Recent Articles
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Microsoft Eyes Partner Sales Effectiveness, Profitability
Microsoft channel executives have their hands full trying to craft the company’s partner program to cater to a broad spectrum of constituents, from small ISVs to name-brand OEMs. It’s no small feat, given the sheer volume of partners in the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s system: 122,000 in the U.S. and 394,000 worldwide. This year, the…
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Apple’s iPhone, Mac Seeing Higher Sales to Business
Apple has never been known for its strong reseller channel partner program or its efforts to woo the channel with discounts and back-end rebates. But over the years as Apple’s Mac platform has made inroads into small businesses and workgroups within larger enterprises, the channel has come along for the ride, with or without Apple’s support.…
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Intel Pegs Netbook Cannibalization at 20 Percent
(Reuters) – Cannibalization of laptop computer sales by lower-priced netbooks is currently about 20 percent, "less than speculation", Intel’s European sales chief told Reuters on the fringes of a company event. Christian Morales said netbook sales were about 16 percent of all notebook sales globally, and a little higher in western Europe. In Britain and…
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Intel Provides Sneak Peak at Nehalem-EX Processor
Intel plans to release the next Xeon server processor in 2010, and it will be able to support up to eight cores inside a single chip. According to Boyd Davis, general manager of server platforms group marketing at Intel, the Nehalem-EX (EX for expandable server market) is being designed for high-end server platforms. Previewing the…
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Study Shows Companies Clamoring to Go Green
New research commissioned by Symantec shows a wealth of opportunities for solution providers to help customers with equipment, services and strategies for going green. As recently as 12 months ago, many organizations might have placed green IT close to the bottom of their list of technology priorities. Now, however, new research shows that green IT…
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Health Care Provider Cuts Patient Intake Time with Apple iPhone App
RehabCare Group has created a new application for employee Apple iPhones that has shortened the processing time for patient prescreens from as many as 18 hours to less than 60 minutes, the company reports. The application was created with Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform in four days, according to Salesforce.com, which offers its Force.com platform as a…