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EMC for now is quiet about the details of its planned restructuring of its channel program, but it is clear on one thing: It will be a comprehensive program that will bring partners together not only on its products but also on its core big data, cloud and trust.

Gregg Ambulos, Senior Vice President, Global Channel Sales, and Terry Breen, Senior Vice President, Strategic Sales, Alliances and Service Providers, EMC, used the EMC World conference to introduce the EMC Business Partner initiative, which is scheduled to replace the decade-old EMC Velocity channel program starting January 1, 2014.

Ambulos said that the EMC Business Partner program is still in an exploratory phase, and so the company is hesitant to release details at this point. Find more…

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The flamboyant entrepreneur, who is facing extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. over copyright infringement allegations, plans to launch easy-to-use yet secure communications services.

Not content with sticking two fingers up at the authorities with his Mega secure cloud storage service, larger-than-life entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is planning to release further privacy-centric services. And interestingly, in a Q&A session with the New Zealand Herald late last night, Dotcom said he intended the secure email and instant messaging services to be both military-grade and so easy to use that the user wouldnt have to do anything to benefit from this security.

This is always the issue with security – if it requires much thought on the users part, it will generally fail. D

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If you love building computers, you probably appreciate a good case or chassis. While there are plenty of excellent products available for a song, there’s also an upper echelon of models that cost quite a bit and offer all the premiere features you could hope for. While it seems as though there’s a lot of similarity between low-end and midrange cases, once you get to a certain price point, various companies take things in very different directions. The three premium chassis we’re looking at in this roundup certainly bear that out.

In Win, Lian Li, and SilverStone all make some beautiful cases. And when we asked them to send us one of their top of the line products, they all responded in kind: In Win with the unique H-Frame, Lian Li with the tall, all-black PC-X2000FN, and Silverstone with the Fortress FT02. (Regular readers w Find more…

If you’ve ever been frustrated by the fact that you struggle to get Wi-Fi in your bedroom – or your bathroom, for that matter – there is a solution.

The devolo dLAN 500 AV Wireless+ starter kit promises to combine all the features of a high-performance Powerline adapter in one housing.

It features integrated WiFi for an optimal connection to wireless terminal devices such as a smartphone or laptop, three LAN ports for connecting network-compatible devices and means that you’ll never be too far away from a connection to your broadband no matter how big your house is.

How it works

You plug the delovo dLAN 500 AVplus adapter into a power socket near your router and then connect the two with the included network cable.

Elsewhere in your house you plug in the second devolo dLAN 500 AV Wireless+ adapter included in the Starter Kit box and either connect devices to it with a standard network cable, or wirelessly via your device’s standard Wi-Fi connection.

Benefits

One of the biggest benefits of the dLAN Powerline adapter for Internet is that whether you are connecting other devices to the system or not, all the devices in the room have an optimum connection rather than trying to cover the long distance back to the router.

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Dell has launched a Partner Advisory Council. The announcement was made at the ongoing Partner Summit in Bengaluru.

Over the next year, the council, consisting of 10-15 key Dell partners will provide feedback, share ideas and discuss strategies and programs to augment sales and address enterprise customer needs. The partners will be selected on the basis of their depth of understanding of customer needs.

Richard Lee, Global Vice President & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Global Commercial Channels, Dell, said, “We are very proud of the pace at with the GCC is growing in India. I Find more…

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The European Union approved the merger of Random House and Penguin without conditions on Friday, saying it doesnt pose a threat to competition. The U.S. approved the merger in February.

The European Union cleared the merger of publishers Random House and Penguin on Friday, saying it does not pose a risk to competition.

The EU said the merger doesnt threaten competition.

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Are business oriented tablets such as the Dell Latitude 10 better suited for the workplace than popular mainstream tablets such as the iPad? Dell believes their solutions are. Last month, Dell issued a press release in which it claimed its Latitude 10 Enhanced Security tablet is “up to 17 times faster and 94 percent less expensive to deploy than iPads in large scale enterprise implementations.” Those are bold claims with very specific figures to back them up.

Regardless of how you feel about Apple, Dell, or another manufacturer’s products, one thing is certain: the use of tablets for business purposes is gaining significant traction. Recognizing that different users have different needs, Dell is attempting to cater to a variety of usage models with its Latitude 10 tablet.

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