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Sales in Asia-Pacific increase 24 percent.
Reseller encouraged by ATO's stance.
Adobe makes US$240m bid for Day Software 
By Rick Whiting | Jul 29, 2010
Acquisition will add content management to Adobe's development tools.
 
itX posts record profit but struggles with Oracle, Sun 
 
SAP completes Sybase buy 
By Liam Tung | Jul 28, 2010
Expects revenue to rise.
 
Larry Ellison tops WSJ pay list 
By Liam Tung | Jul 28, 2010
Rich list for the decade.
 
WatchGuard partners with Visa for card program 
By Negar Salek | Jul 26, 2010
Reports its most successful quarter on record in Australia.
 
Microsoft claims strong quarterly earnings 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 23, 2010
Uptake in IT spending credited for record numbers.
 
Analyst casts doubt over Nokia's hopes for the N8 
By Miya Knights | Jul 23, 2010
Questions linger over smartphone's potential to save Kallasvuo or Nokia.
 
Yahoo posts 20 percent rise in advertising revenue 
Jul 22, 2010
Slow revenue growth, but profit has more than doubled.
 
European Commission approves SAP's Sybase buy 
By Dan Worth | Jul 22, 2010
Market will not be unduly affected by merger, says Commission.
 
EMC posts impressive quarterly numbers 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 22, 2010
Company claims best ever cash flow.
 
Woolworths consumer electronics sales drop in A/NZ 
 
Strong licensing, services sales give VMware 2Q boost 
By Jeff O'Heir & Joseph F. kovar | Jul 21, 2010
VMware reports strong financial growth.
 
iPad, iPhone fuel record quarter for Apple 
By Rick Whiting | Jul 21, 2010
Apple revenues up more than 61 percent.
 
Google buys semantic web database firm 
By Miya Knights | Jul 20, 2010
Metaweb deal designed to improve search results using open database.
 
Data#3 on track for bumper year 
Jul 19, 2010
Earnings and revenue lift 13 percent.
 
NTT, DiData merger concerns raised 
Jul 19, 2010 | 1 Comment 
History shows tough road ahead.
 
Dell moves to settle SEC accounting case 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 19, 2010
Company will offer terms to end accounting row.
 
Sony Ericsson profits rise on Android sales 
By Miya Knights | Jul 19, 2010
Handset maker reports positive quarter, but fails to meet analyst estimates.
 
Google's quarterly results fail to impress 
By Iain Thomson | Jul 19, 2010
Solid growth, but search firm misses expectations.
 
AMD breaks sales record for last quarter 
By Iain Thomson | Jul 19, 2010
Sales of 6000 series servers quadruple.
 
DiData wins Defence reform contract 
By Liz Tay | Jul 19, 2010
Defence inks networking, data centre and support deals.
 
Losing bidders for Palm revealed 
By David Neal | Jul 19, 2010
Apple, RIM and Google all wanted a piece of the action, claims report.
 
DiData, NTT merge for the cloud 
By Negar Salek | Jul 16, 2010
Local operations unchanged, for now.
 
NTT to buy Dimension Data 
By Jennifer Bosavage | Jul 16, 2010
NTT makes US$3 billion offer to buy Dimension Data.
 
Dick Smith defends debit card decision 
By Liz Tay | Jul 16, 2010 | 3 Comments 
Blames financial institutions for EFTPOS fees.
 
Interview: Inside the Atlassian-Accel deal 
By Nate Cochrane | Jul 16, 2010
Counterculture coders set to expand with $68 million cash injection.
 
US investor ploughs $68m into Australian developer 
By Nate Cochrane | Jul 15, 2010
Biggest Australian investment round this year.
 
Motorola rumoured to be selling telecoms division 
By Dan Worth | Jul 15, 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks front runner for assets, says report.
 
Apple stocks take a hit 
By Chad Berndtson | Jul 15, 2010
Apple's bad press for iPhone 4 hits Apple where it hurts.
 
Cellnet buys back 15,421 shares  
By Negar Salek | Jul 14, 2010 | 1 Comment 
Founder Stephen Harrison resigns, keeps shares.
 
Semiconductor industry bullish and expecting a record year 
By Iain Thomson | Jul 14, 2010
SEMICON West 2010 kicks off on a high note.
 
CSG opens Adelaide office 
By Negar Salek | Jul 12, 2010
CSG wins SA government contracts.
 
Receivers shut six more Clive Peeters stores 
By Negar Salek | Jul 8, 2010
Harvey Norman completes takeover.
 
HTC seeing profits surge from Android 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 7, 2010
Handset maker records 58 percent jump in revenue.
 
EMC to acquire Greenplum in data warehousing play 
EMC steps into the data warehousing market for the first time.
 
NSW to build defence industry tech hub 
By Liz Tay | Jul 7, 2010
Seeks expressions of interest.
 
Synergy Plus enters heads of agreement to buy AirData 
Jul 6, 2010
Leaps into enterprise mobility.
 
Microsoft partner HubOne relaunches as cloud integrator 
By Negar Salek | Jul 6, 2010
Vendor incentives key to transition.
 
Macquarie Telecom to pump $15m into hosting 
Jul 6, 2010
Drives preliminary earnings upgrade.
 
UXC does the numbers on trade sale 
By Brett Winterford | Jul 5, 2010
Unnamed suitor looking to swallow UXC.
 
Google acquires airline information service ITA 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 5, 2010
Search giant moves into travel market.
 
Gartner revises 2010 IT spending 
Thanks mainly to economic issues in Europe.
 
SAP pushes back Sybase buy 
By Shaun Nichols | Jul 5, 2010
Deadline extended to mid-July.
 
Comment: Attack of the greys 
By Sydney Borg | Jul 2, 2010 | 6 Comments 
Vendors and disties must stop parallel imports killing the channel.
 
Senetas acquires UK-based reseller  
By Negar Salek | Jun 29, 2010
Melbourne-based company establishes European presence.
 
Palm shareholders approve HP deal 
Jun 29, 2010
Takeover deal expected to close on 1 July.
 
DiData wins $1.3m DFAT Exchange deal 
By Kelly Mills | Jun 28, 2010
DFAT dumps Lotus Notes for Exchange, SharePoint.
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CRN Magazine

Issue: 281 | July

CRN Magazine looks in-depth at the emerging issues and developments for the Channel, and provides insight, analysis and strategic information to help resellers better run their businesses.