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McAfee Wants to Make Its Partners Rich on Services
McAfee is adding a glut of service offerings to its portfolio and turning much of it over to its partners, in part to make them more profitable. Partners in the Authorized Partner Solutions Services program will be selling and/or delivering an expanded menu of service SKUs by January 2007, McAfee executives told The Channel Insider.…
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A Question of Trust
IT trade association CompTIA is considering launching as part of its effort to develop a set of guidelines to help resellers transform their businesses a new “trustmark” certification solution providers could earn to show that their businesses are based on sound financial principles. While that concept is good in itself, in that anything that helps…
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Expert Voices: Working Together to Improve the Health Care IT Prognosis at Montefiore
The history of health care IT has not, in general, been a happy one. The industry has consistently underinvested in IT, and thanks to the ongoing misalignment of interests among the patients, providers and payors, it doesn’t look as if increased pooling of efforts and more IT investment will happen any time soon. Still, there…
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Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard: A 3-D Impossible Dream
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer once again showed it still owns the secret sauce when it comes to computer interface design (and maybe even with hardware industrial design). At the keynote address on Aug. 7 to Apple’s faithful developers gathered here for the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, CEO Steve Jobs “wowed” the audience with demonstrations of powerful,…
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CompTIA Preps Business Transformation Tools for the Channel
CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Advisory Council is moving ahead with the creation of tools intended to help solution providers run their businesses more effectively. The council, backed with funding from Microsoft, IBM, Symantec, Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and McAfee, is developing tools that solution providers can use to assess the health of their business. The tools, currently…
