Recent Articles
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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…
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IBM to Sell Support for Rival to Microsoft Office
BOSTON (Reuters) – IBM will offer help desk service for its Symphony line of software, raising the competition with rival Microsoft Corp’s suite of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The programs from International Business Machines Corp have been available for free on its Web site since September 2007, but businesses can now buy contracts for help…
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Intel Starts Shipping Atom for PCs
Intel is preparing to ship the first of its Atom processors, which the chip maker believes will create an entire new category of low-cost PCs that it calls "Netbooks" and "Nettops." Intel announced the availability of two Atom processors—the Atom N270 processor and the Atom 230 chip—at the 2008 Computex conference in Taiwan. The company…
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Feeling Carbon-Bloated? A Little IT Could Help
As Americans cope with ever-higher gas prices and IT companies launch initiatives to conserve energy, the folks running grassfire.org are encouraging people to waste as much energy as possible for one day in June. That day is June 12, when Congress is set to take up a carbon tax proposal. The Senate today starts debating…
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2008: A Bright Outlook
If the economy is about to take a dive, solution providers don’t seem all that worried. Nearly three-fourths of channel companies polled in Ziff Davis Enterprise’s Channel Outlook 2008 study said they anticipate higher profits in the next 12 months, and many expect to achieve that with new customers, a sharpened focus on solution sales…