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Communications Company Taps Solution Provider for Towering Project
Mobilitie Partners isn’t in the real-estate leasing business, but when the company hired The MASYC Group for an ERP implementation, the integrator’s expertise in real-estate solutions was a big plus. That’s because, when you think of it, Mobilitie’s business isn’t all that different from your typical real-estate leaser, except that its tenants take up less…
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Dell Takes Direct Managed Services to New York
Dell has unveiled plans to bring its direct managed services offering to the New York metropolitan area and has also said it is eliminating the dollar requirement for managed services deal registration, which had previously been set at $50,000. The PC maker sent a letter to New York metropolitan partners–both certified MSP partners as well…
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Can MSI Blow Away the Atom Competition with the Wind Notebook?
Mini notebook computers have been on the market for some time, but most users have found those diminutive systems a collection of compromises. For example, when portability reigns supreme, users would expect to give up battery life, comfortable keyboards, big screens and so on. Manufacturers had created what amounted to a Catch-22 situation with their…
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Five Ways to Raise Green IT Awareness
How green have we become? Some would say not enough, and they would be right. Still, awareness of the impact humans have on the environment has grown steadily in recent years, to the point where both major-party presidential candidates this year have included climate change in their platforms. In the technology realm, buyers are thinking…
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Microsoft Wants Evolutionary Partners
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Julie Bennani, vice president of Global Partner Programs, identified not only how the partner program was going to evolve over the next several years, but also why it must evolve. Many of the solution providers—and even some of the other vendors—I talked with at the conference thought Microsoft was…
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Ikon Office to Cut 250 Jobs, Take Charge
(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,…
