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APC by Schneider Electric, a provider of power and cooling services, has joined AGMA (the Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the gray marketing and counterfeiting of branded goods around the globe. Known for its quality, innovation and industry leading service and support, APC has perhaps the longest […]

A recent IDC study reveals that worldwide revenue from open source software (OSS) will grow at a 22.4 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $8.1 billion (US) by 2013. The IDC forecast, "Worldwide Open Source Software 2009-2013 Forecast", is considerably higher than 2008 for three reasons: the bottom-up list used to calculate the […]

Channel Insider and CompTIA announced Aug. 4 their new partnership to develop and facilitate the Channel Vanguard Council, a new collaborative forum that will provide strategic, actionable guidance to the entire channel community. Channel Insider, the leading source for channel intelligence and analysis, will chair the Channel Vanguard Council, which will comprise invited executives of […]

With the annual value of the managed services opportunity expected to top $60 billion (US) by 2011, and margins as high as 40 percent, according to MSP Partners’ Jim Hamilton, it’s easy to understand why the channel is jumping on the managed services provider (MSP) business model. However, only a small fraction of VARs, just […]

BANGALORE (Reuters) – U.S. business development companies (BDCs) like American Capital Ltd (ACAS.O) and Allied Capital (ALD.N), which lend to small and mid-size businesses, may report yet another dismal quarter hurt by sinking deal volumes and higher credit losses. Total middle-market deal volume was about $410 million in the quarter ended June 30, well below […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc’s board of directors, Apple said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that with Google’s recent unveiling of a computer operating system, "we have mutually decided that now is the right time for […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc plans to include support for business users in its Android operating system as soon as this year, pitting it against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, a senior executive said. Andy Rubin, Google’s top Android executive, said on Friday that as well as expanding consumer features like social networking and […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief executive tried to persuade skeptical investors on Thursday that its 10-year Web search partnership with Yahoo Inc is good for both companies. Shares of Yahoo slumped 12 percent after the long-expected deal was announced on Wednesday, and fell more than 3 percent on Thursday. Microsoft shares rose only slightly, puzzling […]

Although organizations are continuing to drive down their total IT budgets in 2009 from 2008, in 2010 worldwide software budgets will increase, according to a survey by Gartner Inc. The survey showed that organizations plan to increase their software budgets on average 1.53 percent in 2010. In its report dubbed, report "User Survey Analysis: Software […]

(Reuters) – Intel Corp said on Wednesday it no longer expects netbooks to appeal to first-time computer buyers, but sees continued sales of the ultra-portable laptops as a secondary machine or a durable option for kids. "I don’t think first-time buyers are going to buy netbooks," Sean Maloney, Intel’s general manager of sales and marketing, […]

(Reuters) – A Mac security expert has uncovered a technique that hackers could use to take control of Apple Inc computers and steal data that is scrambled to protect it from identity thieves. Prominent Mac researcher Dino Dai Zovi disclosed the software flaw at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, one of the […]

Not a day goes by for me without a conversation about managed services, professional services, cloud computing or software as a service. So Spiceworks’ claim seemed a big incredulous. How could anyone amass such a sizable community—much less the world’s largest—without catching even the slightest bit of attention by any of the established players? I […]