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  • Channel Program to Support QuickBooks Enterprise

    Channel Program to Support QuickBooks Enterprise

    John Hazard

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    Intuit has launched an enterprise channel program to support its enterprise solutions and extend their longevity as its customer base, mostly small and midsize businesses, become small and midsize enterprises. “They’re growing with the companies they have,” said Sanjeev Aggarwal, a senior analyst at Yankee Group, in Boston, referring to the SMBs that started using… Read more

  • Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista

    Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista

    Ryan Naraine

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    A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits. Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta 2 as part of a larger plan to make it more difficult to automate attacks against the operating system. “Not… Read more

  • Cittio Uses Slingshot Approach to Managed Services

    Cittio Uses Slingshot Approach to Managed Services

    Pedro Pereira

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    The transition to managed services can prove costly, time-consuming and frustrating for the average channel company. Just ask Sean McTaggart, president of Triline Solutions in Holland, Mich., which invested upward of $70,000 to make the transition. About $50,000 paid for the technology and the rest went toward staff hours to make it all happen, McTaggart… Read more

  • Dell’s New XPS Notebooks Built to Entertain

    Dell’s New XPS Notebooks Built to Entertain

    Mark Hachman

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    Dell held a press conference in Los Angeles to announce its next-generation XPS PCs, which will include a “mobile entertainment device” that uses aspects of notebook and desktop design. The new mobile Dell XPS M2010 will use articulated hinges to allow the device to fold up and be taken on the road. The Dell XPS… Read more

  • Channel Chiefs Need to Watch More Football

    Channel Chiefs Need to Watch More Football

    Michael Vizard

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    Watching various vendors put their channel programs together has always been reminiscent of watching professional football coaches build their offenses. In the National Football League, coaches tend to prefer to either pass the ball or run the ball. Passing the ball a lot is generally referred to as a West Coast offensive scheme, because it… Read more

  • Dell to Open Storefronts in Dallas, New York State

    Dell to Open Storefronts in Dallas, New York State

    John G. Spooner

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    Dell is opening a pair of storefronts this summer and fall, in Dallas and West Nyack, N.Y., as part of a pilot program to extend outreach to consumer and small-business buyers, the company confirmed May 23. But the outlets will carry no inventory and no service components, leaving the direct model king, the PC and… Read more