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Job Market Crisis: What You Said
The preliminary results of the Channel Insider/Amazon Consulting Channel Talent Study produced some not so shocking results: Vendors and solution providers agree that finding the right technology and sales talent and pay are the two top challenges in the current job market. While the study is still ongoing, the preliminary results have garnered some interesting…
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RIM Unveils Spate of Consumer Application Deals
TORONTO (Reuters) – A day after announcing a flip-phone version of its popular BlackBerry Pearl, Research In Motion unveiled a spate of consumer-related partnerships on Thursday, continuing its push to capture mainstream customers. RIM said it would partner with Ticketmaster to let BlackBerry users search, browse and buy tickets to entertainment and sporting events. The…
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Five Ways to Raise Green IT Awareness
How green have we become? Some would say not enough, and they would be right. Still, awareness of the impact humans have on the environment has grown steadily in recent years, to the point where both major-party presidential candidates this year have included climate change in their platforms. In the technology realm, buyers are thinking…
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Microsoft Wants Evolutionary Partners
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Julie Bennani, vice president of Global Partner Programs, identified not only how the partner program was going to evolve over the next several years, but also why it must evolve. Many of the solution providers—and even some of the other vendors—I talked with at the conference thought Microsoft was…
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Mobile Firms like Cash from Data, but Worry about Devices
By David Lawsky SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. mobile phone companies have begun to see substantial returns from delivering data and not just voice, fueled by greater openness on their networks, industry leaders said on Wednesday. But top executives of three of the nation’s four largest mobile carriers also said they are still worried by…
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Ikon Office to Cut 250 Jobs, Take Charge
(Reuters) – Office equipment distributor Ikon Office Solutions (IKN) said it will cut about 265 jobs in the United States to reduce costs. In a regulatory filing, the company said its board has also approved a plan to reduce the number of its Off-site Managed Services business (LDS) locations in the United States to 47,…