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

Plus thoughts on a famous Silcon Valley garage and a musing on robots

Tech Data to offer network anti-virus and content security software and services via a usage-based licensing program

Two new research studies found that profits are high for both areas in Canada

Users will be able to make changes while machine stays on

Parent company switches gears and comes out with a formal channel plan to attract resellers, but the Canadian operation is staying direct

Kyle Ranson leaves company that’s still bleeding red ink

Convertible tablet and lightweight laptops unveiled at government show

PC sales help push company US$25 billion in quarterly revenue

Microsoft is really struggling with Google and Yahoo!

Samsung Canada and Ingram Micro partner on a promotion

New distribution strategy for California-based chip security vendor

New product designed for new midrange architecture to deliver new levels of availability

Eight proactive steps for sales people and how not to get fooled with last looks

New report suggests that hiring in the first quarter surpassed that of pre-Y2K levels

It has signed up more vendors to build hardware for the OS