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Mashups for the Channel
“Mashup.” The term sounds like something my five-year-old would concoct with the contents of her dinner plate or with backyard dirt following a rainfall. But it’s actually a term with origins in the hip hop music world that software developers have co-opted to define a type of software application. In hip hop, a mashup consists…
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Careless Talk Costs Livelihoods
One global economist has said we all have an acute case of SARS and we need to start talking ourselves out of it now. Listening to the chief economist of HSBC, Dennis Turner, speak at the Forum on Global Leadership conference in London, was akin to the weather in New York right now. He told…
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Ruckus Sues Netgear; IBM Shuffles Top Execs; NextPoint Hires Channel Chief, more…
Ruckus has slapped Netgear with a patent-infringement lawsuit, according to The Register. The company said that Netgear has been fitting its directional Wi-Fi technology to more routers than it should. Netgear did have a licence for Ruckus’s BeamFlex technology, but only for use in some of its RangeMax routers. Ruckus considers that the RangeMax WPN…
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Prodded by Dell
If nothing else, Dell’s push into the managed services space should wake channel executives to the reality that remote monitoring and management are becoming commodity. And since those are fundamental functions to the managed services business model, that means any channel company offering managed services must ensure its offerings go beyond the commodity base level.…
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IBM launches SMB Assault
IBM has added more strings to its SMB bow, by unveiling new channel programs aimed at helping partners and ISVs to unite and deliver solutions based on Big Blue’s platform to for the small business sector. The vendor is launching new platforms as it looks to move aggressively into the SMB sector, targeting companies from…
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