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Cisco Partners Welcome SMB-Sized VOIP System
LAS VEGAS—While his small business customers may not have been clamoring to try IP telephony—if they even know what it is—Stuart Raburn, president of VAR Teklinks, said that he has been at a loss for what phone system to suggest if their current system needs replacing. The Cisco VAR, based in Homewood, Ala., has wanted…
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Intel Offers vPro for Laptops
Intel’s vPro technology is about to go mobile. The Santa Clare, Calif., chip maker is announcing April 4 that it will start offering the management and security features found in its vPro platform with the company’s new Centrino Pro microprocessor technology. In a statement, Intel said the vPro platform will be part of its next-generation…
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Study: US Talent Pool Isn’t Dry, but Shrinking
A commonly heard defense in the arguments that surround U.S. companies that offshore high-tech and engineering jobs is that the U.S. math and science education system is not producing a sufficient number of engineers to fill a corporation’s needs. However, a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating that there is no…
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Cisco Preps Managed Services Play
Cisco Systems is testing a managed services program that will designate participating partners as Cisco-approved MSPs. The company is running a pilot of the program with three major partners and is on track to formally launch the program in the fall, said Surinder Brar, senior director of channel programs and strategy for Cisco, based in…
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Year’s Supply of H-1B Visas Tapped Out on Day One
Breaking yet another record of H-1B visa depletion, the entire supply of specialized-occupation temporary worker visas for the 2008 fiscal year were exhausted the first day they were available, the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) announced April 3. Each year since 2004, when the cap on H-1B visas was slashed from a record high…
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Open Source Technologies are Paving New Channel Inroads
When most people think about open source, the first thing that naturally comes to mind is Linux and then maybe the Apache Web server project. But all across the landscape, there are a number of less-ambitious, open-source efforts under way that hold a lot of promise for solution providers looking to shore up their profitability.…
