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Channelweb.com News Quiz -- June 2009
How well do you know the IT channel? In this quiz, we ask 10 questions regarding the business and technology issues that solution providers encountered in June, as reported on Channelweb.com. See how well you score!
Microsoft May Offer Windows 7 'Family Pack'
As it did with Windows Vista, Microsoft may be preparing to launch a program in which customers can purchase a Windows 7 license that covers up to three PCs within a home.
REVIEWS
Firefox 3.5's enhancements gives it far superior performance over previous releases and shames IE 8's benchmark test results.
Dell's next generation tablet notebook offers useful features in a handsome, comfortable case.
Finjan's Secure Twitter is designed for Internet Explorer and Firefox users, but it only worked in one browser for us.
With the DIR-685, D-Link brings to market the world's first all-in-one router/storage/photo frame.
With the release of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple adds new features and enhancements to the widely popular smartphone.
Eurocom's new D900F Panther is the world's first Core i7-based notebook.
BLOGS
Apple is working double time to create a security patch for a critical SMS flaw that opens users up for attack when they sends text messages via the iPhone.
Bing got its first major test after Michael Jackson's death last week. Microsoft says it learned a great deal and will use that knowledge to improve the way Bing responds to major media news events.
Neat Technologies Group offers scanning and imaging products to help SMBs go digital.
Facebook is going head to head with microblogging site Twitter by simplifying its privacy settings and making content more ... private.
Apple updates its tech support document to include 3G S.
Just weeks after releasing iPhone 3.0, Apple if offering a beta and software development kit for iPhone OS 3.1, which brings to life many of the new features of the iPhone 3GS.
Oracle has fashioned itself as somewhat of an acquisition whiz making deals for great technology products (PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Hyperion) and then squeezing more value of out of them. Thats certainly what it looks like the company is doing once
Once again, we're looking for the leading vendor executives for our Channel Executive of the Year Award. This is Everything Channel's highest vendor honor, and will be presented at XChange '09 in Washington this summer. "Nominees... are judged on the
MOST READ
Will the iconic CEO resume his old micromanaging role? Does a company that's humming along really need him to? One thing's for sure -- Apple won't be telling us anytime soon.
As the forefather to today's iPod, Sony's Walkman started a revolution in home electronics from which has come a progression of ever-cooler gadgets. So dig out the earphones, get some AA batteries in the Walkman and take a stroll down memory lane.
Its worth taking a look at Firefox' latest version for speed, privacy and convenience.
23 Ways To Speed WinXP Without Defrag
Security software vendors report a surge in e-mails with infected attachments and links to bogus Web sites.
The success of Amazon's Kindle has made it all but synonymous with e-reading, but as cheaper, more varied and more multifunctional devices come to the fore, Amazon will be tested.
Check out our picks for the hot Emerging Software Vendors from the 2009 Emerging Vendors survey.