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A Channel-Friendly Teleco Carrier
It’s widely known that there isn’t always a lot of love between solution providers and telecommunications carriers. After all, carriers frequently abuse their ability to buy network gear in volume to undercut the prices of solution providers, they give solution providers a pittance of a fee for reselling their services and given half a chance…
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Belt Tightening: Simple Cost-Saving Tips
The news out this week is grim. Unemployment has reached a 25-year high and more layoffs are in the offing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average—the barometer of our economic health—continues to drop at record rates. Retailers are reporting the first declines in 20 years and there is news of the three big automakers consolidating to…
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Can Solution Providers Leverage Web 2.0 as Obama Did?
Whoever you supported in the recent presidential election, one lesson everyone can learn from the whole thing is that technology is changing the way organizations interact with their customers. Witness the heavy use of Web 2.0 technology by the Barack Obama campaign and that campaign’s appeal to young voters. The Obama campaign made use of…
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Time for Change in the Channel, Again
The country is in the mood for change, as evidenced by the election of Barack Obama as our 44th president. Obama’s call for a new way of doing things resonated with the voters, who went to the polls in record numbers. Now comes the hard part – making the change. It’s not an easy proposition,…
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AMD Lays off 500 People Worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), one of the world’s two makers of microprocessors for personal computers, said it had cut 500 people from its staff of 15,500, effective Wednesday, as part of a move to cut costs. A spokesman declined to give any details about where the cuts had been made. They…
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Cisco CEO Says Now’s the Time to Buy Small Companies
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO) Chief Executive John Chambers said it was a good time to acquire small companies, although an uncertain economy meant it was important to maintain a strong cash position. "Cash is king and queen and the royal family," he told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday, but added…
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