Recent Articles
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CompTIA Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Robert G. Parsons first realized he needed some guidance on where his business was headed when he began hiring young sales representatives a few months ago to push the products and services of his company, Automated Office Solutions, a VAR in Evansville, Ohio. The firm had seen a dip in profitability proportional to the dip…
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Microsoft’s Indemnification Card
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Carrying the Load for Network Security
Overwhelmed by an onslaught of external threats that aim to take down or infiltrate their networks, enterprises are increasingly turning to their telecommunications carriers, ISPs and managed services providers to help stop attacks before they arrive. Companies are demanding that their providers offer a range of security protections as part of their licensing agreements. Alongside…
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Vista Breaks Applications
Microsoft really doesn’t want you to know this, but many of your existing applications won’t work with Vista. In fact, some brand new products won’t work with Vista. At the top of that list of “It doesn’t work,” we find, believe it or not, Microsoft new music player, Zune. Yes, that’s right; Microsoft’s iPod killer…
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VARs Want More Baby-sitting from CompTIA Roadmap
Early users of CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Roadmap Beta version, released in August, have said the process leaves to much of the shepherding and policing of progress to the VARs themselves. The roadmap, a Web-based program and guide to help resellers first assess the state of their business, such as what areas are profitable or unprofitable…
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Smith Micro Launches New Data Compression Software for Windows
Smith Micro Software Inc. announced Nov. 21 that it has launched its latest data compression software that will be able to reduce the size of joint photographic experts group (JPEG) and allow users to be productive in a variety of management tasks. The data compression software developer out of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has released StuffIt…
