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Dell, HP Confronting Shortage of Laptop Batteries
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Dell Inc said on Tuesday the personal-computer industry was experiencing a shortage of laptop batteries partly because of a recent fire at a major supplier, but the company was working with other suppliers to limit any price increases. Dell, the world’s second-largest PC maker after Hewlett-Packard Co., also said prices of its separately sold…
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Xerox CEO: Services Offer Payday for VARs
Xerox chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy said the vendor will continue to drive revenue and growth through a services-led strategy with numerous opportunities for resellers. Mulcahy told Channel Insider that there are numerous opportunities for VARs delivering services such as document management, digital imaging and environmental assessments, and that there’s still room for growth in the MFP…
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Motorola Channel to Get Good
Looking to expand its distribution of Good Technology – a rival to BlackBerry — Motorola announced March 25 that it would offer its Good Mobile Messaging and Good Mobile Intranet through its 10,000 PartnerSelect channel partners. The announcement marries the channel program of one Motorola acquisition, Symbol Technologies, with the technology of a second Motorola…
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Microsoft Confirms Jet DB Flaw, MS Word Attacks
Attackers are exploiting a buffer overrun vulnerability in the lightweight database that provides data access to Microsoft Access, Visual Basic and third-party applications. An unpatched security flaw in Microsoft’s Jet Database Engine is being used to launch targeted attacks against Windows users, according to an advisory from the software vendor. The attacks, described by Microsoft…
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Microsoft Enables Do-It-Yourself VOIP
Small businesses have always had to turn to telephony specialists for help in installing and maintaining phone systems. Microsoft on March 24 tried to turn that truth on its head when the company introduced Service Pack 1 for its new Microsoft Response Point phone system. The announcement coincided with the start of Microsoft’s Small Business…
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Trading Spaces: The Channel Exec Edition
You may do a double take if you are looking for the same channel bosses at Oracle or Intel or Microsoft or Juniper lately. If you blinked your eyes recently, you probably missed the fast changes, announced or unannounced, over the past few weeks and months. So here’s a recap. Oracle lost both of its…