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Intel Placing Big WiMax Bets
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel is investing heavily in WiMax in hopes of getting the networked world to switch to the super high-speed wireless technology within a few years, a senior executive said on Tuesday. "Intel is leading the charge," Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, said in an interview. "We’re…
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The Growing Clout of the Channel
Based on some of the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are about 861,000 IT professionals working in the IT services space today. In total, some 1.4 million people work for IT services companies so a little more than half the people working for IT services companies are actually IT people. But…
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A Deeper Look at Services Pricing
It’s no secret that services are the gold that drives profitability in the channel. According to the Channel Insider 2008 Channel Outlook survey, more than half of solution providers’ revenue and profit comes from some form of service offering. What may come as a surprise is the value of VOIP and telephony services. The Channel…
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Savvis: We’ll Deliver SAP Within 6 Hours
When you’re rolling out SAP, time-to-deployment is measured in weeks if not months, right? That may be true now, but by the end of the year, hosted infrastructure and software provider Savvis claims it will be able to give system integrators and service providers SAP Business All-In-One solutions within just 6 hours. "Because of exclusive…
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Lead Management on Demand Comes to the Channel
The state of marketing automation software in the channel has never been anything to write home about. Most vendors don’t really have any and the few vendors that do have something in place are typically using a relatively rudimentary module that is part of some larger CRM (customer relationship management) suite. But as we’ve seen…
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Acer Ups Sales Forecast, Sees Small PC Boom
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer Inc. said on Tuesday its sales will grow by more than 50 percent this year, raising its previous forecast as demand for laptops grows despite consumers feeling the pinch from an economic slowdown and rising fuel and food prices. The world No.3 PC vendor said that smaller, cheaper laptops are…