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Apple iPad 2 Comes to Select Toys R Us Stores
Barbies, Matchbox cars, Legos and… high-end tablet computers? Apple broadened its channels for iPad 2 distribution again this week by introducing the popular tablet for sales at select Toys R Us stores. Also available at big box retailer Best Buy and through Apple’s stores and Website, the toy store joins the exclusive list of vendors…
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McAfee Enhances Network Security Platform
Security specialist McAfee announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines. In addition, real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network…
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Small Business, Big Resources: The Power of Community
If you were dropped on an island with 10 other people, which would you consider the best option? Go-it-alone to get shelter and food; or Work with the 10 others for the potential benefit of everyone. Most would consider Option 2 the favorable route. But many in the IT industry continue to follow the less…
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Freedom to Focus
Freedom to Focus As an owner-operator of a small channel business, it can sometimes be hard to see the forest from the trees. Owners can get so mired in the details of running a business and keeping the lights on that they’re unable to work on those revolutionary product and service ideas that have been…
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Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Members Selling Cloud
If you haven’t already noticed, the big word in the tech industry this year is "cloud." That was certainly in evidence this week at both the Synnex Varnex community event in Boston and at Ingram Micro’s VTN invitational community event in Chicago. These two distributors laid out cloud plans with an eye to becoming an…
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Synnex Adds Managed Services Suite to Offerings
Although cloud overshadowed all other IT topics at Synnex’s first Varnex community conference of the year, the company also gave solution providers and managed service providers new tools with the launch of suite of managed services through its Technology Solutions Division. The division’s OnDemand IT group is now providing a suite of managed services aimed…
