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Microsoft Intros Quick-Ramp for Services Partners, Consultants on Virtualization, UC
Microsoft is rolling out a series of "Services Ready" offerings to its top services reseller channel partners to help them get up to speed quickly on technologies such as virtualization, unified communications and desktop deployment. The new services, unveiled yesterday, will cost, however. Partners will spend $20,000 per technology services offering. But Microsoft contends the…
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More Virulent Smartphone Malware on the Horizon
More virulent, stealthy and voluminous malware for smartphones such as the Apple iPhone, BlackBerrys, Google Android and devices running the Microsoft Mobile is coming as these platforms become more open to application developers, says Eugene Kaspersky, the chief executive and founder of anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab. In a meeting at the RSA Conference, Kaspersky says…
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Google Unveils New Search Tools
Google’s latest experimental additions to its search tools include "Similar Images" and a "Google News Timeline," but it seems there are still a few kinks to work out. Both Similar Images and Google News Timeline were introduced by the search giant yesterday as part of its growing online Labs project, in which users can take…
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Weak Printer and Supplies Sales Drag on Lexmark Revenues
Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) announced this morning a first-quarter revenue decline of 20 percent compared with the same period last year, citing weak global economic conditions as they relate to demand for both printers and supplies. First-quarter revenue fell to $944 million, compared with revenue of $1.18 billion during the same period last year. The company…
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MSPAlliance, MSP Partners Clash over Accreditation
A feud, of sorts, is brewing between two of the channel’s largest associations of managed service providers—the MSPAlliance and MSP Partners—over which organization is best positioned to deliver training and certification to providers in the burgeoning managed services marketplace. MSP Partners—an organization founded by Level Platforms, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Ingram Micro and other vendors—recently announced…
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HP Gives Incentives to New Business Class Consultants
To take advantage of the BCC offer, partners register eligible volume hardware sales with a commitment to providing specific value-add services through the HP deal registration tool. "We’ve been looking for ways to offer growth opportunities to partners and get them to invest in HP solutions across our portfolio," says Tom LaRocca, vice president, marketing…