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  • Managed Services

    Finding Myself My Own New Adventure

    So this is my last column with Channel Insider. After selling my MSP, I’ve taken a new role as the Director of Partner Community with Level Platforms, and the leap to the vendor side of the channel changes things for me. In my last article, I talked a bit about the solution provider itself, and…

    Dave Sobel

  • Managed Services

    Level Platforms Offers Mobile Device Management for MSPs

    Remote monitoring and management (RMM) solutions provider Level Platforms, which markets its products toward managed service providers, introduced Mobile Device Management (MDM) as a new feature in the imminent release of Managed Workplace 2012. With MDM, service providers can manage and monitor the exploding number of smartphones and tablets now being deployed in end-customer networks.…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Collaboration

    ShoreTel to Expand Cloud UC Offerings With M5 Networks Acquisition

    ShoreTel continues to grow its unified communications capabilities through acquisition, announcing Feb. 1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New York City, offers a suite of hosted unified communications (UC) products, including…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Mobile Devices

    HTC Security Flaw Found on Multiple Android Phones

    Smartphone manufacturer HTC admitted several of its phones running Google’s Android operating system have a security flaw that allows hackers or an application to view and access WiFi security information. The affected phones include the Desire HD, the Glacier, the Droid Incredible, the ThunderBolt, the Sensation, the Sensation 4G, the Desire S, the EVO 3D…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • News and Trends

    Why Windows 8 Will Be a Hit for Microsoft

    The anticipation surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming launch of Windows 8 is running high. The company’s operating system is easily the biggest departure from earlier versions Microsoft has ever launched, and it could very well be the answer to Apple’s iPad and Android-based tablets in the mobile market. Still, there are many people in the industry who…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • News and Trends

    Facebook Files for IPO, Reveals Business Details

    Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook–with…

    Channel Insider Staff

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