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Credit, Money Strategy: IT Solution Providers Navigate Tight Financing Market
The indirect channel’s ongoing embrace of services and move away from warehousing physical products, coupled with downward pressures on the overall economy, have made it increasingly challenging for solution providers to get loan-approval from banks and other traditional money-lenders. “We are in a fairly esoteric biz and we sell an intangible product. There’s nothing physically…
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The iPhone 5 Is Launching This Fall
The iPhone 5 Is Launching This Fall The latest rumors suggest the iPhone 5 could launch in September or October. Apple hasn’t said if it will, but based on the fact that we haven’t seen it yet, the timing seems perfect for a new smartphone in the fall. So Is the iPad 3 Other rumors…
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ConnectWise Opens IT Nation to All MSPs, VARs
Professional services automation vendor ConnectWise is taking its annual IT Nation conference to the next level this year, opening it up to IT solution providers who are not ConnectWise partners. “IT Nation has served as an annual meeting of ConnectWise partners to get together and share their successes with one another,” said Arnie Bellini, ConnectWise…
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Yahoo CEO Bartz “Fired Over The Phone”
Yahoo, a Web services pioneer that has been beset with financial troubles for the better part of the last decade, made a change in leadership Sept. 6 when its board of directors removed CEO Carol Bartz and named Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse as interim CEO. It was the second announcement of a change at…
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D-Link Releases ShareCenter Pro Unified Storage System
Networking solutions provider D-Link announced the ShareCenter Pro network storage solutions, which support concurrent NAS and iSCSI connectivity and are designed for SMB environments. With the ShareCenter Pro N-Series and S-Series models, D-Link has expanded its business storage offerings to offer unified storage solutions with built-in security, data protection and disaster recovery functionality well-suited for…
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How 9/11 Changed How the U.S. Buys IT
By many accounts, the improvements in technology use by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been few, expensive and mostly ineffective. Critics point to airport scanners that travelers hate and that have so far failed to uncover or foil new attacks. “Most of the innovation that has occurred is in protecting…
