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Is that PC Green Enough?
How green is that product you’re about to buy? Now you can find out. Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. on Tuesday launched a new service that helps solution providers easily identify products that pass the environmental test. If your customer is a stickler about that whole environmental thing, now you know where to go. Here’s how…
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Synnex Joins Managed Services Fray
IT distributor Synnex is rolling out its own services portfolio, including managed services, more than a year after competitors Ingram Micro and Tech Data unveiled their managed services offerings for their VAR partners. Synnex said its new On Demand Services provide VARs with recurring revenue streams and longer term contracts, which in turn create greater…
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11 Charged in TJX Network Security Breach Identity Theft
BOSTON (Reuters)—The U.S. government charged 11 people on Tuesday with stealing tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers including TJX Cos Inc, in one of the largest reported identity-theft incidents on record. The U.S. Attorney in Boston said those charged were involved in the theft of more than 40 million…
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Carriers Are Missing Mobile Link
With smart phones increasingly becoming a mainstream element of enterprise computing, mobile computing is an expanding opportunity for the channel. The problem with that opportunity, however, is that it requires solution providers to work more closely with telecommunication carriers that for the most part are channel ignorant. A case in point is Motorola, which has…
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It Is Getting Greener Out There
Thus far, the main compelling reason for end users to apply green IT principles to their computing environments has been to save money. But that is starting to change, according to vendors and solution providers. While extracting costs out of IT environments through power conservation, server consolidation and virtualization remains a priority, an increasing number…
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Crime Doesn’t Pay for N.Y. VAR Caught Selling Fake Cisco Gear
An Ossining, N.Y., reseller who for four years sold cheap Chinese wireless networking gear disguised as high-end equipment from Cisco Systems is headed for a two-and-a-half year stretch in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen C. Robinson on July 31 handed down the sentence for Charles Lacy-Thompson, 52, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., owner of Coletronic Computer. Prosecutors…