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Ingram Micro, Heartland Technology Group Partner on Channel Peer Groups
Ingram Micro has teamed with Heartland Technology Group (HTG) to offer HTG’s proven peer groups to the distributor’s SMB Alliance (SMBA) partners, helping solution providers run smarter operations and overcome common business challenges. The peer groups were the brainchild of Arlin Sorenson, HTG’s CEO and founder. In 2001, Sorenson’s company was struggling to overcome customers’…
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Nortel Faces Delisting by NYSE
Nortel Networks faces delisting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as shares continue to bleed value. For the second week of December, the Canadian network and telecommunications equipment manufacturer’s stock lost another 35 percent to close at 40 cents a share. Because Nortel’s stock has closed under $1 per share for 30 consecutive…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
