Posts Tagged ‘ cloud-computing

Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones 11 March 2010 at 6:25 am by admin

Motorola will start loading Microsoft’s Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China .

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+ Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs By admin 11 March 2010 at 5:00 am and have No Comments

Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage — they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who’ve bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise

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+ CA to buy Nimsoft By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:19 pm and have No Comments

CA said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy IT performance monitoring vendor Nimsoft for $350 million.

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+ Reader exploit prompts Adobe update alert By admin 10 March 2010 at 11:34 am and have No Comments

Users of Adobe PDF Reader should check they are running the latest version of the software after the discovery of an exploit that takes advantage of a serious flaw patched only three weeks ago .

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+ HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash By admin 10 March 2010 at 9:28 am and have No Comments

With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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+ XenApp 6 centralizes management, adds Android and Mac support By admin 10 March 2010 at 9:22 am and have No Comments

Citrix Systems has launched version 6 of XenApp, its platform for centralized application delivery that features centralized management and access to Windows applications from Android-based smartphones and Apple computers, the company said on Wednesday.

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+ EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:29 am and have No Comments

Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers contains several “troubling” clauses that paint the company as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request

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+ Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:42 am and have No Comments

Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.

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+ IT gives Windows 7 the green light By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:00 am and have No Comments

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista — but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista’s successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP

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+ Google opens Google Apps Marketplace By admin 09 March 2010 at 9:00 pm and have No Comments

Google will launch on Tuesday evening Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google’s own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents, Sites and Calendar.

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