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At OpenSource World (formerly LinuxWorld) in San Francisco this week, Todd Finch, Dell senior product marketing manager, decided to set the record straight on return rates for Dell’s Linux-based Inspiron Mini netbooks, writes Gavin Clarke in The Register. Saying Linux return rates were a “non-issue,” Finch is quoted as saying that Microsoft was “making something […]

Steve Ferman is one of the busiest men in managed services. In the past month, he’s changed the name of his backup and storage services company and attained the vaunted MSP Alliance vendor accreditation. In July, Ferman changed the name of his company from CompuVault to eTegrity Systems International, a specialist in two-tier storage and […]

ScanSource POS & Barcoding, an international value-added distributor of automatic identification and data capture and point-of-sale solutions and services and sales unit of ScanSource Inc., has created a comprehensive program, Government Source, designed to educate and assist American resellers with business opportunities in the public sector, including healthcare, education and federal, state and local government. […]

CompTIA has made a major update to its A+ certification exams. The CompTIA A+ Essentials and CompTIA A+ Practical Applications exams have been streamlined, and CompTIA has tightened up the content, said Steven Ostrowski, director of corporate communications at CompTIA. "It’s more related to the jobs that people are doing and the tasks that people […]

Spam accounted for 89 percent of all e-mail messages in July 2009, with image spam making up 17 percent of all spam at one point during the month, according to Symantec’s August 2009 "State of Spam Report." During the month, health spam decreased by 17 percent, while product and 419 spam increased eight and 3 […]

By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) – Global cellphone sales continued to fall in April-June, but at a slower pace than in the previous three months as falling prices boosted demand for advanced smartphones, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. Total cellphone sales fell 6 percent in the second quarter as recession-hit consumers […]

BANGALORE (Reuters) – A U.S. federal court has ordered Microsoft Corp to stop selling some versions of its widely used Word software in the United States in two months, ruling in favor of a small Canadian firm that accused the software giant of violating its patents. A U.S. district court in Texas ruled in favor […]

Nexsan has partnered with FalconStor to build a high-performance, high-efficiency deduplication product called Nexsan DeDupe SG (Speed with Green). The product is a combination of FalconStor’s high-performance deduplication storage and Nexsan’s power- and space-efficient storage, said Bob Woolery, vice president of marketing at Nexsan. Although the hardware is branded Nexsan, FalconStor’s brand is displayed when […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Nokia announced an alliance on Wednesday to bring business software to smartphones to counter the dominance of Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry. The alliance between the world’s largest software company and cellphone maker means the latest versions of Microsoft’s Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and messaging, will be available […]

Acer America is launching a new channel partner program in the U.S. for qualified authorized partners with annual Acer revenue of $100,000 or more. The Acer Channel Excellence (ACE) Program was designed to provide pre- and post-sales support to help channel partners drive revenue for hardware and system integrator VARs. Partners in the program will […]

(Reuters) – Panasonic Corp and NEC Corp unveiled nine new cell phone models on Tuesday that run the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux group LiMo said. The focus of the cell phone market has been shifting to software development since Google Inc and Apple Inc entered the mobile market in the past two years, […]

I’ve wrestled with this topic for a few days: whether or not to write about the appointment of former Oracle channel chief Rauline Ochs to the top spot at Everything Channel’s Institute for Partner Education and Development. Competitors rarely like to write about each other except when something bad or embarrassing happens. In this case, […]