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

Like an unmarked highway patrol car, this general-purpose laptop’s looks belie its power

Plus, Cisco won’t deny it is selling off its Linksys brand and another threat to Android smartphones

A little bedtime story from the corporate history books

Enough performance for gaming, home and business use

HP’s full-year earnings per share could fall as low as US$4.27

Nvidia claims new Tesla M2090 GPU is the fastest HPC processor

VMware Horizon App Manager will provide a single sign on for all of an organization’s cloud applications

SAP needs to deliver more than hype about new products at the user conference, customers and analysts say

New FlexNetwork platform and switches allow network managers to create a converged network across the enterprise

Hitachi Data Systems is expanding its TrueNorth Partner Program with five new specializations that will open services business to the channel

Plus, what VMware’s latest acquisition means for virtualization and why the Android tablet market may survive the iPad.

Despite some rough edges, Toast 11 is a very nice upgrade from Toast 10

Plus, security concerns with Dropbox and corporate social media policy

In the wake of the recession, many customers are looking for channel partners who can help them be more efficient, save money, reduce waste and create and maintain a “green” strategy

Says software on some tablet won’t load at set-up