Recent Articles
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Microsoft Plans to Open Retail Stores
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp announced plans Thursday to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up with rival Apple Inc’s successful move into retailing. The world’s largest software company, which also makes the Xbox video game console and the Zune digital music player, did not say how many stores…
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Study: Economy Fueling MSP Interest Among Vendors
As business spending on equipment and software slows, some of the biggest IT vendors are setting their sights on subscription-based revenue sources to help buoy them through the economic slump. A new study by Amazon Consulting and Channel Insider reveals that managed services, for which clients pay MSPs (managed services providers) utility-like fixed fees, are…
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Viral Marketing: Cheap, Not Easy
Viral marketing is all the rage … again. Affordable, easy to access and able to catch the mindshare of millions of customers, viral marketing is quickly taking the place of traditional media. With limited dollars to spend on advertising and marketing, many companies have taken to developing and placing their own advertising. This is reflected…
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Tough Times, Measured Action
The dawn of the Obama era and the infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus funds are not enough to clear the economic storm clouds gathered over North America. Here’s the gruesome tale of the tape: Since the beginning of the New Year, the U.S. economy alone has shed nearly 600,000 jobs. Gross…
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Cisco Pads Router, Switch Profitability with Rebates
After announcing stinging drops in hardware sales in January, Cisco Systems is relaunching rebate incentives designed to stimulate solution provider sales of routers, switches and core networking equipment. Under the plan originally unveiled in December 2008, solution providers that close sales on routers will receive a 5 percent rebate and sales on switches will receive…
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Vendors You Can Count On
Vendors You Can Count On Channel Insider asked solution providers which vendors would provide the most support and stability during the recession. Based on the survey responses, the following vendors are ranked as the ones solution providers can count on to help them through a recession. 10. Oracle Changing channel leadership in the past year…
