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Former Azzurri boss takes mentoring role at Intrinsic
Former Azzurri CEO Gordon Matthew, who stepped down from the role in 2010, has popped up at UC and cloud services provider Intrinsic Technology as non-executive chairman. Matthew will take responsibility for supporting the reseller's senior manag... News | 18 Oct 2011
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ShoreTel recruits telco veteran to run EMEA
ShoreTel has recruited a former Vodafone executive and telco veteran to run its EMEA operations with a brief of driving growth and the wider adoption of integrated IP comms. Adrian Hipkiss, a former sales director of unified communications at Vodafo... News | 18 Oct 2011
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Nortel pension deficit appeal rejected
An appeal against last December's landmark rulingthat Nortel was to be held liable for a £2.1bn hole in its UK pension scheme has today been thrown out in an apparent victory for The Pensions Regulator and many thousands of ex-Nortel workers in... News | 14 Oct 2011
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Alcatel-Lucent on verge of Genesys sale
Alcatel-Lucent is understoodon the verge of selling its Genesys contact centre software unit to private equity investors Permira, according to the Financial Times. The unit sits within Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise division, a sale of which was discuss... News | 13 Oct 2011
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Avaya UK boss to take channel back to basics
Avaya's new UK and Ireland managing director Andrew Sheppard, who was named as Lee Shorten's replacement during the summer, hassaid he will adopt a"back to basics" approach in his dealings with the channel that will see the comms vendoremph... News | 12 Oct 2011
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Lack of confidence in small players benefits Westcon, Logicalis
Datatec, the parent of networking and convergence distie Westcon, services house Logicalis and support specialist Intact, has suggested that a lack of business confidence in smaller channeloutfits has played into its hands in recent months. Chief exe... News | 12 Oct 2011
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Meru Networks boss steps down as sales rise 20%
Meru Networks president and CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima is to step down from the wireless infrastructure vendor, with new management to be phased in by April 2012. Abu-Hakima, who joined Meru in2005, said he felt he had achieved his "personal and corpor... News | 07 Oct 2011
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Avisen reverses into data management outfit 1Spatial
Avisen has kicked offits rebooted buy-and-build drive with the announcement that it is to perform a reverse takeover of Cambridge-basedlocation data management specialist 1Spatial, with the Avisen name to disappear post merger. The AIM-listed firm ni... News | 07 Oct 2011
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Leaked Cisco memo predicts bleak HP channel future
In an internal memo leaked to US channel press, Cisco has slammed its rival HP, saying that the possible removal of its PC business from the equation will hobble its rival's ability to compete effectively in the channel. The crux of Cisco's attack ce... News | 05 Oct 2011
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TalkTalk Business buys comms reseller Greystone
TalkTalk Business has picked up Cheshire-based business comms reseller and partnerGreystone Telecom for an undisclosed sum. The family-owned company, which provides comms and network servicesto both customers anda small number of agents and consultan... News | 05 Oct 2011