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The Open Interconnect Consortium, which includes companies such as Intel and Samsung, has acquired the 15-year-old Universal Plug and Play Forum in a move designed to accelerate the unification of connectivity standards for Internet of Things devices. UPnP is used to connect wireless devices to home networks and is already said to be used in...

HP believe in reinvention. For more than 76 years, Hewlett-Packard has been making history. But they claim they’re just getting started. HP has changed and they keep reinventing their company so that customers can reinvent how they work, how they play, how they live, and how they create what matters most.

Continued demand for affordable smartphones, especially in emerging markets, drove worldwide sales of smartphones in the third quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. Global sales were 353 million units, 15.5% higher than they were in the same period in 2014. The availability of affordable smartphones drove more consumers to upgrade faster.

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise are collaborating to build applications for the healthcare, automotive, financial and retail sectors and expand Windows 10 adoption amongst enterprise customers.  HPE will also offer specialist consulting services across a range of Microsoft solutions.

The Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow by around 30% next year Gartner told delegates at its recent European Symposium. The analyst says that around 6.4 billion devices of all kinds will be connected globally, rising to 20.8 billion in 2020 when we can expect 13.5 billion consumer devices to be web connected and...

The growth in uptake of Windows 10 has been driving a wave of interest in the Lumia 640 LTE Dual SIM model. There has been heightened activity in the B2B community in particular as more businesses look to integrate mobile devices with their IT systems and provide CYOD options for customers. The Lumia 640 and...

Original article by Jack Gilbert at channelweb.co.uk Head of UK channel says he wants partners to bring Oracle’s cloud offering to ‘a much wider marketplace’ Oracle is looking to take its partners into the “new world order” of the cloud, and bring its public cloud offerings to the masses, including in the mid-market and below. Cloud...

Modern learning is increasingly reliant on digital tools as it adapts to a generation that is perpetually online and dependent upon connectivity. Schools themselves even run entire back office systems through the cloud. To support this, Europe’s largest independent IT provider, SCC, has expanded its capabilities by investing in cloud service provider SIPCOM. SIPCOM is...

Analytics firm SAS has released figures predicting that one in five shoppers is expected to spend more money on Black Friday than in the entire week leading up to Christmas. Many retailers have started early in an attempt to spread demand and beat the competition, with statistics showing that shoppers are likely to spend the...

Research shows uptake of Windows 10 has been “significantly more rapid” than Windows 7 Gartner Technology research has identified that Windows 10 is set to become the most widely used enterprise operating system ever. Reports published by Gartner claim that 50% of enterprises will have initiated deployment of Windows 10 by January 2017. This highlights...

Europe’s largest independent IT solutions provider, SCC, has been named Managed Services Provider of the Year at the prestigious CRN Channel Awards 2015. Now in its 22nd year, the CRN Channel Awards continues to represent the pinnacle of achievement in the UK market, rewarding outstanding performance in the IT channel. SCC’s win is a landmark...

A recent report by Gartner has indicated that the market for the Internet of Thing (IoT) is growing rapidly and should reach $235million in services spending next year. This report suggests the number of connected devices will rise by 30%, resulting in around 6.4 billion units worldwide. Beyond that, Gartner foresees 20.8 IoT units around the globe...