Channel Insider Staff

Microsoft’s quarterly numbers may rival the GDP of a small nation, but some numbers for the most recent quarter have analysts suggesting the company needs to expand beyond the traditional lines of business that fuel so much of its bottom line. Microsoft’s third-quarter revenue hit $16.43 billion, a year-over-year increase of 13 percent. Net income […]

Based on an April poll by Newtek Business Services of approximately 1,200 independent business owners, small business owners apparently lack e-commerce initiative. The low percentage of clients taking payments online—20 to 25 percent—suggests that many business owners do not know that their site can be a useful tool for selling merchandise as well as collecting […]

By Sam Liu Imagine a world without grid-based electrical service such as those provided by large utility companies. What would that look like? You’d have an ecosystem of companies that manufacture generators, distributors who stock an inventory in various regional locations, and a community of resellers and service providers who would offer electrical service to […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar conference is something akin to a debutantes’ ball. Young and/or startup companies put on their Sunday best, get their goals and priorities well-rehearsed, and compete for a few invitations to be formally introduced to venture-capital society. Then comes the ball itself: the daylong showcase event at […]

A list of data breaches by the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reveals that more than 10 million patients have been affected by security lapses in about 260 health care-related incidents reported since 2009. The department began compiling the list on Feb. 22, 2010, when the HITECH […]

New fake antivirus scareware pop up with amazing regularity, but some researchers encountered an intriguing variant that indicates scammers may begin targeting mobile platforms. A rogue antivirus masquerading as a Kaspersky Lab antivirus scanner has been spotted on mobile devices, Dinesh Venkatesan, an anti-malware researcher, posted on the CA Security Advisor Research Blog on April […]

A survey of small and midsize businesses found owners are accelerating the shift away from desktops and laptops and moving toward the latest technology and gadgets such as smartphones and tablets. The findings were published by Portfolio.com, a business news site for SMB executives and entrepreneurs. Part of a proprietary study conducted by The Business […]

Cisco Systems, which has seen its networking business come under increasing pressure in recent months from rivals, such as Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, is hitting back with a marketing campaign that touts its broad product portfolio as significantly better than “good enough.” Cisco kicked off the campaign April 25 with the release of a press […]

VMware on April 26 acquired a new whiz-bang feature to add to its growing stock of cloud-based products: SlideRocket, an online business-presentation service that competes directly against Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. Terms of the transaction to purchase the 25-person, San Francisco-based company were not disclosed by VMware. SlideRocket, founded in 2007, is currently being […]

Unified communications specialist Polycom expanded its line of telepresence solutions with three new offerings—the EagleEye Director room camera tracking system, the HDX 4500 executive desktop telepresence system and the mobile telepresence m100 solution. The EagleEye Director and the HDX4500 will be available late April through certified channel partners starting at a list price of $8,499 […]

Google April 27 released a native Google Docs application for Android with a nifty feature that lets users turn photos with text into documents that may be edited from smartphones. Google Docs app for Android, intended for download from the Android Market by folks with English phones running Android 2.1 and later, lets users tap […]

Website personalization, segmentation and analytics platform developer Personyze announced the official launch of its software-as-a-service solution that provides Website owners and marketers a suite of tools that provide advanced segmentation and personalization capabilities that are designed to enhance the visitor experience, improve advertising ROI and increase average order size. Personyze can give Web marketers the […]