Scenes From The 2008 VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards Event
Vendors submitted hundreds of entries for the 2008 VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards, but only a handful emerged as purveyors of unique, groundbreaking products. Here's a look at the winners.

Apple Partners Bullish On Parallel Processing
Apple resellers believe the parallel processing improvements in the upcoming release of OS X 'Snow Leopard' will improve performance and cause more businesses to migrate to the platform.

Will Microsoft Online Store Affect Distributors?
Microsoft recently started selling its products online to U.S. consumers for the first time, and while VARs don't see it as a threat, distributors might have a different view.

Nehalem Nights: 10 Scenes From Intel's Core i7 Launch Party
Microprocessor giant's first desktop chips built with a sleek new micro-architecture are already being called 'the fastest processors on the planet.'
Intel, AMD Square Off With Nehalem And Shanghai

IT Execs Say They Learned Lessons Of Dot.com Crash
The themes of generating cash, cutting costs, diversifying customer bases and increasing the proportion of recurring revenues were echoed by companies.

RetailVision Middle East: No End In Sight To Fast Growth
There was no consumer electronics retailer gloom and doom at RetailVision Middle East. The market is booming. And retailers and vendors are cashing in.

The Most Innovative Products Of 2008
R&D throughout the industry has led to significant steps in innovation this year. VARBusiness presents the winners of it annual Tech Innovators.

Review: Western Digital's WD Media Player

Storage leader Western Digital expands its product line into the high-definition media market.

Review: StarOffice 9 Merits Serious Consideration

StarOffice 9's final release is the strongest alternative to Microsoft Office Professional yet.

It Ain't Heavy, It's A Brother

For a variety of reasons, multifunction printers (MFPs) are continuing to see nice strength in the market as system and IT consolidation continue unabated. All-in-ones, as they are also known, offer small and midsize offices the features of multiple devices, but with a relatively smaller footprint and price. They can let SMBs attain the same consolidation benefits, in many cases, as larger enterprises if on a smaller scale.

When Patch-work Counts

Software updates, or "patches," have become such a crucial component of network security, that a day of the week has been dedicated to them: "Patch Tuesday" is when Microsoft Corp. releases regular updates for its software.

Intuit Goes SaaS With QuickBooks

Intuit Inc.'s QuickBase, a Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite, is in a market competing with better-known CRM providers like Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., and Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco. But the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based software vendor may not have been as aggressive in pitching its offering—inasmuch as Intuit's more traditional personal and business finance applications continue to be its much better-known flagships.

The Switch Is On--Gigabit, That Is

Gigabit Ethernet is the current norm. So, there is no shortage of all things Gigabit: switches, hubs, adapters, etc. It can be arduous to wade through all the varying Gigabit hardware offerings. Product purchase choices are contingent on a number of factors. Yet, as of late, another consideration has been influencing IT purchase decisions—energy efficiency. This makes product decisions even more daunting, because many vendors have been quick to tout their products as "energy efficient."

Got The Data Center Move Blues? This VAR Sings About It

Advanced Systems Group (ASG) pokes fun at the hassles of moving a data center in its first professionally done online video.

BlackBerry Faithful Gather For The Storm

Loyal BlackBerry users lined up as early as 5:30 a.m. to be the first to get their hands on the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first ever touch-screen device and its official answer to the Apple iPhone 3G.

Verizon Wireless Employees Hack Obama's Cell Phone

President-Elect Barack Obama's Verizon Wireless account was accessed by Verizon employees without authorization.

Former Symantec CEO Joins Perimeter eSecurity Board

Where is the former Symantec CEO Gordon Eubanks now? These days Eubanks is happy to help security start up companies get their wings by joining their board of directors.

FalconStor Blows Segway Promo, Gets T-shirts Tossed Back By Angry Crowd

Caught on video: Segway-loving hopefuls wearing orange FalconStor T-shirts show their displeasure by tossing their shirts back at the vendor when a non-T-shirt-wearing guy wins.

AMD's 45nm Phenom II Chips Overclocked To 6+GHz

Reports from an Austin, Texas, reviewers' demo indicate Advanced Micro Devices' next-gen desktop processors could be a lot faster than originally guessed.

Today's the day Research In Motion's touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry storm, arrives in stores. Andrew Hickey asks, "Can The BlackBerry Storm Live Up To The Hype?" "BlackBerry loyalists and fickle smartphone consumers alike have been salivating over the possibility of...

Microsoft's free security download, Morro, only offers antimalware protection for users' PCs. But the announcement was enough to trigger falling shares for both Symantec and McAfee.

Google and Life Magazine have struck a partnership through which Google will host millions of Life photographs as part of its image search function.

Forget all the bad news dragging down the IT market. Here's why HP, the world's largest IT products and services company, is beating the competition and outperforming the market.

With the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first touch-screen smartphone, hitting stores Nov. 21, there are sure to be comparisons between the Storm and the Apple iPhone. Here are five reasons the Storm is the better device.

How does the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first ever touch-screen smart phone, stack up against its touch-screen rivals the T-Mobile G1 and the Apple iPhone 3G? Here, we pit the devices head-to-head-to-head in 14 different categories to determine the true touch-screen titan.

R&D throughout the industry has led to significant steps in innovation this year. VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards recognize the most innovative of these offerings from several different sectors.

ChannelWeb offers 7 reasons why netbooks, like disco, Cabbage Patch Dolls and the Macarena, are just another passing fad that one day will be fodder for ridicule.