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Text Messaging Booms at U.S. Colleges
Colleges and universities across the United States are moving quickly to adopt text messaging as their first line of emergency notification, experts said. The rush to find ways to send tens of thousands of SMS messages to student cell phones was only intensified this week by the tragic events at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va.…
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SMB: It’s Good to Be the Little Guy
A Google News search the other day on “SMB” produced 1,807 returns. It’s not exactly “American Idol” numbers, but that’s a lot of news on small and midsize businesses. What’s going on? Vendors in the past couple of years have made strong strategic plays for that market space, and lately the trend seems to have…
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VARs See UC as Unconquered Territory
The small business market for unified communications telephone systems is buzzing, at least if you take the cue from major vendors such as Cisco, 3Com and Nortel. All three companies announced new systems or enhancements to existing systems for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) in the last month, giving VARs an entry into a space…
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Cisco Leverages Linksys VARs, Product Overlap
Cisco Systems is looking to more closely align its channel program with that of its acquisition, Linksys, four years after the two companies joined forces. The move, discussed at the Cisco Partner Summit in April, is designed to help both channel organizations take advantage of each other’s strengths, said Wendy Bahr, vice president of U.S.…
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Solution Provider Brings Wireless ERP to SMB Market
Enterprise Resource Planning software traditionally has found a home in large organizations, but a solution provider in Vancouver is helping to change that by bringing a wireless, open-source ERP application to small and midsize businesses. The provider, YellowDog Consulting Inc., developed the application for use in handheld devices utilized by warehouse workers to ship and…
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HP No. 1 in Worldwide PC Shipments, Says Latest Survey
Hewlett-Packard is continuing to dominate the worldwide PC marketplace at the expense of its main rival, Dell, according to an April 18 report by Gartner. The report, similar to one released by IDC on April 18, showed that HP held its top spot in the worldwide PC market with 17.6 percent market share. In the…
