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  • Channel Insider Bull`s Eye Award Nominations Extended

    Channel Insider has received hundreds of nominations for the inaugural Bull’s Eye Awards, which will recognize excellence in execution among solution providers, managed service providers, vendors, distributors and channel support organizations. After receiving numerous requests, Channel Insider extended the nomination deadline to Wednesday, Nov. 25. >> CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A NOMINATION The awards are…

  • Tech Data Quarter Points to 2010 Recovery

    IT distributor Tech Data’s (NASDAQ:TECD) CEO says there is a greater tone of optimism among the VARs he’s spoken to today than four quarters ago. That doesn’t necessarily mean a quick conversion into sales, he says, but the pipeline is more robust than it has been. And that points to 2010 as a year of…

  • Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era

     Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown. Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued…

  • Apple Voids Warranties of Smoking Mac Owners

    Everyone knows smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products causes numerous forms of cancer. But can cigarette smoke contaminate an inanimate object with carcinogens? Apparently, that’s what Apple and its authorized repair shops believe.   The Consumerist reports receiving at least two complaints from Mac owners who were refused warranty service because the owners were smokers.…

  • Google Chrome OS to Boot PC Within 7 Seconds

    (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four…

  • CA Channel Exec Wants Partners Back From Symantec

    Adam Famularo wants his partners back. Plain and simple. As senior vice president and general manager for CA’s Recovery Management & Data Modeling business unit, Famularo didn’t mince words in a recent interview with Channel Insider when he discussed the renewed momentum he’s seeing around the company’s back-up and recovery products and just how badly…

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