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VARs Say Customers Opening Wallets for New Wireless Standard 802.11n
As the IEEE prepares to finally ratify the 802.11n wireless standard in early September, VARs are jockeying to position themselves with the right mix of products and services to meet an expected uptick in wireless projects. According to a report released by ABI Research, analysts project that by 2011 Wi-Fi chip-set vendors will ship 1…
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Networking Vendor D-Link Teases Channel Program Improvements
Three months after a reorganization at the top combined the Americas organization of networking vendor D-Link, executives from the 100 percent channel company say efforts are under way to energize the company’s channel organization. That will come in the form of a new partner portal, additional incentives, partner recruitment efforts and loyalty programs, says Betsy…
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Nokia Enters Netbook Market
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market. Nokia has seen its profit margins drop over the last quarters as handset demand has slumped, and analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin,…
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required…
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Smartphone Users Get Bigger Display and Keyboard from Redfly
Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way. Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging technology in 2008, may just have the solution for your customers, and…
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Small Business IT Budgets Drop, but Some Spending Remains
Small business and midmarket business are decreasing their operating IT budgets by 4 percent in 2009 and their IT capital budgets by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2009, even as they strive for the most part to keep compensation and headcount about the same. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which…
