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Coghead Helps Partners Deliver Killer Apps
Coghead wants ISVs with ideas for “killer apps” to design, build and deliver applications to customers via a new SAAS platform. The platform offers a simple way for ISVs to launch a custom application business and provide those applications using a software as a service model to generate recurring revenue, said Paul Salazar, vice president…
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CDW-G Signs Deal for School Safety
CDW-G has signed a strategic partnership with Web filtering vendor 8e6 to help prevent children as young as 12 from bypassing security and Web filtering appliances in schools using proxy servers. CDW-G, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW that sells to the government and education market, will now offer schools in the K-12 sector three…
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Dell, Toshiba Offering Tablet PCs
Dell and Toshiba are each bringing tablet PCs into the enterprise market this week, with both vendors offering their users touch-screen capabilities with the new models. The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC marks the first time the OEM has offered its own tablet PC for customers. Before this model rolled out Dec. 11, Dell had…
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Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters
Microsoft is once again after resellers hawking counterfeit Microsoft goods worldwide. In the past several weeks, the software giant has filed 52 lawsuits against resellers who allegedly sold counterfeit Microsoft software on various online markets. Fifteen of the 52 lawsuits involved software traced to a Chinese counterfeiting syndicate, broken up earlier this year by Chinese…
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CompUSA to Close All 103 Stores
CompUSA will close or sell all of its retail outlets and TechPro services business, the retailer and its new owner, Gordon Brothers investment bank, announced Dec. 10. Gordon Brothers, which acquired the retailer Dec. 7, said the store’s 103 locations will remain open through the holiday season but offered no further details on the closing…
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Consolidation: The Wave Continues
About a year ago, Logicalis chairman Mike Cox made a bold prediction: The North America channel will consolidate within the next five years to a handful of mega-VARs and a few hundred (that’s hundreds, not thousands) smaller local and regional VARs. Cox should know about consolidation, since Logicalis—a $900 million global solution provider—is an aggressive…
