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  • New Bluetooth Protocol Saves PC Data to PDAs, Phones

    New Bluetooth Protocol Saves PC Data to PDAs, Phones

    Bryan Gardiner

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    Transferring Internet content from a PC to your cell phone or PDA is about to get a whole lot easier. On Thursday, at Ziff Davis’ Digital Life consumer electronics trade show in New York, the Bluetooth SIG—a group that develops and approves various wireless technologies for the specification—announced the release of a new version of… Read more

  • Websense Aims to Complete Channel Transition Next Year

    Websense Aims to Complete Channel Transition Next Year

    Pedro Pereira

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    Security vendor Websense has launched an aggressive partner recruitment drive and embraced two-tier distribution in its efforts to implement an all-channel sales strategy. The San Diego-based company has forged its first distribution partnership in North America with Ingram Micro, of Santa Ana, Calif., the world’s largest IT products distributor. Websense aims to move all its… Read more

  • Marwaha to Merge High-Volume Process with IBM’s High-Value Channel

    Marwaha to Merge High-Volume Process with IBM’s High-Value Channel

    John Hazard

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    On paper the two channels are contrasts. IBM’s practice of deep integration and customization for high-end products; Lenovo Group’s fast and furious pace to mass market PCs to the world. But IBM, partners and analysts claim both methods have a place in the same family and that Ravindra “Ravi” Marwaha, who has been chosen to… Read more

  • Libya to Buy 1.2M Linux Laptops?

    Libya to Buy 1.2M Linux Laptops?

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Libya reportedly plans to purchase 1.2 million low-cost laptops, after signing a deal recently. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) nonprofit association, told the New York Times that the deal had been reached in Libya on Oct. 10. Libya will pay the OLPC $250 million, according to the Times.… Read more

  • Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista

    Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista

    Darryl K. Taft

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    NEW YORK—If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, don’t wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here. G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the company’s plans… Read more

  • How to Fight Managed Services Commoditization

    How to Fight Managed Services Commoditization

    Pedro Pereira

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    As distributors carve a role for themselves in the smoldering managed services space, some proponents of the model have reason to worry. Those proponents include the reasonably exclusive group of solution providers that since the turn of the millennium has negotiated the frustration and reaped the advantages of pioneering a business model. On the one… Read more