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Latest Hardware Headlines

  • Government sets sights on IT carbon neutrality
    In a move that has the potential to put help make the green datacentre debate back under the spotlight the government has announced plans to make its IT carbon neutral.
  • Telcos set sights on notebook sector
    For a long time traditional retailers and online resellers have almost exclusively enjoyed the consumer notebook boom, with relatively little competition from other channels, but that is about to change
  • Brother launches SME leasing
    Brother has unveiled a leasing sales model to revitalise the printer market and tap into the current demand in the SME market for pay-as-you-go economic models.
  • Lexmark returns to C2000 after six year break
    More than six years after splitting with Computer 2000 Lexmark has reprised the relationship giving the printer vendor access to the thousands of SME focused resellers that the broadline distributor deals with.
  • Semiconductors put in strong May performance
    Demand drives healhty growth in seminconductors for the month of May

Latest Software Headlines

  • FAST spearheads piracy crackdown
    Amid a glut of survets and predictions on the future of software piracy, industry bodies plan to fight the pirates.
  • Oracle enhances BI strategy
    Oracle has made a couple of moves to enhance its business intelligence offering after releasing the next generation of its management system as well as outlining the road map of post acquisition Hyperion products.
  • FAST teams up with Trading Standards
    Building on its previous campaign to enforce intellectual property rights the Federation Against Software Theft has teamed up with Trading Standards in Cardiff to target businesses in the Welsh capital.
  • Oracle drops BEA kit
    Oracle has unveiled plans to axe BEA's WebLogic and AquaLogic products as it integrates the enterprise software vendor.
  • IBM courts ISVs to enhance infrastructure solution play
    Following two years of intense reseller recruitment in the UK, IBM is again turning its attention to independent software vendors (ISVs) in the mid-market with the aim of building bridges between different partner types.

Latest Network Headlines

  • Apple 3Gs find a ready market
    Availability of business applications helps drive rapid take-up of the latest generation of iPhone
  • Colt names NGN suppliers
    Colt Telecommunications has named Nokia Siemens Networks and Sonus Networks as key suppliers to the first stage of its next generation network (NGN) project.
  • Channel looks to iPhone halo effect
    Could Apple's latest device prove to be an effective Blackberry-killer among corporate end-users?
  • Analysts predict mobile broadband squeeze
    The struggling mobile base station market is set for a renaissance over the next three years, according to a report released by business intelligence consultancy Informa Telecoms & Media.
  • Channel hits back over bandwidth concerns
    Warnings that remote services providers keen to target the SME market might be unable to fulfil demand unless faster, reliable broadband is made an urgent priority have received a sceptical response.

Latest Storage Headlines

Latest Security Headlines

  • Sophos reaches out to Symantec resellers
    In a rather predictable but understandable move Sophos has reacted to the unrest caused by reports of a change in strategy at Symantec by calling on resellers to shift allegiance.
  • Symantec causes unrest with direct strategy talk
    Symantec has outraged its US reseller partners after deciding to take business with large accounts direct.
  • Netasq highlights UTM bottleneck risk
    Unified Threat Management specialist Netasq has expanded its portfolio as part of its ambitions to increase its share of the UK market warning that some products in the market are failing to cope with user demands.
  • Secerno to beef up channel with VC cash
    UK-based database security specialist Secerno plans to use a venture capitalist cash injection to expand its channel operations across Europe and the US.
  • Clearswift outlines channel plans
    With just one week under his belt in the position, Paul Turner CEO at Clearswift has outlined the input he intends to make to the content checking specialist’s channel.
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