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  • Want to Develop Apps for Windows Mobile?

    Developers looking to create and sell applications for the Windows Mobile OS will be subject to a new set of rules by Microsoft, the company has announced. But rather than impose strict regulations, the new rules are designed to ease the process for developers and help them reap more revenue through the recently announced Windows…

  • USA.NET, HP Partner to Deliver SaaS to Target SMBs

    USA.NET will partner with Hewlett-Packard to deliver a more comprehensive set of hosted services and advanced collaboration tools that can generate new revenue streams for solution providers. The agreement, announced last week, will allow HP’s approximately 25,000 solution provider partners access to USA.NET’s hosted e-mail, messaging and collaboration solutions as a part of their software-as-a-service…

  • Polycom Media Phone Brings Videoconferencing Down to Size

    Video- and audio-conferencing stalwart Polycom is bringing videoconferencing to the desktop with a media phone aimed at the SMB and enterprise spaces. The Polycom VVX 1500 is a business media phone with a 7-inch color touch-screen that combines a personal videoconferencing system with VOIP (voice over IP), so users can conduct meetings at their desktop…

  • Ruckus Vies for Enterprise Attention

    Ruckus Wireless has introduced a dual-band 802.11n access point and other WLAN products designed to earn it some attention in the enterprise space. Ruckus, which found its sweet spot in the midmarket between vendors serving the large enterprise space such as Cisco Systems and Aruba Networks and the consumer market such as Linksys, has been…

  • Symantec’s New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel

    Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share away from Symantec. They say they’re slowly chipping away at Big Yellow’s dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution providers say they are switching away from Symantec because of poor products…

  • Librato Leverages Old-School Concepts for New-World Data Centers

    Librato’s newly announced channel partner program will leverage old-school workload management concepts with cutting-edge technology to better support solution providers who want to take enterprise customers beyond virtualization. John Wernke, vice president of marketing for Librato, says while workload management concepts have been around since the early days of computing, the tenets of resource optimization…

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