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Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services

• July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11

  Redstone to pump cash into fibre development

  Managed services provider Redstone has announced a fundraising valued at close to £2.65m through a conditional placing of 212m new shares in an attempt to improve its financial position and strengthen its growth plans through fibre-optic ...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Daisy halves wholesale Ethernet costs

  Ethernet wholesaler Daisy Wholesale has slashed the cost of its Ethernet packages by 50 per cent in an attempt to get VARs selling Ethernet and EFM into Britain's SME community.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Judge tells Oracle to rethink Google Java damages claim

  A United States District Court Judge has dismissed Oracle's initial damages estimate for its Java patent case against Google after accusing the company of over-reaching in multiple ways with the "goal of seeing how much it could get away with".

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Mobile payment market growth slows in 2011

  The mobile payment market is growing slower than expected and the mass market adoption of near field communication (NFC) payments is at least four years away.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Griffin helps focus potential data network dealers

  Griffin are launching a new service for resellers in the UK who are looking for other sources of income as their customers cut their costs in an effort to improve margin.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Digium and Polycom to offer VARs £1 a day unified comms

  Telephony firms Digium and Polycom have teamed up with asset financing firm Capital Solutions Group to offer resellers the chance to buy Digium's Switchvox UC telephony kit for less than one pound per user per day.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Roberts right man to succeed Wightman at Cisco

  Following a series of structural changes to its worldwide channel operation announced yesterday, Cisco has finally broken cover and officially announced the appointment of Richard Roberts as UK and Ireland partner lead.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Cisco shuffles channel execs, holds off naming UK head

  Cisco has made a series of changes at the top of its worldwide partner organisation, shuffling its executive team and reduced the number of theatres it operates in, but contrary to speculation has remained silent over the matter of replacing UK ...

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  SAP opens up Sybase mobility solutions to VARs

  SAP VARs are being given the opportunity to sell Sybase enterprise mobility apps and solutions for the first time in a move that could provide new mobile and revenue opportunities to as many as 3,000 SAP partners.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Nokia makes Q2 loss and sales fall as it waits for Windows Phone

  Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has conceded the mobile phone company's Q2 results were "clearly disappointing" but claimed it was making "better than expected progress" as it shifts OS platform from Symbian to Windows Phone.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  F5 networks sets out market expansion plans

  F5 Networks president and CEO John McAdam spoke of the company's strong positioning in the ADC market and the new products and resources planned to expand its footprint, as the company announced its fiscal Q3 results, writes Linda Endersby.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Android to be darling of low-cost smartphone industry

  The growth of open-source operating systems such as Android, will bring down smartphone price points, driving the worldwide smartphone market to new heights, according to Juniper Research.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Alcatel-Lucent 'exploring' sale of enterprise biz

  Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed it is exploring strategic options to enhance the future of its enterprise business unit, including discussions that may lead to a sale.

• July 20, 2011 20 Jul'11

  Google introduces malware warning to search

  Google has introduced a warning system that alerts people using Google search that their computers have been infected with malware. The search giant discovered the malware when it found "some unusual search traffic while performing routine ...

• July 20, 2011 20 Jul'11

  Improving profitability cheers Datatec

  Datatec, the South Africa-based parent of Westcon and Logicalis, has said its trading and profitability are continuing to improve, with gross margins also on the up.