HP battles celebrity status
Carly Fiorina’s memoir will put her former company in an unwanted spotlight, briefly casting a shadow over Mark Hurd’s achievements
Cisco and Microsoft join forces
The two companies forge ahead with interoperability plan and Cisco unveils a master specialization brand for its channel partners in the security realm
Nortel fosters strategy to attack SMB market
In a bid to help its VARs sell IP-based solutions to small and medium-sized companies, Nortel Networks…
Synnex Canada to push solutions
Determined to broaden the services it offers, Synnex Canada has opened a technology solutions division to go…
Ottawa backs down again
Reverse auctions are gone, says Public Works minister. Meanwhile, confusion reigns over the proposed printer buying policy
The mediator
Access Distribution’s chief executive is happiest being in the middle of the vendor-channel supply chain
In Goodwin’s hands
Cisco’s new channel czar outlines the opportunities with SONA and Linksys
Concept PCs
Personal computers and notebooks are breaking ground in style and concept with recent additions from Acer and Lenovo
managed service providers: A beacon to VARs?
The opportunity to remotely manage customers’ systems is a tempting service for many resellers
Making a referral
When a developer decided to get out of programming it asked an ex-employee to help a client, leading to a successful partnership between a VAR and a non-profit agency
Trends
CIOs in high demand Toronto — Nine per cent of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed for the…
A young team takes to the field
Specialized consumables distributor Team Tek hopes to score against broadline competition
People
Microsoft Research hires Canadian Redmond, Wash. — Bill Buxton, a Toronto-based computer scientist and designer specializing in…
Locked addresses
New ways to get rid of useless spam and help improve doing business online
Technology 2.0 has gone amuck
The urge to label everything 2.0 is revising our perception of progress