Channel Insider Staff

Cisco Systems is planning to revamp its sales structure when its new fiscal year kicks off at the beginning of August. The change includes the forming of a new Strategic Partner Organization, according to reports. A statement issued by Cisco had few details about the changes, and the company was not offering interviews to media. […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will likely report the first annual sales dip in its history as a public company, but investors are looking beyond that for upbeat comments on Windows 7, signs of a tech sector recovery, and even a deal with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Google Inc. The question for investors when the world’s […]

Apple’s complaints that Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter TV ads are unfair and inaccurate is a major victory for Microsoft, which previously couldn’t get a marketing hit against the consumer favorite Mac. Although its still a distant third in market share, Bing has captured the attention of the user community and is now the alternative to Google […]

Lenovo is continuing to build out its server portfolio with the launch of ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers, and the RD210 and RD220 rack servers. Aimed at the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market with up to 5,000 employees, the new ThinkServer products follow on the announcement that Lenovo was entering the server market […]

By Ritsuko Ando NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM sharply raised its full-year earnings forecast as it benefits from focusing more on higher-margin businesses in software and services, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent. The outlook and stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, coming on the heels of Intel’s stellar results this week, may signal that […]

(Reuters) – The popular social networking site Facebook is not doing enough to protect the personal information it gets from subscribers, and it gives users confusing and incomplete information about privacy matters, Canada’s privacy commissioner said on Thursday. "It’s clear that privacy issues are top of mind for Facebook, and yet we found serious privacy […]

(Reuters) – Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site. Twitter has a targeted revenue run rate of $140 million by the end of 2010, with the expectation it would record its first revenue — a modest […]

In its’ latest spam report, McAfee Inc. says corporate marketing departments could learn a thing or two on how to better target customers. And governments around the world could improve their national and international business prospects by aggressively combating illegal Internet activities, but don’t hold your breath. Spammers understand their "customers," regardless of the country […]

We’ve lived through the disastrous, albeit brief, string of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld commercials–advertisements that were truly about nothing. We watched as Microsoft desperately tried to fend off the damning Apple “Mac vs. PC” commercials with the “I’m a PC” spot, which many people responded, “I don’t care.” And we’ve watched Megan and San […]

At a recent press event, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said the networking giant wasn’t looking to undercut the existing server market leaders–Hewlett-Packard and IBM–with its forthcoming virtualized blade servers and Unified Computing System strategy. Rather, Warrior said UCS was about building better, next-generation data centers. Obviously a “next-generation data center” will mean displacing the existing […]

Ingram Micro is making an all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) solution tailored for retailers available to its reseller customers in the U.S.. The SecurePOS SMB Bundle provides retailers with end-to-end data encryption of cardholder information that begins when the customer swipes a credit card. Available now through the Data Capture/POS Division now, the bundle includes technologies like […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp warned that cybercriminals have attacked users of its Office software for Windows PCs, exploiting a programing flaw that the software giant has yet to repair. The world’s largest software maker issued the warning on Tuesday as it released patches to address nine other security holes in its software. "Despite today’s fixes, […]