New Motorola ES400 Available Thru Sprint, Channel Partners

astro posted on July 20, 2010 13:18

Schaumburg, IL-based Motorola has anounced the newest addition to its computing portfolio from its Enterprise Mobility Solutions division: the ES400 global enterprise digital assistant.

Its lightest EDA to date, it was built on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 platform. Market applications include in field service and sales, retail, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution.

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Cisco Cius v. Apple iPad: Battle Royalle?

astro posted on July 19, 2010 08:31

Designed for business users and collaboration, as opposed to consumers, Cisco's Cius goes toe-to-toe with Apple iPad tablet and may come out on top. Here's why:

Cisco has Consumer Ambitions
Open Development
Cisco's Channel Support

High Quality Camera
Network Ecosystem
More Security Aware

Cisco's Channel Insider daily digest details more reasons than these. Read on!

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ShorTel VMware ESX Release 11 to be Announced Thursday

astro posted on July 19, 2010 07:35

This Thursday, at its Channel Partners conference, ShoreTel will announce the availability of its VMware ESX Release 11.

Support, however, will be a tad delayed.

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HarryB Interviewed by Varvid

astro posted on July 16, 2010 16:46

Way to turn the tables on SMB Nation and Publisher Harry Brelsford!

Aaron Booker of Varvid and Harry Brelsford of SMB Nation met up at the end of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 to discuss what they’d seen. Beyond a greater emphasis on the Cloud,, Harry noticed is that Microsoft and other presenters all seem more friendly and comfortable with the attendees than in previous years.

Take a look!

P.S. Harry will soon be posting a blog related to this interview; putting it in context. Keep an eye out!

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PhoneTag: A Simpler way to Handle Voicemail

astro posted on July 16, 2010 09:38

Looking for a simpler way to handle voicemail? Try PhoneTag... the product, not the office "game."

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Junction Networks Awarded

astro posted on July 16, 2010 09:25

Junction Networks recently won a Stevie Award for its My.OnSIP product. It was recognized as being the Best New Product of the Year - Telecommunications in the 2010 American Business Awards category.

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Today's Event!: Telephonation Town Hall Call!

astro posted on July 16, 2010 00:01

At 9 a.m. PST today, SMB Nation will hold its monthly Telephonation town hall meeting.

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Connect The Dots Industry Education Site Launches Officially

astro posted on July 14, 2010 00:01

Take a peak at http://www.qwestconnectthedots.com/, a just-launched small business resource center presented by Denver, CO-based Qwest Communications.

The site, live today, contains a wealth of resources for small businesses. You will see catalog definitions of products and/or services on the site, of course, but the resource center will also include "how to" information of tech use in business.

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Instant Bandwidth Reporting from APconnections' NetEqualizer

astro posted on July 12, 2010 13:01

Lafayette CO-based APconnections has announced the release of multi-featured tool capable of reporting instant bandwidth results while delivering bursting support of network resources.

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Partners "All In" to Cloud Computing

astro posted on July 12, 2010 09:07

Onsite news from the Worldwide Partner Conference: Coud computing touted, Windows Azure platform appliance presented as deployment tool for customer and service provider datacenter use.

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