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All three vendors debuted major additions to their notebook product lines. Ease and affordability for the SMB market, adaptability for on-the-go users and especially Intel's Centrino 2 are the common themes.

Check out these useful apps for the iPhone that have contributed to 10 million overall downloads.

Microsoft may not have a reputation as the most sexy company in the industry, but one thing's for sure: Microsoft and its channel partners sure do know how to have fun. ChannelWeb looks at some of the scenes that lightened up the atmosphere at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.

While they acknowledge the vendor still has a long way to go in recasting itself as a channel player, solution providers say Dell's channel effort is beginning to show promise.

[06:00 PM, July 18, 2008]

Apple sues Miami-based Psystar, by selling computers that run copies of Leopard OS X, is in violation of Apple's Software License Agreement.

[06:40 PM, July 15, 2008]

Lenovo announced a new series of notebooks geared specifically to price-sensitive, services-starved SMB customers.

[12:01 AM, July 15, 2008]

There is going to be pressure on employers to raise wages above the core inflation rate or risk losing employees to a higher bidder.

[12:00 AM, July 15, 2008]

Proposed rules in Congress could, allegedly, prohibit representatives from using Web 2.0 tools from the floor of the House of Represenatives.

[06:01 PM, July 08, 2008]

As of July 1, California and Washington state will begin enforcing new laws to ban driving while talking on cell phones. ChannelWeb has tracked down the 10 hottest hands free devices to help drivers both talk and pay attention while behind the wheel.

[12:32 PM, June 30, 2008]

Companies not only need to implement security technologies to protect their IT networks, but they have to prove that adequate security systems are in place.

[12:00 AM, June 30, 2008]

Charter is suspending a pilot targeted advertising program due to concerns raised by U.S. lawmakers.

[06:28 PM, June 25, 2008]

Solution providers can crack the code to win federal government contracts.

[08:00 AM, June 23, 2008]

Mark Hurd has targeted the public-sector market as an underserved vertical for Hewlett-Packard Co., and he wants solution providers to help grow the company's government business.

[08:00 AM, June 23, 2008]

Green IT is a great idea in theory—and important for an environmentally sound future. But as a selling point to customers in 2008, it doesn't go much beyond an added bonus, according to a round table of solution providers that convened at Everything Channel's 2008 VARBusiness 500 Conference this month.

[12:00 AM, June 23, 2008]

The media may be full of doom-and-gloom stories about the state of the U.S. economy and predictions of a recession—or worse. But Todd Buchholz, economist and former White House director of economic policy, believes the U.S. will skirt a recession and says the current uncertain economic times offer opportunities for solution providers.

[12:00 AM, June 23, 2008]

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