Monthly Archives: April 2009
Japan to Foreign Workers: ‘Here’s Money, Now Go Away’
Oh, Japan. How you make Americans cringe with shame in your protectionist ways.Descendants of Japanese emigrants from Latin and South America, namely Brazil, are...
Report Describes Growing Enterprise Use of Employee-Supplied Smartphones
Aberdeen Group has released a new report regarding the trend of employee-purchased devices being brought into the enterprise. While IT managers have long fought...
IT Distributor Avnet’s CEO: Software, Solutions Sales Stabilize
Avnet's Chief Operating Officer Rick Hamada believes the impact of Oracle's (NASDAQ:ORCL) acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) will likely have a further positive effect...
AMD Moves Up Istanbul Release to June
The U.S. government has been very good to AMD in the past, using AMD's 64-bit Opteron chip in many high-performance computing deployments funded from...
MSPAlliance, MSP Partners Clash over Accreditation
MSP Partners-an organization founded by Level Platforms, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Ingram Micro and other vendors-recently announced that it will partner with CompTIA and Everything...
Half of Solution Providers Regret Joining Vendor Partner Programs
More than $500 billion in IT goods and services is sold and delivered through North America channel partners-solution providers, managed service providers, systems integrators,...
Scenes from the RSA Security Conference
The RSA Conference in San Francisoc this week drew thousands of attendees and dozens of exhibiting vendors. There were few surprises in terms of...
Apple Reaches 1 Billion App Store Downloads Milestone
The 1 billionth application was downloaded from the Apple App Store on April 23. The company did not announce the name of that lucky...
Security Vendors Keep Head in the Cloud at RSA Conference
Every RSA Conference has a popular buzzword or phrase. This year it was "the cloud."In one way or another, vendors were pushing their answer...
Heroku Launches New Cloud Hosting Service
Heroku has announced the availability of the commercial version of its new cloud hosting and deployment service.Heroku's provisionless Web hosting service provides developers with...