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Clocking off

10 Feb 2012 Shocking news emerged recently that English law is being enforced by a bunch of Luddites. The Metropolitan Police spent...

Dave the dealer
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Web browsers

08 Feb 2012 Regular reader(s) can imagine my squeals of delight on stumbling upon a deeply fascinating piece of research this week revealing...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

CRN Sales and Marketing Awards

07 Feb 2012 Yesterday saw CRN unveil our first new venture of 2012 - the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards. Due to take place in Central...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

When disaster strikes...

02 Feb 2012 I must admit I have been pretty guilty in the past of seeing disaster recovery press releases and almost rolling my eyes....

Views from the Channel
View from the channel

Departing CEO has done Dixons a service

01 Feb 2012 Following the news that John Browett is to leave Dixons to head up Apple Retail in the US, an American friend emailed me...

Dave the dealer
Dave the dealer blog

Perkaholics

01 Feb 2012 I'm known across the east London IT channel for running a tight ship. (Some wags even suggested "tight" was the operative...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Hovering, but will we go in?

25 Jan 2012 The last three months of 2011 saw the economy shrink for the first time in a year according to the latest UK GDP figures....

Views from the Channel
View from the channel

EMC channel push to equal Dell hell?

25 Jan 2012 By Doug Woodburn Not since Dell ditched its direct-only mantra last decade has the IT channel stood to benefit from such...

Dave the dealer
Dave the dealer blog

Ear we go again

25 Jan 2012 Ah, the mid-80s. Such fond memories of bowling round the estates and thoroughfares of Dagenham with my hooky Volkswagen sign...

Dave the dealer
Dave the dealer blog

Drumming up business

23 Jan 2012 I was recently offered the chance to have a tête-à-tête with the big boss man of storage vendor Coraid and was intrigued...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

The price of being a pioneer..

19 Jan 2012 In the good old early days of the tech industry things moved at a much slower pace and there was actually breathing room...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Doomsaying rules the day - or does it?

16 Jan 2012 I'm a little tempted to say 'put another record on' when it comes to national media reports about the economy - the amount...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Shameless push for sponsorship

09 Jan 2012 I must apologise for the number of begging tweets and blogs I'm going to do - but anyone who knows me will know I'm not the...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Getting stuck into 2012

06 Jan 2012 Dear Channelweb readers I must apologise for my absence in the first working week back of the year - unfortunately my 2011...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Happy Christmas!

23 Dec 2011 OK so the Christmas tree picture is a little cliched - but hey - it is only one time a year. It really doesn't seem like...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

Have some common sense

13 Dec 2011 Don't trust a stranger with your laptop when you go to the toilet in a public place. That is one of the genius bits of...

Views from the Channel
View from the channel

Three ways to avoid the HDD price hike

12 Dec 2011 As has been widely reported, floods in Thailand are restricting hard drive supply, leading to inevitable price hikes. Here...

Dave the dealer
Dave the dealer blog

Seeds of doubt

08 Dec 2011 As a career technologist and - as you can't have failed to notice - a big, burly, virile, thrusting bloke of a man, I stumbled...

The editor's diary
The Editors dairy blog

A very merry (online) Christmas

07 Dec 2011 If you are a high street shop with no online presence look away now.  It is over for you. Apparently. According to the...

Dave the dealer
Dave the dealer blog

A case of the Mondays

05 Dec 2011 You can't have failed to notice that this time last week was Cyber Monday, the year's busiest web shopping day. You can't...

CRN Partner Connect 2012

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

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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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


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