Amazon and co threaten all business sectors
From a standing start last year, with the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, the King of Etail has already shivered many timbers in the tablet market and is already the second biggest player after Apple. But...
View ArticleChannel is missing tablet opportunity
Resellers and the channel are missing an opportunity to provide secure tablet and smartphone packages to big business. With the consumerisation of IT, corporations are under increasing pressure to...
View ArticleMonolithic Apple looks for fresh adventures
Apple has built its monolithic empire on the back of revolutionary, disruptive product launches which immediately ascend to dominate the market they enter (or in some cases create). With the iPod and...
View ArticleMicrosoft throws money at app developers
In the run up to the launch of Windows 8, and as we’d expect would happen, Microsoft is spending millions to get developers to produce apps for mobile and tablet devices. The problem the software giant...
View ArticleThe tablets are coming, hoorah hoorah!
A recent report from Display Search on tablets showed up an interesting fact. After Apple the second biggest supplier of tablets for Q3 2011 (the latest set of statistics available) wasn’t Samsung but...
View ArticlePortugal has bright idea: Tax storage devices!
Paul Taylor, who lives in Portugal, and writing for our sister publication TechEye, tells us of a particularly nutty scheme that the Portuguese government is thinking of introducing. Dubbed the...
View ArticleWhy Windows tablets will be the big winners and Nokia will bounce back hard
The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) revolution in IT has given freedom to many to pick and choose what mobile device they use for work as well as play. That choice has brought about the dramatic changes...
View ArticleE-Bay the way for the grey market?
Goedemorgen Euro Sceptics, I bet you are enjoying watching your cousins-across-the-channel squirm under the potential collapse of the AirOh (€)? It must be a mild distraction to your own financial woes...
View ArticleBYOD is either a channel opportunity or disruptive hype
WIth an increase in the amount of services aimed at enabling BYOD, it is often difficult to differentiate between the hype and the real, immediate opportunity for the channel. Big vendors have have...
View ArticleIntel’s plans kill supplier flexibility
Intel is about to make another huge mistake due to the sort of inflexibility which bought humanity disasters sort of disasters as the charge of the Light Brigade. Rumours are circulating that Haswell...
View ArticleWill Microsoft’s Hardware Deal Ever Surface In The Channel?
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, the subject of tablets has been kept below the surface even though Windows 8 was top of the agenda. It’s a sore point with many of the partners that they...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Tablet Channel Strategy Surfaces At Last
It’s taken almost a year but Microsoft has now assigned nine UK distributors to supply its Surface tablets to businesses and academia. The green light has been given to CCS Media, Computacenter,...
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