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Last month's Finance Summit, organised by the PCA, saw some 20 representatives from distributors, reseller groups and financial organisations meet with the aim of discovering what actions the IT supply channel might take to help itself in the current financial crisis.

For the second month running, I managed to almost finish my column, all apart from the usual niceties of checking spelling and grammar ? and then something happened to make me scrap the whole thing and start again from scratch.

Leave a Kindle on a train seat while nature calls and you loose your seat and you loose the device and everything in it. Leave a book there though and it's far more likely that both will be there when you return.

I've aired my opinion that in such a fast moving industry, adaptation and evolution are the best tools retailers have. Well, the same rule applies to us as well.

Well, I can officially report that the rumours finally appear to be true. Apple UK really doesn't want any more Apple Authorised Resellers.

There is no part of the Western world that IT doesn't touch. It isn't an optional luxury; it is an essential element of today's environment and the status of IT products as a necessity is reflected in the sales stats.

Sales of desktop PCs continue to decline in favour of notebooks ? especially netbooks ? and December was no exception. Retail channel desktop sales were down 27 per cent compared to December 2007.

Apple are the latest in a long line of vendors interested in Green IT, but why are they doing it and will this continue? Christopher Dring plants a tree...

This excellent group of finalists was chosen by the entire PC Retail team following the lobbying efforts of our readers. As you would expect from this publication, the key factor in choosing a finalist was its relationship with the channel, be that as a supplier or reseller.

The lowdown on the companies battling it out for a prestigious PC Retail award - High Street Independent ? High Street Multiple ? Online Retailer ? Value Added Reseller ? Best Technical Support