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StoreNext Resells Self-Checkout Solution for Small Grocers
StoreNext Retail Technologies, a subsidiary of Retailix USA, announced Feb. 4 that it will offer the U-Scan Genesis self-checkout solution from Fujitsu Transaction Solutions to its customers, who are predominantly small independent and regional grocery chains. U-Scan Genesis features include Fujitsu TeamPoS terminals, two-handed scanning, user interfaces that support up to 12 languages and high-performance…
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The Utility Company Wants to Take MSPs Beyond Managed Services
The Utility Company has announced the addition of a new partnership level to its Beyond Managed Services franchise program aimed at attracting existing managed services providers to the company’s business model. The BMS franchise program offers small and midsize businesses a turnkey business plan so they can quickly become MSPs, delivering business services to customers…
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Elfiq Gets Sprightly in the Channel
Elfiq Networks is beefing up training and support for its channel partners to attract VARs selling networking and business continuity solutions to its partner program. Although the vendor, which provides Link Load Balancing technology, does not currently have a very formalized structure for supporting channel partners, by the middle of this year, it will expand…
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Not Much Actual Switching to Juniper Likely to Go On
As we move into 2008 it’s pretty clear that Juniper Networks is back from the edge of extinction, but whether the company will morph into anything more than a niche player in the networking space is far from certain. After years of first denying the need to be in the Ethernet switch business and then…
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Microsoft and Yahoo … Questions, Questions, Questions
“Exciting” really is not the word. Thrilling, exhilarating, comparable even to the buildup surrounding Super Bowl weekend. The news of Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo has made even the numbest of technophobes sit upright in their La-Z-Boy armchairs. But while the regulators scrutinize the deal, Wall Street and shareholders rub their hands, and online…