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• Lack of imagination STEMs any enthusiasm for science

  There's a massive shortage of UK children studying the core STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects; not great news for our industry, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• SCH sells distribution business – what took it so long?

  In the wake of SCH's decision to sell its distribution business, Billy MacInnes asks, why now?  Continue Reading

• Where does HP go from here?

  With more hard times still ahead for HP, Billy MacInnes wonders where the firm's turnaround will come from.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft's Metro mystery

  Microsoft may have to rename its Metro UI after a trademark dispute with a mystery European company. Billy MacInnes is on the trail.  Continue Reading

• Column: How hard can it be for Dell's premier partners to double their money?

  I have to admit to being fascinated by Dell's decision to make premier partners double the amount of business they do with the vendor if they wish to retain their status after 31 January 2013, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Team Epson UK's London to Brighton charity bike ride

  In the first of an occasional series of guest blog posts in the run up to the London to Brighton bike ride we hear how training is going for the Epson team planning to ride to the South Coast.  Continue Reading

• Will you be sleeping under the stars in October?

  Raising money for charity is something that the channel does rather well so it's great to see that Byte Night has launched its 2012 campaign to spur thoughts about its annual sleep-out event.  Continue Reading

• Column: Has Whitman found the PSG answer?

  It's an intriguing story about plans by HP to combine its PC and imaging and print divisions, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Column: Welcome to the IT shop of the future

  Worrying about the future of the channel is enough to drive anyone to drink. There's a pub full of serious drinkers that I drop into once a week. It's a place where nobody judges you because everyone has a sad story to tell.  Continue Reading

• Apple sparks the queues again

  The words 'iPad' and 'queues' seem to go hand in hand whenever there is a major product launch and sure enough it's happened again. Apple fans down under queued up to get their mitts on the latest iPad giving the vendor the sort of exposure that ...  Continue Reading

• Column: McNally showed the value of varied experience

  Very sad news about Joe McNally's death after a three year battle with cancer, writes Billy MacInnes. He was there in the Wild West days of the PC industry, starting Compaq UK in 1984 with $40,000.  Continue Reading

• Column: We should run the public sector like a Hadron Collider

  The Large Hadron Collider is a bit like our Connecting for Health programme. CERN fired billions of protons in a circuit in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the elusive Higgs Boson particle.  Continue Reading

• Column: The positive experience driving BYOD

  BYOD is a very hot topic right now. Why shouldn't it be? After all, what company is going to turn down the chance of encouraging and supporting employees to buy their own devices for work rather than having to buy them itself?  Continue Reading

• Column: Talking the language of the datacentre sale

  Firehost, Quantum, RiT and RSVP all illustrate the different approaches you can take to selling to tough customers like datacentre buyers. At the recent Cloud Expo show, it was impossible to avoid Firehost, whose branding was all over the place ...  Continue Reading

• Column: Is Britain cheapwalking into oblivion?

  British industry seems to have an almost suicidal short term fixation with being cheap. Our book publishers, for example, always gave Amazon better discounts, because it could sell more books by undercutting the book shops.  Continue Reading