HP’s PC-printer lovechild is cash boon for resellers On The Register, Paul Kunert looks at why. “Resellers and disties had lost bartering power while dealing with a trio of different faces at HP – the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), the Personal Systems Group (PSG) and the Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking division,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Why Nokia laid off 1,000 workers On ZDNet, Andrew Nusca reports on the layoffs. “Scale and proximity. As high-tech hardware manufacturing has shifted almost entirely to Asia, Nokia found itself standing flat-footed, with smaller factories in Hungary, Mexico, Romania and Finland still part of the manufacturing equation. The mobile device has gone global, but Nokia is still positioned on the ground like it’s 2000,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Kaspersky Lab makes three big hires On The VAR Guy, the author reports on the changes. “Doggett, Gaebler and Lozano join Kaspersky Lab as the security software company prepares for an annual channel partner conference in May. At the same time, Kaspersky Lab has been pushing into cloud-based security software, while also evolving its licensing models to better support cloud services providers (CSPs) and managed services providers (CSPs),” he writes. What’s your opinion?
