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Crafting Tech Opportunities amid Economic Ruin
While IT solution providers may be seeing their business customers push out payments or delay deals, they are taking the now-confirmed recession in stride. “It’s not like we are in the auto industry facing bankruptcy,” says Ken Lamneck, Tech Data’s president of the Americas, speaking about business and the current economy. “Our partners serve SMBs,…
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Toshiba`s Latest Tecra Turns Compromise into an Art Form
Some notebook manufacturers pin success on the ability to be the fastest or lightest or most feature rich systems on the market, and while cutting edge technology does have its place, there is a simple truth that many ignore – affordability. While many may salivate over the performance of the latest top-of-the-line Lenovo ThinkPad or…
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Ingram Micro Partners with Microsoft on Recession-Busting SAAS Program
Distributor Ingram Micro and software behemoth Microsoft believe they have found a way to help solution providers and their customers fight the recession blues—software as a service. The companies have partnered to extend the vendor’s Service Provider License Agreement to Ingram Micro’s solution providers, specifically those selling into the SMB market. Click here to read…
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Managing Paper Chaos with a Xerox Travel Scanner
Take a look at the typical desk and you will find stacks of paper. For some people, it’s a fact of life. For others, it’s an exercise in frustration. Desk-bound workers aren’t the only ones confounded by paper. The situation can be much worse for mobile workers, who often don’t have the luxury of a stationary desk…
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Intuit Cuts Forecast on Small Business Sales
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Intuit Inc (NASDAQ:INTU), maker of TurboTax tax preparation software, posted a quarterly loss and lowered its full-year outlook, saying its customers were facing a challenging economic environment. The company cut its fiscal 2009 forecasts for sales of QuickBooks accounting software and for revenue from payroll and bill payment processing…
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Is Unified Communications Still a Hot Channel Product?
The reports are everywhere that small and midsize businesses are cutting back on IT purchases due to the impact of the financial crisis and continuing global economic downturn. Many industry watchers have said unified communications will be a hot technological area for SMBs going forward—with products from names like Cisco Systems and Microsoft. For NEC…
