Year: 2010

  • iPhone, Android Use Growing at Work

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Smartphones such as Google Inc’s Android-based devices and Apple Inc’s iPhone are poised to become popular business tools, said an executive at the world’s biggest technology distributor. Increased use of Androids and iPhones for business, as consumers look to simplify their lives with one device for work and play, could hurt Research in… Read more

  • HP Launches Cisco Trade-in Promotion

    Nathan Eddy

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    Technology giant Hewlett-Packard, estimating that nearly $9 billion in Cisco networking equipment is approaching end of life or service in 2011, announced the HP Networking “A Catalyst for Change” Cisco trade-in promotion for qualifying U.S. customers. The program enables clients to upgrade from existing Cisco network gear to open standards-based HP solutions. To help facilitate… Read more

  • Technology Merger and Acquisition Activity Heating Up for 2011

    Channel Insider Staff

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    LONDON (Reuters) – Big-name technology firms will compete to acquire niche software groups in 2011 as part of a growth plan they hope will cater to recession-hit clients clamoring for a wider range of services. Having learned the lessons of the dot-com bubble collapse in 2000, technology companies were quick to cut headcount — their… Read more

  • Financial Firms’ Compliance Requirements Spur Software Sales

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Heavier regulation in financial markets has pushed up compliance costs for wealth and asset managers, helping one software provider bump up sales in one key region by 50 percent this year, a company executive said. Private banks and independent wealth managers need more powerful compliance and risk management software to ensure sales and… Read more

  • Cisco, VMware, EMC Coalition Spurs Rivals

    Chris Talbot

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    Egenera, a provider of converged infrastructure and unified computing solutions, has launched a new partner program designed to be a response to what it sees as issues in the VCE coalition, a data center alliance among vendors VMware, Cisco and EMC to create an end-to-end data center solution. The new program was designed as a… Read more

  • Increased Hiring on the Horizon

    Increased Hiring on the Horizon

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    Increased Hiring on the Horizon Tech departments are getting ready to grow: 6 out of 10 hiring managers and tech recruiters say they expect to increase hiring in the first half of 2011 compared to the previous 6 months. Nearly Half of Companies to Increase Tech Hires by at least 10 percent Among companies with… Read more