Recent Articles
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Small Business IT Budgets Drop, but Some Spending Remains
Small business and midmarket business are decreasing their operating IT budgets by 4 percent in 2009 and their IT capital budgets by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2009, even as they strive for the most part to keep compensation and headcount about the same. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which…
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Smartphone Sales Skyrocket
By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) – Global cellphone sales continued to fall in April-June, but at a slower pace than in the previous three months as falling prices boosted demand for advanced smartphones, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. Total cellphone sales fell 6 percent in the second quarter as recession-hit consumers…
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Redefining the Restaurant Experience
I had heard somewhere that the Olive Garden or Applebee’s (doesn’t really matter) revolutionized “fine dining” by obliterating the concept of “seatings,” the time period that restaurateurs would plan to serve the bulk of their customers. By turning tables over rapidly through fast food service, such eateries replaced fine dining with “casual dining.” In the…
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The Small VAR’s Path to Health Care Economic Stimulus Funds
For solution providers and resellers looking to take advantage of the approximately $17 billion in economic stimulus funds that will be available to help physicians purchase and implement electronic medical records, the road hasn’t necessarily been an easy one. There are plenty of vendors that offer EMR technology, but VARs have complained that those vendors…
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Motorola Channel Chief Calls on VARs to Get More Competitive
Against a backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon landings, Motorola’s Janet Schijns gave solution providers at the CompTIA Breakaway conference a history lesson about the real purpose behind President John Kennedy’s space challenge. In the early 1960s, the United States was in a pitch battle with the Soviet Union for political, military and technology domination.…