Adtran’s latest routers have the moxie to push Cisco from the must buy list.
With much fanfare Google today announced that a Nexus One smartphone is now available directly from Google. On the face of it, this would seem like the opening of the smartphone market, much to the potential benefit of solution providers in the channel.
But while the Nexus One smartphone essentially adds another supplier of phones made [...]
One of my favorite pieces of software is from Zimbra (or Yahoo! Zimbra as they call it in some circles), a company that offers a mixture of open source and commercial email products. Zimbra’s desktop is one of my favorite open source products available today- with it I can access my email and schedules from [...]
Over the weekend the news about Google’s direct marketed phone, the Nexus One, has been released. Apparently Google has released the phone into the capable hands of their employee base (who quickly started tweeting about the phone’s awesomeness) in order to review the custom made (Android based) software that will run the phone. Are we looking at a 2 Qtr Launch in store for us?
This year gave us some strong phones platforms, the iPhone 3Gs, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile 6.5, and Android. The platforms have more influence then the hardware they run on in the larger scheme of things.
Lately it seems the net is ablaze about Verizon Wireless’ inclusion of a $15 dollar fee for Exchange access. This type of “nickel and diming” may be upsetting to a consumer but it seems to me on the B2B front its business as usual.
Nimsoft has given solution providers in the channel a tool that may finally allow many of them to start making some money off of cloud computing.
IT organizations looking to embrace cloud computing require tools that allow them to monitor the ongoing performance of a cloud computing service. To fulfill that need, Nimsoft has expanded the [...]
A flexible unified communications service for collaborative workgroups that can share files, import and export contacts and calendars from a wide variety of data sources and Web services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google’s Gmail. Entirely open-source based.
Price: Begins at $5/user/month for hosted version; $1095/yr for 25 users for server-based software version
Requirements: Works on a wide [...]
As we hear news today that Twitter is in talks with Both Google and Microsoft in licensing the free services content for inclusion in both companies search engines, one has to wonder if the idea of a Google Wave integration into the service (appraised at $1 Billion dollars) is in the work as well.
The synergies [...]
As part of an ongoing effort to simplify the management of IT, ManageEngine has inked a technology alliance with Riverbed Technology.
Under the terms of the alliance, solution providers should find it easier to manage Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization appliances using ManageEngine’s Netflow Analyzer software running on a dedicated server.
ManageEngine, which claims to now [...]

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