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Unison’s Free Unified Communications Software Challenges Microsoft and Google
Unison Technologies is making a direct challenge to the traditional sales model for unified communications software, aiming directly at industry giants Microsoft and Google. Unison’s new sponsor-supported model lets businesses download and use the company’s self-branded UC software for free, says Rurik Bradbury, chief marketing officer at Unison. The Unison software combines the best features…
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IBM Global Financing Drops Small Business Flexible Credit Program
IBM Global Financing will discontinue its IBM Flexible Credit program for inventory financing at the end of 2008, saying it "did not meet the business goals set by IBM Global Financing." IBM has notified its business partners and resellers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom of the change, a company spokesman confirms.…
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Forrester: Recession to Slow Down 2009 US IT Spending
IT spending will be significantly lower than previously expected in 2009, but is still expected to grow, according to Forrester Research, which issued its U.S. IT spending forecast report today. Forrester Research is now projecting IT spending to grow by 1.6 percent in 2009, down from the analyst firm’s previous projection of 6.1 percent that…
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Drafting VARs Could Secure U.S. Digital Infrastructure
The sorry state of cyber-security in the United States has made the nation vulnerable to attacks on its entire infrastructure, from the Internet to the national power grid, according to a Washington-based think tank. Now it’s up to solution providers to help accomplish what the federal government has not been able to–lock down our cyber-borders.…
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Spammers Out Innovating SMB Security
In 2006, e-mail security provider MXLogic conducted a SMB survey that found the smaller the company, the more likely it was to be vulnerable to e-mail threats. Since then, there’s been an explosion of security technologies that promise SMBs protection from e-mail borne threats. With all this technology available, and with a growing number of…
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Lenovo Sweetens PC, Server Financing
Looking to soften the one-two punch of tighter credit from banks and slashed IT budgets, Lenovo has joined the ranks of IT hardware vendors that are sweetening their financing offers for end customers in order to boost sales through the channel. Lenovo told Channel Insider that it is offering 90-day no payment terms to end…