Recent Articles
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Hooking Up Retailers With Wireless
Across the United States, retail chains, grocery stores and restaurants are deploying Wi-Fi networks and, in so doing, speeding up customer purchases, improving inventory management and raising employee productivity. Now, for the twist: To do it, most retail businesses are turning to specialized Wi-Fi partners for deployment—partners that have expertise in vertical-market application development—instead of…
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Holidays Are Coming & Reseller News Is Breaking
The holidays approach, but executives keep playing musical chairs and ATI, HP, Microsoft, Netgear and Sun, to name but a few, keep breaking channel news. Changing Places Boeing CEO Leaves & Old HPer Lewis Platt Arrive Ethics scandal and questions linked to Boeing’s defense contracts cost Phil Condit his job as he resigned on December…
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Channel Stocks: Eager for 2004
When IBM Corp. talks, solutions providers listen. During a meeting with analysts last week, IBM CFO John Joyce said businesses are finally ready to take some risks and increase IT spending, particularly on comprehensive solutions, rather than individual point products. Joyce’s comments were first reported by Reuters. IBM’s upbeat mood helped the Ziff Davis Channel…
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Microsoft to Junk Flagship Products, Cites Java Settlement
Microsoft will phase out a slew of products as of December 15, citing its 2001 legal settlement with Sun Microsystems over Java as the impetus. Among the products that Microsoft will no longer make available to customers through any of the Microsoft’s sales channels are Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and a number of versions…
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Roaming Bedevils Wi-Fi Value-Add Services
San Jose, CA–The future of value-add services in the Wi-Fi space can be summed up in one word: Roaming. Without roaming agreements to simplify the billing and log-on procedures that now complicate the use of Wi-Fi hotspots, user adoption cannot achieve the kind of critical mass needed to make Wi-Fi value-added services truly profitable. That…
