Nortel Networks and Safeco Corp. recently invested $35 million in workplace eCommerce solutions provider Concur Technologies Inc., which together with some technical help from the folks in Redmond, Wash., will leverage the power of Internet procurement for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

During the past few months I’ve received a number of e-mails from readers, colleagues and associates asking me how I manage to keep up with the daily barrage of techie news. Well, here’s my secret. In the near distant past, I was forced to read a few dozen techie journals and several business magazines each […]

There’s a new kid on the block and you’d be well advised to watch this one closely because they aren’t your typical telco. 2nd Century Communications represents an exciting new breed of CLEC meets ASP, meets outsourced IT provider, called an “e.LEC.” So “what’s an e.LEC” you ask? 2nd Century is the nations first e.LEC […]

This post is a compendium of many of my articles in VARBusiness Magazine, where I ran a column on tech business trends.