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

UC-based solution will be used throughout the college’s three campus locations

Plus, storage encryption and digital camera vendors

In an era where vendors are aiming to get bigger and become one-stop technology shops, the value of the channel partner won’t be diminished

If you travel with a lot of technology, the mCube universal adapter can help you avoid the usual tangle of power cords

The new services are Symantec’s first for remote desktop monitoring

Will limit Windows Essential Security to 75,000 copies when it offers free beta at noon ET

Samsung’s new SSDs are up to 80 percent smaller than its larger cousins, but offer lower storage capacity

Plus, Microsoft’s Bing search engine advantage and updates to Sony’s Vaio P-series notebooks

Channelling the sales professional in every entrepreneur

Here are what some of the distributors are doing to help their reseller partners through these tough times

LCD is well-suited for demanding applications in graphics design, image and video processing or desktop publishing

New product line focuses on delivering hosted tools and services for virtual desktop management and application development and testing

RIM’s problems won’t get easier, they are likely to get worse