News and Trends

Recent Articles

  • Why iPhone 5 And Motorola Droid Bionic Will Be the Market’s Best Fight

    Why iPhone 5 And Motorola Droid Bionic Will Be the Market’s Best Fight The 4G BattleThe Motorola Droid Bionic connects to data networks via 4G LTE. That’s an important component in all of this. The high-speed connection is very much the future, and speculation abounds that Apple’s iPhone will come with 4G, as well. If…

  • Cisco’s “Partner Led” Selling Strategy Focuses on SMBs

    Cisco Systems has made plenty of changes to the focus around its product lineup and key market segments this year, and now the company is introducing a new selling model that will put even more focus on its mid-market and SMB resellers. Cisco is calling its new initiative Partner Led, which is itself being led…

  • Accenture Settles Case for $63.7M to DOJ

    Last week Accenture agreed to pay $63.7 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to settle a long-running case against it in which the government and two whistleblower former employees claim it received kickbacks from vendors to sell products to government agencies at inflated rates, but the IT consultancy still insists the payments it received…

  • Microsoft Delivers Azure Toolkit for Windows 8

    ANAHEIM, Calif. Microsoft has released a new toolkit for developers to take advantage of the cloud capabilities of Windows Azure from Windows 8 Metro style applications. The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 is designed to make it easier for developers to create a Windows Metro style application that can harness the power of Windows…

  • Microsoft CEO Optimistic About Windows Phone

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a few moments during his company s financial analyst meeting to put a brave face on its smartphone efforts.  It was under a year ago that we launched the first Windows Phone, he told an audience of media and analysts gathered to hear Microsoft executives run down the company s…

  • RIM Promises BlackBerry PlayBook Updates

    Research In Motion reported revenues of $4.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, a 15 percent decline from the $4.9 billion it earned during the previous quarter. The company shipped some 10.6 million BlackBerry smartphones and around 200,000 BlackBerry-branded PlayBook tablets during that period. RIM s aging BlackBerry portfolio continued to drag on…

Get the Free Newsletter

Subscribe to Channel Insider to be informed on the changing IT landscape.

You must input a valid work email address.
You must agree to our terms.