Channel Insider Staff

Channel Insider today announced the first set of winners for its annual Bull’s Eye Awards. The first group is managed service providers and the vendors that support them. Each category has three award levels: Champion, Contender and Challenger. CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a leadership position today, but exhibits admirable qualities […]

(Reuters) – Global shipments of personal computers bounced back in the third quarter of 2009, a sign that information technology spending will pick up in the coming months, a research group reported on Wednesday. Back-to-school demand helped shipments to rise 2.3 percent after falling for three consecutive quarters, according to research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly […]

It’s strange and almost silly to think of putting Microsoft on a death watch, but chatter is increasingly rising about the steady decline and dimming future for the world’s largest and most successful software company. Just a couple of years ago Microsoft seemed an invincible force, yet an increasing number of pundits and solution providers […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc on Monday said strong demand for its new iMac personal computer had it working hard to keep up, and the company apologized for any delays in deliveries to customers. The new 27-inch iMac starts at $1,699. According to Apple’s online store, the desktop PC ships in 2 weeks. By contrast, the […]

We’ve nearly completed judging for the inaugural Channel Insider Bull’s Eye Awards. We were scheduled to start announcing the award winners last week, but our judging panel was simply overwhelmed by the volume and quality of the nearly 500 nominations we received. Rather than announcing all of the award winners at once, we will make […]

Sun Microsystems is discontinuing its radical “try and buy” program, through which it was handing over hardware from across its portfolios to end users for 60-day trials. The program is unique in that the user got brand-new equipment ranging from the Sun Ultra 27 Workstation (MSRP $2,914) to the SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server (MSRP $89,895), […]

(Reuters) – EU regulators signaled they could clear Oracle Corp’s $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc, after the U.S. software company promised measures to ease competition concerns. The European Union’s executive European Commission said it was optimistic a "satisfactory outcome" was possible. It had previously objected to the deal, citing possible competition constraints on […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc is preparing to launch a tablet personal computer in late March or April, with manufacturer partners poised to roll out as many as 1 million units per month, according to an Oppenheimer research note. The highly anticipated tablet is expected to pitch Apple into the digital book market popularized […]

The 2010 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is heading to the nation’s capital. The Washington Convention and Sports Authority announced this morning that it secured the annual gathering of more than 10,000 Microsoft reseller and independent software vendors. In a statement, Elliott Ferguson, president and CEO of Destination DC, said: "This is a huge win for […]

Ever find a discrepancy on your landline or cell phone bill? Most of us have. So imagine the cost to businesses that rely on telephony. On average, billing errors among carriers run between 5 percent and 8 percent. For enterprises that spend more than $20 million a year on telephony, errors amount to more than […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license […]

(Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O) has scrapped plans to launch an advanced graphics chip based on its novel Larrabee design, after concluding that delays in the project would make it uncompetitive, a spokesman said on Sunday. The move is a setback to Intel’s plans to compete with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc […]