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Whether it’s the price of real estate in Manhattan or engineers trying to squeeze another year out of an oil well in Alaska, these seven verticals are driving opportunity for VARs that can reduce their power and cooling needs.

FRANKFURT – OTE, Greece’s largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom, may sue Siemens for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. OTE has contacted lawyers in Germany and Greece to examine and prepare all necessary steps, which include a claim for damages, the paper said in a preview of an […]

CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) – Microsoft and Yahoo seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other. That’s turned speculation over what it will take to get the two of them together into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is "mystified" the […]

Don’t worry, Americans: You will be counted as part of the 2010 U.S. census—just not as efficiently as planned, thanks to the meltdown of a major mobile computing implementation that was supposed to bring the huge data-collection project into the wireless age. The goal was to make participating in the census as easy as signing […]

Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2008 public preview is now available, the company reports in one of its corporate blogs. The actual site where you can check it out is located here. This is the long-awaited and long-overdue update to the 2003 version of Windows Small Business Server. Pricing and specs are available here. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2008/05/13/8500555.aspx Dell‘s […]

A New York court ruled against Dell on Tuesday, saying the computer maker engaged in fraud, false advertising, deceptive business and abusive debt collection practices. New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Teresi said Dell lured customers with advertisements that offered "no interest" or "no payment" financing options, but its financing arm would then charge […]

Small is the new big. Many vendors recognize that the SMB (small and midsize business) market is growing fast and they want to do business there. But not all vendors do an equally good job of taking care of the little guy. Here are the ones that VARs say

ST GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft said on Wednesday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office. Without adding any special software to Office, users will be able to open documents sent to them in the open source Open Document Format […]

There is always a plethora of emerging technologies vying for mind share with solution providers. Invariably, they carry the promise of higher profit margins and the opportunity to build services around them. But not every emerging technology is ready for the channel, so providers must tread carefully.