Recent Articles
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Resellers Looking Beyond IE
Plenty of people are still seething about Scob, a new virus that uses keystroke logging to steal credit card numbers and other personal information. Beyond its special quirks, though, Scob is being seen as just the latest of many malware epidemics to blast through the holes in Microsoft’s software. Armed with non-Microsoft browsers, alternative operating…
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Kicking Partner Relationship Management Up a Notch
Time was, PRM (partner relationship management) was just a new way to deliver old information: product information, collateral material and the like. Most distributors can tick off the PRM box on a checklist of reseller support mechanisms. But that was then. This is now. The technology has matured since its emergence in the late 1990s.…
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Apple: New iMac in Works
Apple Computer Inc. has confirmed that the iMac is to be replaced in September with an entirely new model. With few of the iMac models still on the shelves of distributors and dealers, the company faces two months with no mainstream consumer computer available. In a statement, Apple confirmed it had stopped taking orders for…
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Rivals Create IE Alternative for Browser Plug-Ins
A group of Web browser makers has banded together to make software plug-ins as functional in their own browsers as in Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer browser. The Mozilla Foundation, Opera Software ASA and Apple Computer Inc. announced earlier this week that they have developed an extension to a plug-in API that serves as an alternative…
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Microsoft Reveals Business Solutions Partner Changes
Channel Zone has learned that, as part of the ongoing transition from the Microsoft Business Solutions partners program (mostly SMB VARs) to the Microsoft Partner Program, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday will be making several changes in its channel programs for former Microsoft Business Solutions partners. On May 4, Microsoft announced the new opportunities for MBS…
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HIPAA Reprieve: Five More Days for Compliance
Medicare providers now have a few more days to file electronic claims that do not contain all the information required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, had planned to treat non-HIPAA compliant electronic claims as paper claims starting July 1, but has now said…
