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December 30, 2008   Brought to you by Ziff Davis Enterprise On-the-Go News for IT Resellers, VARs and Tech Partners! From our knowledgeable and trusted editors comes the latest content for the Channel, now available on your handheld device. Visit mobile.channelinsider.com. • Microsoft, Apple, Google Sued by VAR for Patent Infringement • Most Popular Channel Insider Articles of 2008 • Turning Dane-Elec's ZPen into a Digital Ink Powerhouse • Unisys Restructures to Cut $225 million in Expenses • Ode to Broken Windows (Vista) • Factors for Profitability in 2009 Lenovo Cranks Up the Green with M58p PC The M58p ThinkCentre promises to be the greenest, most manageable, and the most secure PC to date from Lenovo, but does it live up to the hype? READ MORE >> Security Convergence Wave The division between physical and logical security is blurring quickly. Cross-over technologies and new vendor initiatives are creating opportunities for IT security specialists to expand into the domain of guns, gates and guards. WATCH NOW >> Backup Opportunities Go Online In this Changing Channels podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Chris Shin, the senior director of product management for the Symantec Protection Network, explains the various strategies solution providers can employ to create an online service for backup. LISTEN NOW >> Microsoft, Apple, Google Sued by VAR for Patent Infringement Recently awarded a patent for file icons, Cygnus Systems is suing major vendors--some which it partners with--for violating its intellectual property. If successful, the company could extract royalties from operating system to Web browswer to cloud-based application publishers. READ MORE >> Most Popular Channel Insider Articles of 2008 The failing economy, presidential politics and energy costs dominated the headlines in 2008, but what stories were really important to you. Channel Insider recounts its most-read articles of the year. READ MORE >> Turning Dane-Elec's ZPen into a Digital Ink Powerhouse Review: Despite the advances in technology, many businesses are still awash in paper forms, notes and documents! Solution providers can help clean up that mess and secure that data by incorporating some inexpensive tools, such as the Zpen, into electronic forms solutions or reduced paper initiatives. READ MORE >> Unisys Restructures to Cut $225 million in Expenses Unisys, one of the largest solution providers, is struggling under the weight of the recession. As part of its restructuring, it will lay off 1,300 employees and cease matching contributions to 401K plans. READ MORE >> Five Open Source Security Myths Dispelled Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? DOWNLOAD NOW >> Deploying a UC Infrastructure: 5 Areas You Need to Focus On Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 provides the key elements needed to create a highly available, unified communications infrastructure. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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