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Building a Mobile Management Practice: Four Key Questions
As customers turn to solution providers for help with managing their mobile devices, its important for channel partners to carefully calculate which services and solutions they want to offer in order to have a comprehensive–and thriving–business model. There are a lot of strategic decisions to be made that can make or break a mobility practice.…
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IBM Leads as Server Shipments Grow 7 Percent in Q3: Gartner
Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year, according to IT research firm Gartner. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2011 except HP and Oracle. HP declined 3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle achieved flat growth.…
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Calculating the Real Value of Your Business
So many solution providers are focused on what their business is worth. For example, the recent IT Nation show had a number of sessions on "Mergers and Acquisitions." Service Leadership spends time helping business owners understand how much their business is worth. But all of this activity doesn’t actually answer the core question: “How much…
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Web Accelerator Contendo Courted by AT&T, Akamai and Juniper: Report
Cloud-based Web and mobile acceleration services specialist Cotendo is being wooed by three companies, according to a report in the Calcalist financial daily reported on Sunday. Cotendo customer AT&T, Juniper Networks and Akamai, a company that develops software for Web content and application delivery, are vying to acquire the company, though the report states specifically…
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Google, Adobe Prepare Flash for ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) may be winding down the clock on its mobile Flash multimedia software, but it’s still going to be available to support Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphones and tablets. It’s fair to call support for ICS mobile Flash Player’s swan song, as Greg DeMichillie, senior director of product management for…
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Carriers, Manufacturers Fail to Update Android Phones
Security firm Bit9 on Nov. 21 released its "Dirty Dozen" list of insecure smartphones. The list focused on Android smartphones because approximately 56 percent of Android phones in the marketplace are running out-of-date and insecure versions of the mobile operating system, Harry Svedlove, CTO of Bit9, told eWEEK. Smartphone manufacturers Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG…