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Channelweb.com checks in on how tech retailers are faring given a rough retail climate to start the year.
Toshiba is preparing to release the TG01, a high-powered touch-screen smartphone and the first device with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.
Mobile unified communications will be a big hit in 2009 and VARs should take notice. Here are 10 attributes of a true mobile UC solution.
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The federal stimulus package is still being tweaked in its final version, but VARs can identify plenty of opportunities already if they know where to look.
[06:03 PM, February 13, 2009]
Seventy-six percent of U.S. organizations will use at least one SaaS-delivered application for business by the end of the year, according to IDC.
[04:13 PM, February 13, 2009]
The economy is down, revenue projections are low and sales figures are in decline. How, in such a bleary economic picture, is a solution provider going to survive, much less grow?
[03:00 PM, February 13, 2009]
Although Microsoft will be opening retail outlets in the near future, its channel partners largely do not see a big conflict with the behemoth's new approach.
[12:11 PM, February 13, 2009]
PC-maker Lenovo is letting go 550 employees in Europe as part of its restructuring strategy.
[11:55 AM, February 13, 2009]
Software giant plans to shift incentives from LARs and direct marketers to VARs to drive sales in the SMB market
[10:03 AM, February 13, 2009]
The distributor combined its OEM and enterprise sales teams into one unit, meaning that solution providers could see some new faces but also have more overall resources available.
[07:09 PM, February 12, 2009]
As credit becomes tighter, VARs are counting on alternative funding sources to help finance deals. In many cases, those lenders provide something that traditional flooring companies or vendor programs can't match.
[03:52 PM, February 12, 2009]
PC processors shipments in the fourth quarter experienced the biggest sequential decline in 13 years.
[10:33 AM, February 12, 2009]
Competitors swap claims over Hewlett-Packard's interest-free leasing plan.
[04:42 PM, February 11, 2009]
Distributor's first quarter not looking rosy, either.
[02:28 PM, February 10, 2009]
President and CEO Paul Otellini calls for $7 billion investment over two years
[10:09 AM, February 10, 2009]
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2009 State of Technology: Peripherals
With a continuing economic downturn expected, it's the box-pushers who sink and the true solution providers who swim -- and thrive.
State of the Market 2009
VARs say global recession, weak consumer spending and the credit crisis all trouble them going into next year. But despite their concerns, solution providers aren't retreating or retrenching.
Products of the Year
Test Center editors made sure each winner had an immediate impact on how the lion's share of solution providers would think about and deliver technology.
State of Technology: Storage
Solution providers remain optimistic about storage growth.
Top 25 Executives
Those executives who shook up the channel -- for better or worse -- in 2008.
Tech Innovators
A new generation of innovators is giving VARs powerful new tools to drive success.
2008 Annual Report Card
The 2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card offers tremendous insight into vendor partners.
2008 CRN Fast Growth 100: Speed Demons
A sluggish economy didn't slow down these engines of growth. In fact, it might have fed them.
2008 Emerging Vendors
Upstart vendors make names for themselves in the channel.
State of Technology: Networking
Solution providers expect to see the gastest revenue growth in VoIP, unified messaging and IP videoconferencing.
The VARBusiness 500
These elite solution providers cleared more than $377.66 billion worldwide gross in 2007.
2008 Channel Champions
CRN's 18th annual Channel Champions awards affirm what many already know: HP is on a roll.
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