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

On the heels of FriendFeed buy, Facebook makes new move to be social networking hub

The Crescent City was all a glow with top channel partners from Canada

Plus, Dell’s Vostro all-in-one PC and Toshiba plans to launch Blu-Ray Disc player laptops

WIND will launch in key markets later this year and will launch services across Canada in 2010

Mini notebook performs well, is easy to use and is stylishrnrn

Buy may also help VMware leapfrog Sun and reach Java developers eyeing the cloud

Plus, Cisco’s CEO says restructuring is over, for now, and protecting customers against malware

Focusing on sales-cycle starts rather than leads lets you measure something that’s meaningful to the business and provide a solid basis for collaboration among marketing, pre-sales, and sales teams

Mike Zafirovski is leaving as president and CEO as Nortel reduces the size of its board and prepares for the future

Plus, why RIM feels Nortel’s LTE patents could impact national security and why Nortel says they won’t

Cisco is dominant but its competitors are starting to make compelling value claims that have customers taking notice

If IBM acquires SPSS Inc., the company will play in the high-end analytics and data mining business, analysts say