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Global CIO: Microsoft Slams Oracle For Limiting Choice But Seeks x86 Hegemony
Riddle me this: Oracle's integrated systems limit competition, which is bad, but it should kill Sparc to limit Wintel competition, which is good.
Dell Forges E-Health Partnership With AMA
The American Medical Association and Dell will offer physicians one-stop-shopping for electronic health products.
Windows Phone 7: Hail Mary
If the story at Ars Technica is to be believed, Microsoft really is starting with a clean slate with its Windows Phone 7 platform. That seems like a good idea, because the old slate wasn't tearing up the market. However, Microsoft's new platform seems like it's betting on a slate of proprietary technologies that haven't yet been proven in the mobile world.
Sprint And Verizon Both Pushing webOS 1.4 Update
Sprint began making webOS 1.4 available to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi during the early morning hours on February 27. Verizon customers had to wait an additional 24 hours before their devices began updating, too. The new version of webOS brings system-wide improvements.
RSA: Microsoft Tries To Turn Shady Internet Trustworthy
The company is releasing software to improve the process of online identification and authentication.
DoD Loosens Social Media Restrictions
Soldiers and other Department of Defense employees may now access and use sites such as Facebook and Flickr via unclassified Defense networks.
IBM, Shell Team Up On Oil Exploration
Big Blue will lend its analytics expertise to Shell's efforts to extend the life of gas and oil fields.
Newer, Cheaper iPhone(s) To Debut In June
June and Apple's WWDC are approaching swiftly. Though we're still three-plus months out, reports of what Apple plans to announce are already taking shape. Morgan Stanley believes that new models are coming, and they'll be cheaper to buy and cheaper to own.
Clearwire Notches Subscriber Gains, 4Q Loss
The wireless carrier expects its 4G WiMax network to cover up to 120 million people by year end.
Twitter Phishing Attack Hooks UK Cabinet Minister
The company is warning people not to surrender personal details to fake Twitter login pages.
Prepaid Puts Pressure On Wireless Carriers
T-Mobile, MetroPCS, and Leap pre-paid customers generally pay less for mobile service than contract subscribers.
Software Update Bricking Motorola CLIQ
Users who downloaded and installed an unofficial software update for the Motorola CLIQ are seeing red. Turns out there are major bugs in the update that essentially brick the CLIQ. T-Mobile's advice? Don't update.
AMD Intros ATI Radeon HD 5830
The graphics card supports up to three monitors and has processing power of 1.79 teraFLOPS.
The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors For SMBs
The most strategic vendors for SMBs may be the same as for large enterprises. Or, the local and regional vendors that keep serve the IT needs of smaller businesses may just fly under the radar of national and global vendor rankings.
Palm CEO Addresses The Troops
In light of the bad financial news coming from Palm, CEO Jon Rubinstein took the opportunity to shore up the confidence of Palm employees. He sent a company wide email that outlines what the company is doing to get fully back on track.
No Flash Love For Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Windows Mobile can't catch a break. Since the announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress, WinMo 6.5.3 has been cast aside like an old toy on Christmas morning. The latest kick in the stomach comes from Adobe. All plans to provide Flash 10 for WinMo have been halted as the software developer targets WinPho 7 this fall.
NComputing Cuts Virtualized Desktop Costs
With an extra-slender thin client and its vSpace software, NComputing has virtualized 2.5 million desktops.
The Google Buzz New User Experience
Last November I took a look at the user experience for a new user who attempts to access Twitter.com. Now I'd like to provide the same new user experience overview for a person attempting to use Google Buzz.
Survey Reveals Reasons SMBs Choose Managed Services
A survey conducted by Hurwitz & Associates of Dell Managed Services customers elicits some of the reasons SMBs are drawn to managed services and some of the benefits the participants have realized.
QuorumLabs Introduces Business Continuity Appliance
OnQ 2.0 combines backup with virtual machines to give SMBs a way to get up and running immediately after any kind of server failure.
Apple iPhone Users Buy More Apps
Users of competing mobile devices appear to be less keen to open their wallets.
SMBs Using Social Media More. . . Reluctantly
Recent reports indicate the SMB use of social media is increasing at a steady clip, but other research finds that the commitment may be lackluster.
Google Culls Gmail Labs
The company is promoting six Gmail Labs experiments and getting rid of five.
Server Market Data Signals Rebound
Data on worldwide server sales indicates that businesses are starting to increase spending on their IT infrastructures.
How Twitter is Revolutionizing Business
The buzzed-about social media platform presents a direct channel to customers, a launching pad for new projects and a sounding board for innovation.
webOS 1.4 Changelog Leaks With Suspicious Timing
Just after Palm released some bad news today about its sales forecasts, the changelog for webOS version 1.4 has mysteriously surfaced. There are genuinely good changes in store for webOS devices. Let's take a look.
Microsoft Decapitates Waledac Botnet
A major source of spam and malware has been cut off from its controllers.
Palm Sales Lower Than Expected
Tough competition from Android handsets and Apple's iPhone hurt Palm's quarterly revenue forecast.
FCC Wants Broadband Public Safety Network
As part of the National Broadband Plan, the FCC wants to make a portion of the 700-mhz spectrum available for a nationwide wireless public safety network.
Microsoft Licenses Multimedia File System To Panasonic
Panasonic will license Microsoft's exFAT file system, which makes it easier to exchange multimedia files across devices.
Genband To Buy Nortel VoIP Unit For $182 Million
Nortel's VOIP unit is the networking equipment company's last remaining business operation.
Microsoft To End Support For Older Windows Versions
Windows Vista RTM, Windows XP SP2, and Windows 2000 are nearing the end of official support period.
Palm: 'Slower Than Expected Consumer Adoption' Of WebOS
If things looked bad earlier this week for Palm, they look worse now. Palm updated its guidance for the current quarter and the numbers have been revised downward. The new numbers will be "well below its previously forecasted range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion."
J&J Uses Dashboards to Run the Business
At this week's IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto, David Haigh of Johnson & Johnson presented on how the company is using dashboards for process improvement efforts.
Scribd Launches Mobile Document Sharing App
Non-copyrighted documents can be sent from a PC to smartphones, Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and the Sony Reader.
Chip Revenue To Grow By 20%
The surge in semiconductor revenue forecast by Gartner for 2010 will be driven by steady growth in PC shipments.
FCC Chief Proposes Mobile Spectrum Auction
Julius Genachowski sees broadcast television spectrum as a major part of the agency's strategic planning as it works to accommodate a surge in mobile data traffic.
PocketGear Acquires Handango
If you have had any kind of smartphone in the past decade, you are probably aware of and have even used PocketGear or Handango to purchase your apps. Now these two software retailers are combining their catalogs to go head to head against platform owned stores like Apple's App Store and Microsoft's Marketplace for Windows Mobile. Will it help them survive though?
Gmail Labs: Six Graduate, Five Flunk
Google recently announced that it has promoted six Gmail Labs features to become full-time, regular options within Gmail. Sadly, at the same time, five precious Labs have lost their struggle for relevance and are being, in Google parlance, "retired."
4 Steps To Avoid Social Media Landmines
Many business owners are embracing social media for marketing and customer retention, but don't guard against legal exposure and threats to business reputation. Get started with these four steps.
Server Sales Up 4.5% In 4Q
The good news was tempered by plummeting sales of high-end systems, resulting in an overall 3.2% drop in global revenue, said Gartner.
Google Faces European Antitrust Scrutiny
The European Commission says it is looking into three separate complaints about Google.
Skype Yanks Windows Mobile App From Site
For some unknown reason, Skype is no longer making Skype and Skype Lite available to the Windows Mobile platform. Skype's support page says, "We felt that Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were not offering the best possible Skype experience." What gives? Updated with explanation from Skype.
CA Buys 3Tera Cloud Startup
3Tera supplies a graphically oriented system for configuring an application prior to deployment, including deployment as a virtual machine into the cloud.
Bloom Debuts Clean Energy Power Box
The company says its "power plant-in-a-box" is a breakthrough in fuel cell-driven clean energy, but some question whether the price is too high.
Cablevision Intros PC To TV Service
The wireless service will allow Cablevision subscribers to display online video, photos, e-mail, and other data on their television screens.
Google Execs Convicted In Italy
The ruling in a YouTube privacy case, if not overturned on appeal, could put an end to online user-generated content in parts of the world.
Microsoft Announces Government Cloud
The Business Productivity Online Suite Federal is hosted on a government-dedicated infrastructure in secured facilities within Microsoft's own data centers.
Intermedia Launches Hosted UC For SMBs
The offering combines unified communications with the low-cost, turnkey appeal of SaaS, but it is still not clear that SMBs see the value of UC.
Alaska Airlines To Offer Aircell Wi-Fi
The airline has dropped plans to install Row 44's satellite wireless Internet on its planes and will instead go with the cellular-based Gogo system.
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