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

Growth in Canadian channel revenue in the first five months of 2020 is keeping pace with the same period in the last few years. However, the outlook for the remainder of the year remains precarious.

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

Growth in Canadian channel revenue in the first five months of 2020 is keeping pace with the same period in the last few years. However, the outlook for the remainder of the year remains precarious.

CDN Morning Briefing, July 9 – The channel’s guideposts to the ‘new normal’

Zoom launches Hardware-as-a-Service, but only in the U.S.

Zoom Video Communications this week announced the launch of Zoom Hardware-as-a-service (HaaS), but only in the U.S.

Reddit discusses franchised MSP blunders, network performance tools, and returning to the office

The MSP subreddit has been busy. Let’s take a look at some of the top discussions. And…

Commvault and Microsoft sign multi-year deal to deliver Metallic SaaS with Azure

Microsoft Azure is entering its heavy metal phase.

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Top Solution Provider of 2018: Softchoice – Interview with John Husband

All Hands on Tech – Fitbit Charge 3 review

Recap of Intel’s CPU announcements at CES 2019 – 10nm Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, and Nervana AI chip

Belkin’s new WeMo smart switches and Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant – All Hands on Tech at CES 2019

Jabra’s new Elite 85h headphones & Evolve 65t wireless earbuds – All Hands on Tech at CES 2019

Take a tour inside Accenture’s new Canada Innovation Hub

All Hands on Tech – Anki Vector Robot full review

All Hands on Tech – Apple Homepod (full review)

Channel Strategy News

An easy notebook landing pad

StarTech.com’s USB Docking Station with VGA makes your notebook’s return to home base a little easier

Apple’s iPhone versus RIM’s Blackberry in a reliability test

Plus, Dell ceases its MP3 player plans and notebooks that use multiple GPUs

Smart spending during tough economic times

The best methods can be determined by asking your customers how they would like to be served

Sun rolls out its own storage appliances

Sun is introducing a line of storage appliances with solid-state drives and advanced analytics software.

Nortel reports loss, plans layoffs

Canadian networking giant reports net losses of $3.4 billion for the third quarter and also plans to cut 1,300 jobs

MacBook Air 1.86GHz test results

Updated MacBook Air features faster graphics and more storage

Microsoft doesn’t want Yahoo either

Steve Ballmer says company’s not interested in taking over Yahoo anymore

New Ncomputing device will turn one PC into 11

Decreased computing costs will mean good thing for schools and businesses

Microsoft signs MSN Toolbar deal with Sun

Agreement will hopefully boost the use of Microsoft’s search offering

The importance of SMB partners in today’s economy

Plus, news on Windows 7 and a new phone from LG that targets the ladiesrnrn

Netbooks, Cloud Computing

Forget Long Tail or Chasm, it’s all about the Hype Cycle

HP Compaq 6530b all-purpose laptop

This notebook makes a pretty strong case for itself as a useful business box

Panasonic, Sanyo to start acquisition talks

Sanyo has been struggling to turn around its business for the past few years

Apple overtakes RIM, Microsoft in smartphones

A record high 39.9 million smartphones were shipped globally in the July through September period

Despite ‘challenging’ outlook, Lenovo pledges to expand

Despite slower shipments and lower profit, Lenovo says it will accelerate its expansion in emerging markets

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