FW: 1-11-07: Vendors Spur Fast Growth; Lexmark, HP End Dahlgren Fight; Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone

 

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From: VARBusiness Insider [mailto:VARBusiness_Insider1@newsletter.varbusiness.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:41 AM
To: varbusiness@fkx.com
Subject: 1-11-07: Vendors Spur Fast Growth; Lexmark, HP End Dahlgren Fight; Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone

Editor's Note My day's off to a great start. It is! I came in this morning to find Slashdot picked up VARBusiness.com's article about Microsoft's releasing its next-gen CRM app to VARs for testing. Reader comments range from informative (one person's review of the software) to amusing (what CRM really stands for). Let me know what you think. -- Gayle Kesten, VARBusiness.com Online Editor TODAY'S TOP FEATURES & ANALYSES Vendors Spur Fast Growth Solution providers agree: Vendor alliances are key to growing business. And in the latest VARBusiness 500 quarterly poll, they reveal which ones are giving them the best boost. >> Search the VARBusiness 500 Lexmark, HP End Fight Over Dahlgren Printing vendor Lexmark International and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to settle their year-long legal dispute over former Lexmark executive Bruce Dahlgren, who defected to HP last January. Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Name Linksys, a division of Cisco, has been selling wireless products with the iPhone name since early last year. "We think this is silly," an Apple spokesman says. Troubled BearingPoint Replaces COO Following a year of internal turmoil, the systems integrator (No. 27 on the VARBusiness 500) brings in an Accenture veteran. >> PLUS: Dell SVP Joseph Marengi announces his retirement. HP Wins $175 Million Deal From Rockwell Collins The contract to provide technology services to the aviation manufacturing giant is the latest indication that HP's once stagnant outsourcing business is slowly gaining steam. Opinion: Excited About Another Year Hating Your Job? Then it's time to make a change, "to step up to your big, bodacious moment," says Mary Foley, VARBusiness.com's Women of the Channel columnist. For more insight and analysis, go to VARBusiness.com. This Week On the ChannelWeb Network VARBusiness: State of the Market CRN: CES Blog TechBuilder: Put Freespire Linux to Work Now Hiring Peort Systems seeking Systems Integration Senior Specialist, Service Manager in San Francisco, CA PSD Consultants seeking Manager, Integration & Web Services in Dallas, TX S and P Solutions seeking Integration Project Coordinator in Cleveland, OH ACSG seeking Clinical Integration Analyst in Tucson, AZ Sai People Solutions seeking Packaged Solution Integration Consultant in Tucson, AZ For more great jobs, career-related news, features and services, please visit CMP Media's TechCareers. Subscription Information Free Newsletters Get more industry news, analysis and research delivered directly to your desktop. Print Subscription Order Sign up for this special offer and receive CRN, the leading newsweekly for builders of technology solutions (*$220 fee waived*), and VARBusiness, the premier source of strategic insight for technology integrators (*$120 fee waived*). How To Unsubscribe You can unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time. To do so, click here. Enter your e-mail address and check the newsletter you wish to remove.		SEARCH VARBUSINESS.COM CALL FOR ENTRIES Attention: VARs Who Have Partner Programs! VARBusiness recognizes that many solution providers are evolving their businesses to include their own channel programs. By reselling their goods and services, solution providers are adapting many of the partnering models that were previously the exclusive realm of their vendors. Because of this, VARBusiness is extending its annual Partner Programs Guide to include solution providers who have channel programs. To qualify for inclusion, you must have a channel program where you resell your solutions or services through other solution providers. >> 2007 Partner Programs Guide [DEADLINE EXTENDED: JAN. 15] >> 2007 Government Partner Programs Guide [DEADLINE EXTENDED: JAN. 15] >> 2007 VARBusiness Top Channel Vendor Executives [DEADLINE: JAN. 15] TOP 5 ARTICLES, 1/8 1. Apple iPhone Hits Handset Makers' Shares 2. Displays: Go Wide, Get Bright, Sell More 3. 25 Predictions To Profit By In 2007 4. Jobs Unveils iPhone, Apple TV At Macworld 5. Microsoft Releases Next-Gen Dynamics CRM App To Partners For Testing VARBUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Tech Innovators >> Searchable Database VARs of the Year >> Searchable Database 2007 State of the Market >> Searchable Database >> Market Insight Report Annual Report Card >> Searchable Database VARBusiness 500 >> Searchable Database Partner Programs >> Searchable Database >> Top 100 Execs State of Tech >> Innovators of the Year >> Best Midmarket Products State of Distribution >> Searchable Database Alternative Vendors Women of the Channel Managed Services Center The Best of Tech Watch

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