IT spending… Read more