Jessica Davis

Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit sales-including units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry, among others-climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report […]

You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you aren’t reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home. Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refresh cycles, and today’s corporate […]

The PC market is now expected to post positive unit growth in Q4 2009 in a long-awaited turnaround from what have been several quarters of decline. And that will lead to a “healthy market recovery in 2010.”Market research firm Gartner is now forecasting PC unit sales for 2009 to decline by 6 percent to 274 […]

For basketball fans watching tonight’s 2009 NBA Draft live on television to see which team gets Blake Griffin, there’s no tolerance for lost video signals, dropped video or audio or anything else going wrong with the broadcast. For the fifth year in a row, video conferencing managed service provider Glowpoint service will be making sure […]

Intel and Nokia’s announcement this week of a long term technology partnership around mobile devices of the future was long on vision and short on the product details that everyone wanted to hear.Intel and Nokia offered nothing in the form of product direction or timelines beyond a general statement of targeting devices that go beyond […]

The target market for the current generation of netbooks is largely confused about how their new devices differ in functionality from traditional laptop computers. And that makes for a large set of unsatisfied customers.That’s according to a new report from NDP Group, a market research company, that further shows that many consumers who purchased a […]

As chief financial officers scrutinize every item in the budget this year, IT organizations are finding it tougher to sell IT investments to financial executives, even when IT managers are pretty sure the spending will ultimately save the company money.With that in mind, Hewlett-Packard is introducing a new technology in its IT Financial Management business […]

Looking for advice on how to tap into the grant money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package? Ingram Micro has expanded its partnership with The Grants Office, a company that specializes in identifying grants and creating grant submissions, in an effort to help resellers and […]

Resellers and solution providers recognize a competitive threat when they see one. That’s why they ranked Microsoft and its software-as-a-service offering (SAAS) as the biggest competitive threat they face – not any apps from Google.Now managed services platform provider Level Platforms Inc. is looking to help its MSPs take advantage of the opportunities created by […]

Apple Computer has never been known for its strong reseller channel partner program or its efforts to woo the channel with discounts and back-end rebates. But over the years as Apple’s Mac platform has made inroads into small businesses and workgroups within larger enterprises, the channel has come along for the ride, with or without […]