Business news, analysis, comment and reviews for resellers and VARs in the UK computer channel

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Date: 24 May 2012

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum

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Date: 13 Jun 2012

Legal Week's seventh annual Strategic Technology Forum will take an in-depth look into the shift in mindset that law firms are taking for the provision of their services

CRN Sales and Marketing Awards

CRN Sales and Marketing Awards 2012 logo

Date: 21 Jun 2012

Brand new event launched to celebrate individual and team performance within the channel

Next live event
CRN Partner Connect logo

CRN Partner Connect 2012

Date: 17 May 2012

CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

More or less in the age of smarter IT

Man pushing cogs in a machine

Might manufacturers increasingly fall in line with users’ desire to buy tech less often, risking channel sales cycles in the process? Fleur Doidge

Value over volume for displays in 2012

Lachlan Welsh is displays analyst at Context

The UK monitor market will gain from an increased vendor push for niche markets and high-quality products this year, suggests Lachlan Welsh

For the present

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The wraps are about to be removed on the plans for this year’s CRN Partner Connect event in Coventry. Fleur Doidge reports.

Will Apple's attitude to the channel change in 2012?

31%

23%

45%

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Lee Newman is service director at LAN3

Lee Newman

Lan3

Don't promise something you can't deliver, otherwise your credibility is shot

Huawei's Dave Poskett

CRN Q&A: David Poskett, Huawei

In this video find out about the fast-growing Chinese vendor's plans for market domination and how the channel is its route of choice

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Sponsored video: Acer Autumn conference

Find out what gifts Acer has in store for partners for 2012 in this exclusive roundup of its recent conference

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Dave the dealer blog

Dave the dealer

Clocking off

Dave discovers that rozzers are seemingly living in the technology dark ages

View from the channel

Views from the Channel

Departing CEO has done Dixons a service

Mark Needham, founder of distributor Widget, argues that John Browett leaves for Apple with Dixons in better shape than when he arrived

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The mobile enterprise: Secure the data, not the device

The proliferation of endpoint devices within the enterprise has highlighted the shortcomings of one of the traditional approaches to data security

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Measuring the ROI of Google Apps

This Forrester report compares the costs and benefits of legacy email and productivity software with Google Apps