Renaissance breaches banking covenant
Abnormal items drag preliminary 2009 full year result down

Apple establishes local Consultants Network
Renaissance divisions become founding members

Corrent trades Blue Coat for Tandberg
Appointment follows Adam Britten's promotion to Apac role

Certus targets IBM enterprise infrastructure business
Former Integral sales specialist Dave Hickling appointed as general manager to establish new line of business

Reverse auctions to cut government costs
Procurement reform targets panels, portals and technology

Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management
The deal will bolster its Fusion Middleware portfolio

IDC: Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 3 percent in 2010
Asia Pacific region to experience six percent growth, following one percent decline in 2009

Dell looks to buy clustered storage vendor Exanet
It's looking to extend storage sales into NAS systems

Google tries to make Gmail more like Facebook, Twitter
Could mirror move by Yahoo on status updates

Hands on with the Apple iPad
It looks and behaves like an iPhone (or iPod Touch) on steroids

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge
The ThinkPad Edge is everything you like about ThinkPads in a more attractive package

Firefox 3.6 RC gives new life to old browser
Firefox uses considerably less memory after prolonged use than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5.6

Microsoft DirectAccess: The ugly truth
The seamless secure remote access built into Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is fantastic, if you don't mind a forklift upgrade or complexity and work-arounds

Microsoft rewards partners
Cheques presented to Windows 7 competition winners

Hands on with the Dell Mini 3i smartphone
The smartphone goes on sale from China Mobile in December. Duration (1:16)

Channelling / Reseller Team
Hack NASA: it is said to be easy
It has been eight years since Gary McKinnon took a troll through the NASA and the US Department of Defence computer systems; with the US government subsequently determined to prosecute him....

Change the only constant in IT, says McArthur
SAP channel manager still loves the industry after 18 years

IT a ratings winner for Microsoft’s Landtroop
Director of small, midmarket solutions and partners started in broadcast journalism

Do your cloud maths or risk missing out
The transition to an online model will be quick and resellers need to keep up, says Brett Roberts

An amble down IT's memory lane
Will the next decade reach the highs and lows of the last, Greg Adams wonders

Diverse background culminates in two decades of reselling
Gaining the Advantage in Palmerston North

Devine Computing snares slice of accounting software market
Chris Devine makes the most of finance and IT industry background

Chrome gaining ground in a war without a winner
Chrome has inched into third place - a distant third - among web browsers, but the real question is "who cares?"

Gadget patents that could be game-changers
They're clever. They're creative. And some of them are just plain bizarre. How come we can't buy products based on them, asks Harry McCracken