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May 8, 2008

New Rule: Video Piracy Threatens Public Safety

Leave it Los Angeles County government officials to enact another idiotic public law. Now peer-to-peer video and audio piracy has been declared on par with gambling, gang-banging and prostitution, and property where such activity occurs can be closed for as much as a year.

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May 7, 2008

Dell's Delicate Channel Balancing Act

Sounds like Dell Computer is about to engage in a delicate balancing act with its new-found channel partners. The vendor is launching a managed services initiative to sell to customers directly. So will Dell destroy margins in managed services the way it did with PCs? 

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May 5, 2008

Are We Hallucinating About the Internet?

The technology industry and channel partners are certainly much better off because of the Internet. The technology changes it has spawned have resonated through the channel for more than a decade. But are we totally missing the downside of that experience?

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May 2, 2008

Cuban Trade Embargo Will Hurt Channel

Personal computers have for the first time gone on sale in Cuba, but the U.S. reseller channel is going to suffer because of the antiquated, ineffective and ridicuous trade embargo that the Bush Administration stubbornly clings to for that island nation.


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April 30, 2008

Fifteen Years Later, Are We Better Off wih the Web?

May 1 represents the 15th anniversary of the day the Web's code was placed into the public domain. So this public birthday of the Internet raises the question of whether it's been a force for good or evil.

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April 28, 2008

Will DIstributors Economic Cold Infect the Channel?

The latest quarterly financial reports from top channel distributors have been somewhat disappointing, unlike reports from channel vendors that show overseas sales are compensating for the economic slowdown in the U.S.

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April 24, 2008

Microsoft's Ballmer Hints At XP Pardon

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a smart political (if not business) move when he told a press conference in Europe that the company might rethink its plans to completely phase-out its XP operating system.

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April 23, 2008

Channel Tech Earnings Stay Strong

Tech companies with a strong channel presence seem to be doing well as the earnings season starts to unfold. Despite fears of a general economic slowdown, the tech sector seems to be hanging in well.

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April 22, 2008

FCC Chairman To Congress: Stay Away

Please, don't pass any laws that require me to actually regulate anything, especially the Internet. That's the message FCC Chairman's Kevin Martin appears to be delivering to Congress this week.


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April 21, 2008

Internet's Future Up for Debate

The U.S. Senate this week considers an issue of critical importance to ISPs, developers and other channel partners: The future of the Internet.

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