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
Microsoft dealt leadership blows
The Canadian subsidiary looses its highest profile executive and its current president within days of each other
RIM hopes to bury patent dispute soon
Next month a judge will receive final written arguments in the four-year-old case
Avnet pushes partners towards growth areas
Value-added distributor urges partners to go after virtualization, server consolidation and storage area networks as ways to increase income
3Com updates its channel program
Changes will help partners be more profitable, says company spokesman
Cisco introduces Lifecycle Solutions
Networking giant wants partners to adopt a six-step services program to build up professional services
HP CEO warns VARs
Mark Hurd says the company is growing tired of resellers who tinker with its branded PCs. He also wants to usher in a new printing strategy for the company, based on a pay-per-page model