Technology
Hardware
Apple reignites race for the digital living room
Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010Apple is aiming to get its brand firmly entrenched in the living room with a slimmed down and more attractively priced TV product that allows users to hire and watch...
iPad has tablet market sewn up through 2012
Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010Despite a flood of rival products in development, including offerings from Dell, Lenovo, Cisco's Cius and HP's webOS and Microsoft Windows tablets, Apple's iPad is unlikely to face a viable competitor before...
Headsets a product to sell alongside UC
Posted: Mon, 23 Aug 2010Those resellers looking to add some margin to a unified comms sale are being urged to put headsets into their product portfolios.Plantronics director and general manager of UK & Ireland...
Print and be damned: huge amounts of paper still wasted in offices
Posted: Fri, 13 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnes Almost 70% of paper sheets printed by office workers in a year are "wasted or unnecessary", according to a report commissioned by Kyocera. The Rethinking Printing Report...
Memory shortages on the cards, warns iSuppli
Posted: Tue, 10 Aug 2010Analysts have raised the spectre of DRAM shortages in the second half of this year, predicting a boom in demand that will put pressure on manufacturing facilities migrating to new production...
Growth stalled: Q2 netbook sales fall to the same level as a year ago
Posted: Fri, 06 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnes Second quarter UK netbook sales through distribution returned to the same level as last year suggesting the market has reached maturity after peaking in the last quarter...
Network & Communications
Outsourcery, Nokia launch OCS scheme
Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010Hosted IT services, UC specialist and Microsoft Gold partner Outsourcery has hooked up with Nokia through its InPartnership programme to push sales of the mobile version of Microsoft OCS. The first...
Network neglect holds back IT innovation
Posted: Wed, 01 Sep 2010A study of 235 organisations carried out on behalf of networking and communications integrator Kcom has found that network management is too often overlooked during IT strategy planning, with the...
In-depth: Slow burning Cisco UCS gains traction at last
Posted: Thu, 26 Aug 2010Speaking on a recent conference call detailing Cisco's most recent set of results, CEO John Chambers said that it had now sold 1,700 installations of its much-vaunted Unified Compute System (UCS),...
Headsets a product to sell alongside UC
Posted: Mon, 23 Aug 2010Those resellers looking to add some margin to a unified comms sale are being urged to put headsets into their product portfolios.Plantronics director and general manager of UK & Ireland...
Viatel joins BT shared broadband trials
Posted: Wed, 18 Aug 2010Business comms provider Viatel is to participate in trials of BT Wholesale's Real Time Quality of Service (QoS) over shared broadband service, in the hope of fast-tracking business relevant comms...
Social media reaching mass channel audience
Posted: Mon, 16 Aug 2010After much encouragement from the vendor community, resellers in the communications channel are beginning to take up social media platforms in their businesses in large numbers, according to research conducted...
Security
Symantec and resellers to play data doctors in IT clinics
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010Symantec has opened the doors on a small business IT clinic that will provide the vendor and its resellers with a chance to advise SMEs on security and data protection.The...
SMEs viewing PCI compliance as a competitive sales tool
Posted: Thu, 19 Aug 2010There could be a significant silver lining for those smaller retailers and e-commerce operations that make the effort to become PCI compliant with customers more likely to shop with those...
High-street retailers struggling to be ready for PCI
Posted: Tue, 17 Aug 2010With the deadline looming for large retailers to get behind the PCI rules governing the way high-street shops look after credit card data many are not ready for to be...
New security metric builds case for investment
Posted: Fri, 13 Aug 2010by Warwick Ashford Security and data protection are consistently under-funded and under-staffed any potential investment has to be justified and pass budget approval hurdles, which typically require IT managers to show...
Sophos adds endpoint security to MSP programme
Posted: Wed, 11 Aug 2010Security vendor Sophos has announced the initial availability of an endpoint security as a service offering and formalised its managed service provider (MSP) programme. Initially available at launch via Sophos' four Service Partner Alliance (SPA) partners,...
Malware production surged in first half of 2010 says McAfee
Posted: Tue, 10 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnes Whatever happens to the wider economy going forward, the IT security industry is likely to stay busy as the threat from malware continues to grow with ten...
Software
Windows 7 migration skills gap opening up
Posted: Thu, 26 Aug 2010The migration to Windows 7 is going to produce a skills shortage of specialists able to transition firms from XP and 2000 versions to the latest Microsoft OS. The warning comes...
Google hit by Oracle lawsuit and 'sell out' charges
Posted: Fri, 13 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnesOracle has launched a legal action against Google for allegedly infringing patents on Java technology in its Android operating system, heaping further pressure on the search giant as...
Micro Focus shares fall after warning on growth
Posted: Thu, 12 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnes Shares in Micro Focus International declined by more than a quarter after it admitted revenue growth for its 2011 financial year would be weaker than expected in...
Salesforce.com pays up in MS patent settlement
Posted: Thu, 05 Aug 2010Microsoft and Salesforce.com have put aside their differences and settled their three month patent spat, with Salesforce.com made to pay licensing fees over nine patents it stood accused of violating. The IP in...
Top UK software companies taking the SaaS route
Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2010By Billy MacInnes The majority of the top 25 UK software companies are already on the road towards delivering a software as a service (SaaS) model but some of them...
FAST kicks off summer anti-piracy campaign
Posted: Fri, 30 Jul 2010The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has kicked off a joint initiative with Trading Standards in various locations across the UK to launch a summer education campaign against unlicensed software.FAST...
Storage
Majority of end-users misuse backup, recovery tools
Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2010A majority of enterprise customers are failing to follow advice surrounding information management practice, with many improperly using backup and recovery software packages, according to new information from security specialist Symantec....
Business sales marching up the hill
Posted: Fri, 30 Apr 2010GfK's month-on-month market comparison shows climb out of decline. Carl West explains the figures With most year-on-year sales comparisons not truly indicating a return to the more buoyant levels of...
In-depth: 2010 component review - a turning point
Posted: Tue, 27 Apr 2010New technologies and components could transform the fortunes of the channel this year, writes Cliff CheethamThere's no denying that 2009 was a tough year for everyone, with a global economic...
HP marks XP birthday with search for ultimate challenge
Posted: Fri, 23 Apr 2010There are a fair few anniversaries taking pleace this year in the storage world as vendors and technologies hit particular milestones. Among the list is the tenth birthday of Hewlett-Packard...
Buoyant first quarter builds channel optimism
Posted: Fri, 09 Apr 2010Opinion is divided over whether or not the recession is over, but the outlook for 2010 is positive overall, writes Steve MoyesThe first quarter of 2010 has come to a...
Emulex welcomes conviction of storage counterfeiters
Posted: Tue, 23 Mar 2010Storage player Emulex has welcomed the conviction of a couple of counterfeiters that had been actively ripping off several brands.By refurbishing recycled products and then putting forged trademarks on them...