Recent Articles
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Toshiba Notebooks’ Glory Days Are Over
An audible yawn from VARs and integrators was about all Toshiba could muster last week after announcing it is selling a line of sub-$1,000 notebooks through the channel. If the vendor, once the channel’s notebook king, expected VARs and integrators to trip over themselves to get their hands on the machines, it must have been…
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Microsoft Patches IE
Microsoft Corp. released software updates in two security bulletins Tuesday, MS05-054 and MS05-055. The updates include fixes for critical new holes in IE, and code to remove a program from Sony BMG that introduced a vulnerability onto customers’ Windows machines, according to Stephen Toulouse, security program manager with Microsoft’s Security Resource Center. The cumulative patch…
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CRM Becomes More ‘Dynamic’
The customer relationship management landscape continued its rapid evolution last week, as vendors rolled out new and updated offerings designed to give enterprises greater control over their customer relationships. Microsoft Corp. announced last week its long-awaited Dynamics CRM 3.0, which brings a hosted capability through partners, rounds out the suite with marketing capabilities, and adds…
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Synnex, VARStreet Launch E-Commerce Initiative
Distributor Synnex Corp. and VARStreet Inc. are expanding their partnership to market the vendor’s e-commerce platform to the VARs and integrators that source product from the distributor. Synnex, of Fremont, Calif., already has an arrangement with VARStreet, of Santa Clara, Calif., to provide pricing and inventory information to VARs and integrators on the VARSstreet platform.…
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Avnet Creates “Miniature Channel” for HP VARs and ISVs
Distributor Avnet Partner Solutions unveiled this week an extension of its Market Connection program to team ISVs with VARs in vertical and geographic markets. The program focuses on Hewlett-Packard Co. VARs and essentially builds a “miniature channel” of HP VARs—one each in 11 sales regions—for ISVs with solutions in ERP, healthcare, Business Intelligence and IT…
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Watson’s Contextual Search Goes Free
Search startup Intellext Inc. today launched a free version of its Watson search tool. Intellext said its search sidebar is different from other tools, such as Google Inc.’s Sidebar, because Watson automatically searches for and generates information relevant to the document the user is currently viewing, such as an e-mail, Web page or Microsoft Word…
