News and Trends

Recent Articles

  • Salesforce Chatter Social Networking Goes Mobile

    LONDON (Reuters) – Salesforce.com will offer mobile versions of its Chatter tool for social networking inside companies from later this year as it seeks to make its software more ubiquitous and its customers more productive. The company, which pioneered the delivery of software as a service to companies over the Web, said on Wednesday Chatter…

  • Oracle President Mark Hurd’s Big Paycheck

    (Reuters) – Oracle Corp offered its new president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus of up to $10 million for fiscal 2011, plus stock options. Oracle, the world’s No. 3 software maker, named Hurd co-president on Monday, a month after he stepped down from HP following a…

  • Windows, Android to Power Smartphone Surge, IDC Says

    The worldwide market for smartphones is expected to grow 55.4 percent this year compared with 2009 amid greater-than-expected demand for the do-it-all devices, according to IT research firm IDC. This is 10 percent higher than the previous forecast from the company’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. IDC said it now expects mobile phone vendors to…

  • Hurd Hire Boosts Oracle’s Channel Cred

    Image via Wikipedia In the day since Oracle announced it would hire HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd to serve as president, replacing Charles Phillips, plenty has been written about just what Hurd brings to the table for Oracle. For instance, Oracle now has an executive that has led a multi-billion dollar business. It now has an…

  • Skype Targets Business with Channel Partner Program

    Cloud voice and video services vendor Skype is looking to up its game in the business world by introducing the Skype Channel Partner Program to help serve businesses that want to use Skype for their collaboration and communication needs. And for solution providers looking to become serious players in video conferencing, Skype may very well…

  • Ingram Micro Cloud Division Gets New Leader

    IT distribution giant Ingram Micro has named a new head of its managed services and cloud computing business.  Renee Bergeron will head up that arm of the business, replacing Justin Crotty who left Ingram Micro this summer to join hosted infrastructure and applications services provider, Netenrich. Bergeron will be responsible for Ingram Micro’s managed services…

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.