The persuader
After encouraging businesses as a diplomat to invest in Canada, John Tennant now lobbies them to invest in three Ontario municipalities
Suite deal for system builders
System builders who use Intel motherboards will now be able to offer the latest version of Norton’s Internet Security suite to tempt buyers
Worm attacks should worry system builders
A blog by Frankie Wong of Elco Systems
LiveCycle now a ‘platform’
Adobe Systems’ PDF and e-forms document workflow group of applications have been overhauled and changed into what the company calls a platform.
Paint Shop Losing Exposure
Canadian market share dropping as Corel releases new version
VAR Bits
Symantec/Veritas bundles Cupertino, calif. — Symantec has launched the Symantec Email Security and Availability solution, the first…
Premium Notebooks: Objects of desire
Buyers want them and resellers want to push them. Top-line laptops are filled with features that are enticing, and more are coming this fall. But according to one manufacturer, VARs have to up their selling skills if they want to do well with these products
Dousing a smoking problem
A cigar company was running a risk with the way it stored its tape backups. It took a VAR to clear the air with its online recovery service
Trends
Another standard battle coming Toronto — DVD writer standards have just been settled with the adoption of…
Reseller revival
B.C. solution provider tries to rebuild his company by going back to his roots in infrastructure software solutions
People
Zotob author charged in Morocco Abingdon, U.K. — SophosLabs, Sophos’s global network of virus, spyware and spam…
Wringing opportunities from wikis
Entrepreneurs are eying a collaboration tool that is quietly infiltrating many organizations
Protecting your assets securely
The difference between secured and unsecured debt. A lesson the channel should learn
One crazy summer
This summer season has been one of the busiest to date in the IT industry
Inside Intel’s new research projects
The chipmaker is working on sensor networks, advanced search software and ways to wirelessly detect network devices