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The art and the arena

Visitors registering for Partner Connect 2012 at Ricoh Arena

Some Partner Connect attendees and exhibitors this year were more creative in their approach than others. Fleur Doidge reviews the show

25 May 2012

Getting more from convergence

NEC's Chris de Silva

IP telephony is yet to result in a complete communications and collaboration revolution but progress is being made, according to Chris de Silva

07 Nov 2011

Resellers gear up for NEC

The team at Nimans' NEC race day

Partners of distributor Nimans enjoy day at Bedford Autodrome

26 Oct 2011

NEC displays channel to fly further into aviation

Vendor reinforces vertical leadership team across EMEA

07 Sep 2011

NEC Display Solutions hires medical and media sales managers

Aim is to strengthen focus on specialist verticals with two new appointments

23 Jun 2011

Micro-P nabs Nimans man Adams to lead comms charge

Phil Adams ends six-year association with Salford firm to head up distributor's burgeoning PBX and network arm

29 Mar 2011

United once more

Neil Hartigan would love to keep Liverpool away from the Premiership

24 Jan 2011

UK PBX market woes continue

No sign of a brighter day for telephony hardware space, despite global turnaround

06 Dec 2010

Microsoft names private cloud vendor partners

Software giant outlines strategy and vendor alliances for private cloud platform

09 Nov 2010

Monitor market starts post-recession recovery

Analyst house Meko reports good first-quarter growth, but warns market will remain challenging for some time

12 May 2010

Hosted VoIP to bloom as comms market grows

Infonetics claims managed services will prove increasingly popular as firms up their comms spend in 2010

06 Apr 2010

Micro-P calls up NEC

Distributor looks to get further into comms market with latest partnership

28 Sep 2009

PBX market begins long road to recovery in Q2

UK market shrinks by a quarter year on year but returns to sequential growth following torrid Q1

23 Sep 2009

Midwich cosies up to Samsung visualisers and plasmas

Distributor negotiates exclusive rights to Samsung plasma and adds visualiser line-up

05 Aug 2009

Focus: A guide to green IT incentives

Vendors are chasing the green pound through the channel. What help can VARs expect? Fleur Doidge reports

24 Jul 2009

Maximum exposure

The much-anticipated Channel Expo 2009 provided attendees with invaluable advice. Fleur Doidge reports

29 May 2009

Countdown to Expo '09

With the best education programme in Expo history and more big hitters exhibiting than ever before, can you afford to miss this year's event? writes Sara Yirrell

11 May 2009

Electronics giants in merger frenzy

NEC Electronics to merge with Renesas and Hitachi to re-absorb standalone communications arm

27 Apr 2009

Theatre of possibility

Channel Expo 2009 looks set to raise the curtain on the latest moves from vendors and distributors, says Fleur Doidge

17 Apr 2009

NEC quits declining plasma market

One more vendor pulls out of commercial plasma

10 Mar 2009

Nimans event is nice NEC for VARs

Distributor hosts seminar for resellers to hone sales and technical skills around vendor's new unified communications kit

16 Feb 2009

NEC quiet over channel exit

Partners say vendor's stop-start channel policy contributed to its downfall

13 Feb 2009

Channels to success

A diverse line-up of exhibitors and a revamped programme is the drawcard for CRN Channel Expo 2009, says Fleur Doidge

12 Feb 2009

NEC plots EMEA PC market exit

Japanese PC vendor planning to withdraw from corporate market two years after consumer exit, reports suggest

06 Feb 2009

Party on or party over?

Many have predicted an end to festivities for the UK channel this year, but Fleur Doidge finds some good prospects among the post-shindig debris

09 Jan 2009

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