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  • Small Business Gets Hosted PBX, Unified Communications Service from Intermedia

    Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server (OCS) provider Intermedia  is now offering a hosted PBX service aimed at small businesses with about 50 employees. Intermedia Hosted PBX is the last big piece of the company’s unified communications puzzle, and customers who subscribe to all three services can get fully-integrated UC features and functionality. Direct…

  • SAAS Momentum Outpacing Packaged Software, Study Says

    While cloud technologies are often greeted with caution by traditional value-added resellers who wonder how the business model could ever work for them, a new report from IDC finds that software as a service (SAAS) continues to gain momentum against packaged software sales. The IDC report says that SAAS revenue will grow five times faster…

  • Google Apps Gets User Policy Management Controls

    Following an announcement July 13 regarding the addition of mobile device management options for Google Mobile Apps administrators, including a requirement for devices to use data encryption, search giant Google introduced what it said is "one of the most highly requested features from administrators: user policy management." This means "administrators can segment their users into…

  • Microsoft, McAfee, Peer 1 Provide Hosted Exchange to SMBs

    Vancouver-based managed hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting announced a partnership with Microsoft said to offer customers fully featured, enterprise-level e-mail services. In addition to the Peer 1 hosting services, this offering aims to deliver a cost-effective way of managing SMB (small to medium-size business) customer mail environments. The hosted Microsoft Exchange solution is a scalable…

  • Mobile Users at Home on the Web, Report Finds

    A report from Pew Research found as of May 2010, 59 percent of all adult Americans go online wirelessly, via a smartphone or on a notebook using a mobile broadband card. Roughly half of all adults (47 percent) use a notebook go online in this way, up from the 39 percent who did so at…

  • Lenovo Services Sales to be All Channel-Led

    Lenovo has introduced a new partner services program called Blueprint that the PC maker says distinguishes it as a channel friendly vendor, even as other hardware vendors such as Dell and HP, which have acquired their own services businesses such as Perot Systems and EDS, have created concern about channel conflict. “There’s a lot of…

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