Year: 2009

  • Apple Earnings Soar on Mac Sales, Profits Hit Record

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s profits and sales streaked past Wall Street forecasts as iPhone and Mac sales hit quarterly records, sending its shares rocketing to all-time highs on Monday. Sales of Mac computers — the largest single contributor to Apple’s revenue — jumped a better-than-foreseen 17 percent, but shipments of the closely watched iPhone were… Read more

  • Cisco Overhauls Router Family, Touts $10 Billion Market

    Carolyn April

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    Cisco on Tuesday overhauled its Integrated Services Routers (ISR G2) family for the first time since the flagship products were launched five years ago. The second-generation routers have been rearchitected to address the network demands associated with the expansion of video and on-demand computing services, as well as the increase in branch offices. For channel… Read more

  • IT Was the Worst of Times: Gartner Says 2009 IT Spending Worst Ever

    Jessica Davis

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    It was the worst of times. Gartner says that IT spending experienced its worst year ever in 2009—worse even than in 2001—on pace to decline 5.2 percent for the year. And in the enterprise space specifically, things were even tougher with a decline in IT spending of 6.9 percent. But Gartner says the IT industry… Read more

  • ConnectWise Masters Community Building

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Since the end of summer, solution providers and vendors have complained to me about how packed the fall schedule is with channel events. On average, there’s one or two major channel events each week through the end of the year, and the first week of November will be among the busiest as three conferences–Symantec, HTG… Read more

  • IBM Global Financing Offers Credit Deals

    Jessica Davis

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    IBM Global Financing has expanded its credit offers with a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for IBM software purchases—an offer that comes just as overall credit markets may be starting to free up again. The financing arm of technology giant IBM says that the 90-day payment deferment is available on eligible… Read more

  • Windows Start to Seven

    Windows Start to Seven

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Windows Start to Seven   No Title Under pressure to compete against Apple’s Mac GUI, Microsoft developed and released Windows 1.0. It wasn’t a true operating system, but rather a navigation extension to MS-DOS. Version 2.0 was slightly more palatable to users, which caused Apple to sue for patent infringement. The market didn’t accept the… Read more