Tag: business

  • ATandT Extends Smartphone Management Capabilities from MobileIron

    Nathan Eddy

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    Communications giant AT&T has announced a service to help businesses better manage and help secure smartphones on multiple operating systems within their organizations. The service, MobileIron VSP (Virtual Smartphone Platform) from AT&T, provides over-the-air protection and control for both company- and employee-owned smartphones used within an organization. The service also provides multiplatform visibility for integrated… Read more

  • Compulsory Flash Intros

    Compulsory Flash Intros

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Compulsory Flash Intros Have you ever tried to enter a shopping mall and had a big burly guy block your entry until you watched a cool promo video? That’d annoy the heck out of you, right? Okay then. Same principal applies to your site. Hidden Contact Information If a customer has to play a version… Read more

  • Lenovo Sees Quarter Improvement, Eyes PC Acquisitions

    Channel Insider Staff

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    HONG KONG, Nov 10 (Reuters) – A return to profitability in mature markets helped Lenovo (HK:0992) beat expectations to post its best profit growth in a year, and it may follow rivals Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) in using M&A to fuel growth. The world’s No. 4 PC brand is looking for merger and acquisition… Read more

  • HP’s CEO Apotheker Surfaces in Japan

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 (Reuters) – If the private eyes hired by Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) to track down Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker could read Japanese, they might have already closed the case. Apotheker’s whereabouts have been the subject of much debate in a high-profile legal battle between Oracle and SAP (DE:SAPG), the company he… Read more

  • Cloud Business Models, Sales, the Focus of Ingram Micro Cloud

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to help IT solution providers make the transition to the cloud, Ingram Micro has launched a new partner enablement platform called Ingram Micro Cloud, which includes a new partner website as well as the Ingram Micro Cloud Services Network and only Cloud Marketplace. “The Ingram Micro Cloud platform is aimed at helping VARs and… Read more

  • Dell Dumps BlackBerry for Dell Windows Phone 7 Smartphones

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Dell Inc will shift thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry and over to Dell’s smartphones, the company said on Thursday. The money-saving switch affects the roughly 25,000 Dell employees who carry a company-issued BlackBerry. Dell employs around 100,000 people worldwide. Dell is also launching an effort to convince its… Read more