New channel market data provides clues for navigating the rough road ahead

Win 7 is solid, Office 2010 looks good, Bing is the second most mentioned search engine, made peace with the EU, gave olive branch to open source, Azure for the cloud, and BPOS makes sense

Sun says Oracle is firm in its commitment to the Sun hardware business, while Avnet says owning

Value added distributor wants to turn itself into a solutions distributor

New and important ways to keep your finger on the number-one activity that keeps your organization thriving

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom says communications traffic is mostly back to normal

The startup is said to be run by two of the Netscape founder’s former colleagues at Opsware

Outlook for Mac will replace Entourage for Mac, new Mac Office due before Christmas 2010

Nortel is on the verge of receiving a “stalking horse” bid for the business: reports

Infected PCs received an RSS feed containing new instructions

The companies say their combined product lines will provide views into both wired and wireless networks

PrinterOn’s mobile printing technology will be exclusively embedded in select Ricoh printers, allowing partners to package a mobile printing solution

Plus, Intel quad-core processors and Microsoft’s Zune HD player