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

As of December 1st, Tech Data is a distributor for software vendor Autodesk in Canada

New quote and order system for Cisco at the distributor

Deal will boost competition, not break it, Oracle will claim

Antitrust issues, bad blood and merger complexity should put kibosh on an acquisition

The MS214 delivers features and price, so long as you can do without a touchscreen and a variety of external connections

Regulated companies will face increased scrutiny, demands for transparency, and regulatory pressures that are destined to drive up the cost of compliance for every company

Plus, unified communications and Apple’s stock results

Dean Douglas discusses the distributor’s past year in business and what’s next in 2010

Thin and light laptops would be selling better if PC makers like Dell and HP wanted them to, Acer exec says

Norton takes on file sharing and e-mail backup

Acer will create phones for top, mid and low-tier price levels aimed at business users and consumers

Dell’s new Vostro V13 brings a sense of style to Dell’s solid–if staid–business PC line.