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Our list of the most innovative executives of the year spotlights the people that are pushing the envelope with new products and channel programs to bring solution providers to new heights.

Find out which executives made the grade and held their own, despite the great IT downturn of 2009.

Most everyone loves Thanksgiving turkeys. But IT industry turkeys? Not so much. We look at 10 examples of 'turkeys' that have disappointed the tech industry this year.

Sales to public sector clients continued to flourish for PC Connection in the quarter. Revenue in that segment increased by 9.3 percent to $116.6 million thanks to solid federal contract sales and strong gains in the K-12 education market, according to the company.

[10:04 AM, October 29, 2009]

Aneesh Chopra says designing a more open, transparent technology strategy will help deliver solutions more quickly and less expensively.

[04:41 PM, October 28, 2009]

Many conference attendees chose social media over cybersecurity, Software-as-a-Service, open-source technologies, wireless and mobility, virtualization and videoconferencing.

[03:48 PM, October 28, 2009]

A poll of state IT executives found that 58 percent of respondents have a statewide transparency project underway.

[04:47 PM, October 27, 2009]

Executives from the top three fastest-growing companies on the 2009 CRN Fast Growth list sit down with Everything Channel's Robert C. DeMarzo to talk shop.

[06:47 PM, October 21, 2009]

MXI Security targets government and enterprise solution providers with its secure USB flash drives.

[11:00 AM, October 19, 2009]

The U.S. government steps back from Internet oversight, and Vint Cerf couldn't be happier.

[10:13 AM, October 01, 2009]

JackBe's mashups present an excellent opportunity for middleware-focused VARs looking to optimize their customers' unwieldy data systems.

[11:00 AM, September 30, 2009]

Big Blue's Smarter Planet has buoyed a year of big gains in public sector, even as IBM's iconic public sector leader retires.

[06:36 PM, September 29, 2009]

Third-quarter IT sales through distribution fell 11.6 percent compared with the third quarter last year, but they increased 6.5 percent compared to the June quarter. In the past five years, the Q2 to Q3 changes have ranged from -0.5 percent to 4.6 percent, so this year's bump is significant.

[03:27 PM, September 29, 2009]

Security services among other new additions to Cisco's smart grid portfolio.

[01:42 PM, September 17, 2009]

The federal government's new cloud applications initiative, Apps.gov, leaves a few questions unanswered.

[01:30 PM, September 17, 2009]