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Windows Vista SP1 to Disable Activation Exploits
Microsoft will use the upcoming release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to disable the two most widely used exploits of the operating system’s activation process, as well as do away with the system that reduces access to features and functionality for those users with counterfeit or nonvalidated software. The Vista SP1 update will make…
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Channel Braces for Economic Slowdown
Solution providers are bracing for a general tightening of IT spending budgets, but those delivering managed services say they have some immunity against a possible economic slowdown in the coming year. Managed services contracts with customers generate recurring fees for solution providers, which they say guarantees that at least some of their business should remain…
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EMC’s New Tech Directions
EMC has evolved from a storage-oriented business to a company that’s worth more than $11 billion, and has grown and acquired its way to a leardership slot in the storage, protection and distribution of data. At a press and analyst conference held in late November in Cambridge, Mass., company executives outlined a range of new…
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Avnet: Partners Need to Go Cutting Edge
Avnet is encouraging channel partners to take chances on cutting-edge technologies and emerging markets before these markets become overrun by direct-business models. At Avnet’s Hewlett-Packard partner summit Nov. 28, the company’s president of global services, John Paget, told partners in his keynote speech that instead of “building business around the 5 percent of what is…
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Bell Micro to Launch Security Division
Bell Micro is branching out from its storage roots by opening a security and surveillance division in the United States. The distributor opened its U.K. security division four years ago, which is run by Duncan Hume, security division director. Hume is now relocating to the U.S. and hopes to replicate the U.K. success in the…
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OnForce Takes Online IT Services Marketplace to Canada, U.K. and Germany
OnForce, the online marketplace for IT services, last month expanded into Canada and will soon expand into Germany and the United Kingdom. The move to Canada followed customer requests for an expansion there, OnForce executives said. For example, a typical user of the service would be a U.S. solution provider with a U.S. client looking…
