Report: Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft’s US$44.6B buyout bid
A search advertising partnership with rival Google may be an alternative for Yahoo
Dell moves AMD consumer PCs offline to retail
The vendor will focus instead on offering Intel-based PCs online
SAS revs data-mining, forecasting tools
A greater leap in functionality than was seen in previous revisions promised
Positioning Lotus
Mike Rhodin introduces many new products and strategic shifts for the channel
Bringing the print shop in house
Affordability is playing a key role in the growth of the multi-function printer market – and its attracting a new breed of customers that the channel already has contacts with
Lotus tries to build new SMB Foundations
With the Orlando Philharmonic playing Fanfare for the common man in the background, Mike Rhodin, general manager of IBM Lotus Software, announced the division’s biggest channel move to date.
2008 predictions
The senior editorial staff at IT World Canada, publishers of CDN, were locked in a room with a crystal ball and prognosticated on what new trends, issues and acquisitions will make headlines in 2008.
Predicting Canada’s technology future
IDC Canada shares its crystal ball outlook for the Canadian ICT sector, including why vendors need to show the channel more love
System fine tuning for the IT novice
Symantec’s Norton SystemWorks Standard Edition simplifies system maintenance – once you get it installed
This notebook is all business
The Compaq 6910p is a reliable business notebook, but some bells and whistles would have been nice
Sun/Intel alliance driving system builder differentiation
The two vendors unveil the latest fruit of their joint collaboration
Wedge Networks wants more businesses to BeSecure
Security appliance vendor looking to expand partnerships
Do not take the skills shortage seriously, not yet
The IT skills shortage is a developing problem, not a full-blown crisis
OpenID gains support for online single sign-on
IBM, VeriSign and the major search firms are all backing a framework that would ease the user name and password hassles
Is it worth upgrading to Windows Server 2008?
Servers, typically, are not considered sexy. To users, they’re plumbing. To corporate IT, they’re critical parts of the infrastructure. And to VARs, ISVs and resellers, they’re delightful sources of service revenue.