Tag: Office

  • Google: We’re Committed Growing with the Channel

    Google: We’re Committed Growing with the Channel

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Google’s launch of a formal reseller channel partner program for Google Apps Premier Edition could be considered a pre-emptive strike against Microsoft, as the Microsoft Office Web Applications aren’t scheduled for release until 2010. Still, a channel partner of both companies says Google’s new program stacks up with the best of them. Google made its… Read more

  • Getting Out of the Microsoft Office

    Getting Out of the Microsoft Office

    Jessica Davis

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    Getting Out of the Microsoft Office Google has spent the last several years playing on the periphery of one of Microsoft’s richest markets: Office applications. Now Google is launching a reseller program to accelerate the adoption of its Web-based Google apps. But Google isn’t the only one trying to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of everyday productivity… Read more

  • Cisco Intros Channel Support for Home and SOHO Sales

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to marry its Linksys channel partners with an effort to infiltrate the home market, Cisco is offering a new channel initiative in North America for resellers in the home and small office/home office space. Called the Cisco Consumer Channel Network or Cisco CCN, the program will offer resellers the resources, tools and training they… Read more

  • Belt Tightening: Simple Cost-Saving Tips

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    The news out this week is grim. Unemployment has reached a 25-year high and more layoffs are in the offing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average—the barometer of our economic health—continues to drop at record rates. Retailers are reporting the first declines in 20 years and there is news of the three big automakers consolidating to… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Says SMB Loan Repayments on Track

    Jessica Davis

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    Defaults on technology financing deals are on the rise, raising concerns about the ongoing availability of credit for such deals, according to a report, but technology distributors and technology vendors with captive financing arms say credit is still available for qualified businesses. Ingram Micro CEO Greg Spierkel told financial analysts during an earnings call last… Read more

  • Ikon Office to Cut 250 Jobs, Take Charge

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Office equipment distributor Ikon Office Solutions (IKN) said it will cut about 265 jobs in the United States to reduce costs. In a regulatory filing, the company said its board has also approved a plan to reduce the number of its Off-site Managed Services business (LDS) locations in the United States to 47,… Read more