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The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 13: Palm Michael Moskowitz

Palm's top executive in Canada had to figure out how to make the Microsoft partnership work here

The Top 25 Newsmaker of 2006 – Number 12: Cisco Canada Ross Pellizzari

This year marked the debut of new specialization certifications Cisco hopes will make VARs more profitable

The Top 25 Newmakers of 2006 – Number 11: Voodoo Rahul Sood

The co-owner of a speciality PC manufacturer is now playing a new game within Hewlett-Packard

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 10: Lenovo Murray Wright

He landed at Lenovo, launched the first non-IBM line at the company and then left for former rival Tech Data

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 9: Acer Canada Terry Tomecek

After fast growth in the notebook market, Acer is going full speed to take on competitors on the PC front

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 8: Ingram Micro Canada Martin Kalsbeek

Taking charge during a turbulent time at the distributor, Kalsbeek delivered in a big way

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 7: SAP Jeff Watts

SAP Canada's top channel executive now has responsibility for the entire North American channel

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – Number 6: Nexinnovations Hubert Kelly

One of Canada's biggest solution providers is in trouble and its CEO is looking to orchestrate a turnaround

The Top 25 Newsmaker of 2006 – Number 5: TakingITGlobal Jennifer Corriero

At 26, this co-founder and executive director of TakingITGlobal was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for helping empower young people through technology

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2006 – RIM Number 4: RIM Jim Balsillie

The busy co-CEO hammered out an expensive settlement of the NTP case, released a controversial new version of its handheld line and still had time to buy the Pittsburgh Pengiuns

Top newsmaker’s great debate

How ATI CEO David Orton became the Top Newsmaker for this year

Nortel expands Ethernet line

Nortel Networks has added two Ethernet switches to the low end of its line, aimed at helping partners sell to small and mid-sized companies

SAS turns to channel for SMB

Licensing changed to per user pricing to help attract smaller businesses to company's BI products

HP rolls out carpet for VAR sales reps

New program gives option of putting rewards into RRSPs or buying HP stock

Biker gangs and mafia linked to software piracy

Canadian software piracy is close to $1 billion in losses

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