Daylight Saving Time may cause hiccups this year
In case you haven't heard yet, the switch away from standard time this year won't be, well, standard. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the start of daylight saving time to March...
Avaya/Lenovo deal could give VARs simple VoIP product to sell
Avaya could provide some additional competition to both Cisco Systems Inc. and Vonage, following an agreement to put its voice over IP (VoIP) software on Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks.
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Channel news: McAfee hires ex-EMC exec; WordPress has backdoor
Hackers plant backdoor in blogging software Stop the WordPress. [TheReg]
Top HP sales exec leaves
The head of Hewlett Packard's Technology Solutions Group (TSG) resigned on Friday, a spokesperson for HP confirmed today. David Booth, TSG's senior vice president and U.S. country manager, left the company for "personal reasons," according to Jane...
RFID is in the money

Not too long ago I wrote about the opportunities that exist for VARs in the RFID market. Today it looks like that market may have come into its own.
Channel news: Feds to own less IT; Cisco buys social nets
Federal IT Outsourcing market reflects shortages and shift away from government-owned IT
The stock market and the channel market
The stock market took a scary plunge last Tuesday in reaction to a sudden drop in China's market. According to a Boston Globe Article, Misery in the market, the dow dropped 564 points,...
Channel news: HDD failures 13X predictions; HP hires channel chief
Disk drive failures 13 times what vendors say, study saysThe study showed annual replacement...
IBM partners up with SaaS SCM provider
IBM and i2, a provider of supply chain management (SCM) software, announced today that they will be extending their partnership for i2's FreightMatrix, its transportation management software. Although...
Perfection is where you find it, even while diving out of a flaming motor home
The channel angle on this story is (ahem) thin. But in the interest of keeping readers informed of remarkable accomplishments being discussed online, we present the most perfect lead sentence to a news story...