Recent Articles
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Cisco Looks to Boost Profits for Resellers Serving Small Business
Looking to improve its relationships with channel partners that serve the small business market, Cisco this week has announced a new partner profitability framework that enhances several financial benefits to better serve the needs of smaller channel partners, plus a new unified threat management device and an improved entry-level unified communications system. The moves come…
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Nokia Unveils First Linux Phone
By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s largest handset maker, Nokia unveiled on Thursday its first phone running on Linux software, aiming at improving its offering at the top end of the market. The focus of cell phone business has shifted to services and software following Apple and Google’s entrances to…
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Sharp Plans Device Between Netbook and Smart Phone
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Sharp Corp said it plans to launch a paperback-sized mini mobile PC that features a quick start-up time, touch-screen display and full keyboard, targeting niche demand between smartphones and netbooks. Smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone, pack many computer functions in regular cellphones, and netbooks are smaller and cheaper than regular notebook…
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required…
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Smartphone Users Get Bigger Display and Keyboard from Redfly
Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way. Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging technology in 2008, may just have the solution for your customers, and…
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Acer Releases Nettop for Business, Lenovo Offers Home Nettop
Acer and Lenovo both introduced new nettop PCs this week, with Acer’s aimed at business users and sold through the company’s reseller channel and Lenovo’s aimed at the digital home with Nvidia-based graphics capabilities onboard enabling HD video. The nettops from both companies, priced in the sub-$400 range, are built with Intel Atom processors. They…
