Database management vendor Boomcomms and UK distributor Cohort are urging VARs to cash in on the untapped possibilities of SMS.
Boomcomms produces the Boomerang suite of products, which enables firms to automate the sending and receiving of text messages.

The vendor signed up security and IP telephony specialist Cohort as its exclusive UK distributor earlier this month. [...]

Security vendor SonicWALL has appointed as a fifth UK distributor to help promote its non-firewall technologies.
Andy Zollo, sales director for Northern Europe at SonicWALL, said the appointment reflects its recent move into non-firewall technologies such as remote access, email security and backup.

“We have expanded into enterprise and now have four distinct product sets. Cohort [...]

A lost laptop containing the personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust members has sparked the latest in a growing list of information security breach alerts.
The missing machine was stolen from the offices of NorthgateArinso, suppliers of the Pensions Trust’s computerised pensions administration system, where it was being used “as a database for development, training and [...]

The UK’s MI6 had to abandon a multimillion pound covert anti-drugs operation after it lost a memory stick containing the project’s top secret information. Read more at Secure Computing.

A single lost or stolen laptop costs a business an average of nearly $50,000. At least, that’s the word from an Intel-sponsored study by the Ponemon Institute.
That figure is based on Ponemon’s recent voluntary survey of 28 US companies reporting 138 separate cases of missing laptops.

Value of missing kit was mathmagically calculated by factoring laptop [...]