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Microsoft, Nortel VOIP Alliance Gets Real
Microsoft and Nortel Networks on Jan. 17 revealed more about their Unified Communications Alliance, announcing real deliverables and detailing a road map for further products due next year. The alliance, launched in the summer of 2006, has yielded over the last six months a series of integrated offerings due out this year. First of the…
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Ascentive Launches Channel Program with Initial Margins of 50 Percent
Just a few months after introducing an enterprise version of its BeAware workplace activity monitoring software, Ascentive has launched a channel program that offers partners up to a 50 percent margin for deals registered in the first 90 days of their participation. Any VAR can get a 20 percent discount from the list price, said…
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If You Think It’s Hype, You’ll Miss the Boat
Call it hype if you must, but managed services are fueling a very real IT services movement. And that movement is about to gain momentum, as users become more attuned to the benefits of engaging a solution provider to deliver the services. I can almost see the eye rolls as I embark on yet another…
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RSS Setup Can Be Really Simple
In today’s Web 2.0 world, learning how to hand-code an RSS file can often seem as necessary as learning how to create and edit the code behind a PDF document. That’s because businesses that want to use RSS will quickly find there are a whole host of applications happy to automatically create RSS feeds of…
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RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload
We can’t live with e-mail; we can’t live without it. Indispensable to most businesses today, e-mail can be a millstone around the necks of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network…
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Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys
Microsoft says the Windows operating system software is not the weakest link in desktop security, and contends that Windows Vista will help limit the greatest vulnerability of all—users’ bad decision-making. While previous iterations of Microsoft’s dominant operating system hit the market with an abundance of security loopholes that left users open to many different forms…
