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  • BP, HarborLink Brings Internet to the Open Road

    Logging on from the road just got a little easier.   Now, truckers, road warriors and Internet junkies can stay connected while traveling down the highways of North America, thanks to an agreement between BP North America and wireless solution provider HarborLink Network to provide robust wi-fi at its 9,000 locations across the continent.  …

  • Channel Is Getting More Social

    There was once a time when the New Yorker cartoon about two dogs sitting in front of a PC was the way most of us wanted to surf the Web – “No one knows you’re a dog on the Internet.”    Today, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Through social networks, it seems everyone…

  • Top Channel Executive Changes of 2008

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  • Great Depression 2.0? Nah, Says IT Distributor

    While the economic outlook may have some people talking about a second Great Depression, one company that weathered the actual Great Depression in the 1930s and is still going strong says that it’s ready for whatever 2009 brings – and so far things don’t look so terrible. In spite of gloomy news about Black Friday…

  • VBS Reduces Back-Office Pain with VAR-specific ERP

    ERP systems were not designed with solution providers in mind. Either they’re too simple or too linear in design to accommodate the unique workflow of their sales process. Not so with a solution from VBS Software. The company’s ERP software, aptly titled VBS version 5, was designed specifically for solution providers to address what could…

  • New SAAS Provider StrataScale Redefines ‘On Demand’

    Software on demand already has changed the way applications are sold and consumed, and now a new player is tweaking the model a little further. The newcomer, StrataScale, is adding flexibility and speed to deployments and updates with its server management tool, IronScale, which administrators can control through a secure Web portal. StrataScale, a subsidiary…

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