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Microsoft Wants Evolutionary Partners
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Julie Bennani, vice president of Global Partner Programs, identified not only how the partner program was going to evolve over the next several years, but also why it must evolve. Many of the solution providers—and even some of the other vendors—I talked with at the conference thought Microsoft was…
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Mobile Firms like Cash from Data, but Worry about Devices
By David Lawsky SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. mobile phone companies have begun to see substantial returns from delivering data and not just voice, fueled by greater openness on their networks, industry leaders said on Wednesday. But top executives of three of the nation’s four largest mobile carriers also said they are still worried by…
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Ikon Office to Cut 250 Jobs, Take Charge
(Reuters) – Office equipment distributor Ikon Office Solutions (IKN) said it will cut about 265 jobs in the United States to reduce costs. In a regulatory filing, the company said its board has also approved a plan to reduce the number of its Off-site Managed Services business (LDS) locations in the United States to 47,…
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HP Lowers Cost of Entry into Point-of-Sale Systems
When you think about the number of small business customers that still rely on electronic cash registers, you can see the outstanding opportunity for the channel. Of course, one of the reasons that there are so many companies still using electronic cash registers is the price of PC-based point-of-sale systems. Fully configured, the average PC-based…
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Hiring Managers: You Want How Much $$$?
Monster.com, the world’s largest online job listing portal, has tens of thousands of IT jobs listed. Hotjobs.com returns more than 27,000 IT, software development and telecommunication jobs. And Dice.com, the job site devoted exclusively to technology, lists more than 86,000 open positions. That’s just skimming the surface of a preliminary technology job search. Tens of…
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Going Green with Managed Services
by Pedro Pereira Going Green with Managed Services by Pedro Pereira The appeal of managed services for solution providers centers around the reduction in costs afforded by the ability to monitor and manage IT environments remotely. For end users, the attraction has to do with a combination of cost savings and increased computing reliability. In…
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