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Cisco Unveils Smart Business Architecture
Cisco Systems is introducing the Smart Business Architecture for Midsize Networks, a series of blueprints designed to simplify solutions for businesses with between 250 and 1,000 users. The launch of the Smart Business Architecture began a year ago when Cisco examined its mid-size business product portfolio and the challenges partners were having in the mid-market,…
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Nokia Enters Netbook Market
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market. Nokia has seen its profit margins drop over the last quarters as handset demand has slumped, and analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin,…
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Google`s Incomplete Channel a Work in Progress
Perhaps nowhere else than the education market does Google Apps enjoy a distinct advantage over Microsoft Exchange—hosted or on-premises—in that it’s free. But free doesn’t always mean superior manageability, and many institutions have discovered provisioning and managing Google e-mail accounts is more than challenging. Data Technique, a solution provider based in Pittsburgh, Kan., partnered with…
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required…
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Smartphone Users Get Bigger Display and Keyboard from Redfly
Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way. Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging technology in 2008, may just have the solution for your customers, and…
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McAfee Snags Cisco Exec to Run Global Channels
McAfee continues to bulk up its channel leadership strength by appointing Cisco veteran Alex Thurber to the post of senior vice president of worldwide channel operations. Thurber, who’s worked for Cisco for the better part of the last decade, succeeds Roger King, former executive vice president of sales, who left McAfee in May. "We are…
