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Pricing, Availability Confusion Haunt BlackBerry PlayBook
Research In Motion’s PlayBook is due to receive a major software update in February. However, many other details surrounding the tablet–including its price and retail availability–seem in flux at the moment. Early on Nov. 27, tech publications such as Electronista began reporting that Best Buy was canceling PlayBook orders, quoting users on the retailer s…
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WatchGuard Releases Small Business Security Appliance
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, unveiled its latest security operating system for the XTM line of unified threat management appliances. With this release, businesses gain advanced networking capabilities for mobile workers, as well as enhanced management and reporting functions that provide insight into applications, bandwidth usage, user behavior and more. The release of…
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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…