Recent Articles
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Motorola Channel Chief Calls for More Competition
Against a backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon landings, Motorola’s Janet Schijns gave solution providers at the CompTIA Breakaway conference a history lesson about the real purpose behind President John Kennedy’s space challenge. In the early 1960s, the United States was in a pitch battle with the Soviet Union for political, military and technology domination.…
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Giving Credit to Solution Providers
Since the onset of the recession, big vendors and financing companies have pushed generous financing and payment terms to make it easier for end users to purchase hardware, software and even services through the channel. Still, the majority of solution providers continue to finance sales out of their own pockets, loans from local banks and…
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Symantec Adds Web Gateway Security to Protection Suite
Symantec today announced the integration of Web Gateway 4.5 into its Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition following the company’s April acquisition of Mi5 Networks. The latest improvement to the Symantec suite adds a new tier of anti-malware technology to the existing anti-virus engine that is meant to better protect users from botnet and Web 2.0…
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IT Distributor Ingram Micro Quarter Sales Down 25%
The worst seems to be over, but that doesn’t mean good times are here again, Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) CEO Greg Spierkel tells Channel Insider. The world’s largest IT distributor, Ingram Micro this week reported a sales decline of 25 percent for its Q2 year over year, a steeper decline than the 22 percent decline in…
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Microsoft CEO Surprised at Yahoo Deal Reception
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief executive tried to persuade skeptical investors on Thursday that its 10-year Web search partnership with Yahoo Inc is good for both companies. Shares of Yahoo slumped 12 percent after the long-expected deal was announced on Wednesday, and fell more than 3 percent on Thursday. Microsoft shares rose only slightly, puzzling…