Recent articles by Fleur Doidge

TalkNet out for hosted services

TalkNet out for hosted services

Wholesale telecommunications provider TalkNet has signed up another 13 partners and outlined plans to launch a wide range of network-based services as as VoIP traffic surges for the company.
Fleur Doidge Jan 28 2005 2:59PM Storage
Intel reshape won't hit channel

Intel reshape won't hit channel

Intel's restructure into five global business units - including a new channel products group -- won't have any real effect locally, company executives said.
Fleur Doidge Jan 27 2005 1:41PM Hardware
Citrix to shed more partners

Citrix to shed more partners

Citrix is preparing to cut more partners from its reseller ranks this year as it sharpens its focus on tougher certification, increasing manufacturing and government sales and winning over Microsoft users.
Fleur Doidge Jan 25 2005 10:32AM Software
Jobs bites into 2005 Apple core

Jobs bites into 2005 Apple core

Apple chief Steve Jobs delivered some of the expected goods at the US MacWorld talkfest, announcing an iPod to challenge flash music player market share, the rumoured US$499 Mac and a slew of features expected for the next version of Mac OS X, codenamed Tiger.
Fleur Doidge Jan 13 2005 7:00AM Hardware
Brightpoint doubles Sydney capacity

Brightpoint doubles Sydney capacity

Specialist distributor and service provider Brightpoint is trading its Sydney office up for a location twice the size to take advantage of continuing strong growth in its mobile distribution and third-party logistics services.
Fleur Doidge Jan 7 2005 1:50PM Networking
Mystery tsunami website no hoax

Mystery tsunami website no hoax

An unofficial tsunami relief website suspected of trying to defraud charitable Australians was started by a Hobart 19-year-old whose uncle went missing in the Boxing Day tragedy.
Fleur Doidge Jan 4 2005 1:21PM Software
Ex-Macromedia staffer powers RocketBoots

Ex-Macromedia staffer powers RocketBoots

A former Macromedia staffer has re-emerged as founding head of a new professional services firm targeting business users of that vendor’s applications, such as Flash and Flex.
Fleur Doidge Dec 21 2004 3:12PM Software
Sun talks up Solaris 10 for ISVs

Sun talks up Solaris 10 for ISVs

Sun has started promoting Solaris 10 to ISVs and channel partners with a range of sweeteners, including extra help for partners porting Solaris on to x86.
Fleur Doidge Dec 15 2004 1:42PM Software
Vic clinics get 86km wireless link

Vic clinics get 86km wireless link

MIMP has launched what it believes is the world’s longest commercial wireless broadband link, linking radiology centres in Victoria’s Ballarat and Geelong in one 86km hop.
Fleur Doidge Dec 14 2004 3:00PM Networking
SecureData in debt before DiData buyout

SecureData in debt before DiData buyout

Storage reseller and service provider SecureData Group - bought late November by integrator DiData for around $1 million -- was up for sale due to serious financial difficulties, a former executive of the storage specialist has revealed.
Fleur Doidge Dec 10 2004 3:10PM Security
Vic office bears fruit for Israeli firm

Vic office bears fruit for Israeli firm

Israeli vendor RAD Data Communications has marked the end of a promising first year in Oceania, with Australian sales revenue rising 15 percent to about $8 million since the company’s regional office opened in Melbourne November 2003.
Fleur Doidge Dec 9 2004 1:55PM Software
Lenovo to get IBM PCD partners

Lenovo to get IBM PCD partners

Lenovo is set to inherit IBM’s PC business partners in its US$1.75 billion purchase of a major share in IBM’s Personal Computing Division (PCD) – a deal that has made the Chinese vendor the world’s third-largest PC business.
Fleur Doidge Dec 9 2004 9:57AM Hardware
Blades, networking to drive storage next year

Blades, networking to drive storage next year

Blade servers, iSCSI and networked storage are three themes Australian resellers can expect to harness for bigger profits from the data management sector next year, industry players said.
Fleur Doidge Dec 8 2004 2:15PM Storage
Concorde no longer flying in Brisbane

Concorde no longer flying in Brisbane

Brisbane reseller Concorde Computer has entered voluntary administration with a rumoured $1.6 million in debts after a poor October-November period was the last straw in several years of dwindling returns.
Fleur Doidge Dec 6 2004 3:33PM Hardware
Nexon buys customers from troubled NTG

Nexon buys customers from troubled NTG

Voice and data integrator Nexon Asia-Pacific has bought some 200 customer contracts from fiscally troubled service provider National Telecoms Group for an undisclosed sum.
Fleur Doidge Dec 6 2004 2:48PM Networking
UK channel strategist IDL opens Sydney shop

UK channel strategist IDL opens Sydney shop

UK-based channel marketing company IDL has opened an Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney, with a view to selling more of its channel sales programs to locally based multinationals.
Fleur Doidge Dec 3 2004 12:00AM Strategy
ISV joins ACA in anti-spam trial

ISV joins ACA in anti-spam trial

The Melbourne arm of Singapore ISP Pacific Internet has teamed up with the Australian Communications Authority to trial an anti-spam plug-in from Australian developer SpamMatters.
Fleur Doidge Dec 1 2004 12:00AM Telco/ISP
Red Crescent buys NewSat broadband for Iran aid

Red Crescent buys NewSat broadband for Iran aid

Communications provider and distributor Multiemedia has added to a string of Middle East contract wins inking a $1 million deal with the Iranian Red Crescent Society to deliver satellite broadband to disaster recovery and relief operations in Iran.
Fleur Doidge Dec 1 2004 12:00AM Telco/ISP
Software sales at risk with multiple core PCs

Software sales at risk with multiple core PCs

Software prices could skyrocket to unaffordable levels for many users in coming years as computer hardware evolves to multiple core models, a Gartner analyst has claimed.
Fleur Doidge Nov 30 2004 12:00AM Hardware
3Com promises more partner support in 2005

3Com promises more partner support in 2005

Networking vendor 3Com has sworn to do better by its channel this coming year, promising more and better demand generation, marketing development, service and support for 2005.
Fleur Doidge Nov 29 2004 12:00AM Networking

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