Year: 2008
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Analyst: iPhone Faces Several Business Challenges
Categories: News and TrendsThe iPhone is making slow inroads into the enterprise, which has traditionally been the stronghold of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, but some of the barriers to adoption may be beyond Apple’s control. In a recent study that sampled its general user base, wireless bill auditing firm Validas found that of a sample size of 625… Read more
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Intel Debuts Powerful, Energy-Saving Core i7 Processor
The Intel Core i7 processor officially debuted on Monday afternoon, and PC makers including Dell and Gateway, quickly followed suit with announcements about products using the new chip. The Intel Core i7 processor speeds processor-intensive applications like video editing and immersive games "by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption," Intel said in a… Read more
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SOA Could Rebound as Recession-Busting Strategy
Categories: News and TrendsService Oriented Architecture. The term, typically abbreviated to SOA, is a mouthful. It turns out it’s hard to explain as well, and as a result, making a case to customers for return on investment isn’t exactly easy. Determining ROI, in fact, is the greatest challenge developers working on SOA implementations say they face, according to… Read more
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Businesses Slash Spending Across the Board
Categories: News and TrendsBusinesses Slash Spending Across the Board Businesses large and small are cutting their spending-IT, staffing, marketing and sales-in response to either decreasing business or anticipation of lower revenues as a result of the recession. According to Computer Economics, the following are some of the key areas where companies are cutting spending and, in some cases,… Read more
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Microsoft Launches Exchange, SharePoint Services
Microsoft dove deeper into the software-as-a-service market today with the general release of Exchange Online and Office SharePoint Online, offering the hosted applications both directly and through solution providers. The general availability of hosted Exchange e-mail and SharePoint collaboration server come as no surprise; Microsoft has carried beta versions of the two services for… Read more
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iPhone Gaining Favor Among Business Users
Apple’s iPhone is finally starting to permeate the business community, driven by the release of business-friendly software for the 3G version in July and increasing popularity of the device among younger users. While Research in Motion still holds the lion’s share of the market for mobile text and voice devices, solution providers should start gearing… Read more