Accenture/Avanade, Bulletproof, winners at Microsoft’s global Partner of the Year Awards

Remembering Apple’s struggles is as important as its accomplishments

The distributor is celebrating the success of its incentives program, launched last winter

HP Cloud Services will offer users both compute and storage capabilities on an on-demand basis

BlueArc will allow HDS to more quickly expand its fast growing file storage business

HP also now offers faster AMD E-series chips in laptop

IBM pledges to fund $1 billion worth of loans to help small and medium sized businesses purchase IBM systems and services

The ability to run Mac OS X Lion VMs has real appeal, but the implementation is not fully baked

Tablet prices are dropping, so we compare sub-$350 offerings from Lenovo, Acer, ViewSonic, and Samsung

Plus, iCloud drops its Apple lawsuit and more iPad rumours

A company rep says while the service is just up and running, Symantec has a team ready to help interested channel partners

Leaked memos reveal that the hardware division is being prepared for spin-off

Ronald G Wayne’s autobiography Adventures of an Apple Founder released

The latest version of QuickBooks offers new CRM, reports, inventory, and invoicing features

Carol Bartz out as chief executive of Yahoo. The board fired her, although her contract didn’t expire until 2013