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IBM Targets Google With Online Email
(Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business…
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Does Windows Mobile 7 Delay Portend Zune Phone?
The repeated delay of Windows Mobile 7 is throwing the rumor mill into overdrive following the recent online leak of photos thought to represent phone prototypes from a development project at Microsoft called Project Pink. The photos and speculation around them place Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger in the spotlight and are leading many to conclude…
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Polycom Sales Chief’s Insider View of the Cisco, Tandberg Combo
If anybody has insight into the sales and channel programs of the newly combined Cisco and Tandberg video conferencing operation, it’s probably Polycom’s new executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller, who joined Polycom about three months ago, has served as an executive at Cisco and also as the CEO of Tandberg. “I’m…
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Cisco VARs Waiting on Back Orders
For months Cisco Systems has promoted rebates and sales incentives for its core infrastructure products to spur resellers and integrators to sell more switches and routers. Some resellers have gone out and done that only to discover that product was unavailable. Several solution providers have contacted Channel Insider about the Cisco inventory problem. They say…
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ASCII, Cetrom Partnership Addresses Cloud Interoperability
The ASCII Group is partnering with Cetrom Information Technology to deliver seamlessly integrated and customized cloud computing services that solution providers can brand and resell as their own. The program will enable members of the ASCII Group, a collaborative community of solution providers, to gain access to discounted cloud-based Microsoft and other application and hosting…
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Seven Vendors Run Paces of SAML 2.0 Test
System integrators and VARs who help enterprises with their identity and access management (IAM) initiatives received just a little bit more market clarity about the interoperability of seven major vendors’ products yesterday. The Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance announced IAM products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens all passed the Liberty…