Year: 2010

  • Motorola Unveils Rugged Enterprise WiFi Device

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    Motorola Solutions is introducing the MC55A0, a WiFi-enabled enterprise handheld that the company is calling the industry’s most rugged. Designed for customer-facing applications, outfitted with government-grade security features and able to withstand 1,000 tumbles in a rotating tumble drum, the device strives to marry field toughness with office efficiency. Motorola developed the device for vertical… Read more

  • Labor Market for IT Pros Stagnating: Report

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    U.S. employment numbers released by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed a net gain of 4,400 IT-related jobs in November for the sixth straight month of net jobs gains in IT labor segments. Five bellweather IT job segments in the BLS data showed a net gain of 45,100 jobs from June… Read more

  • Salesforce.com Challenges Oracle in Database Market

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    Salesforce — the world’s biggest maker of cloud-based software that its customers access over the Internet — announced its new Database.com service on Tuesday as it diversifies its lineup of software programs for businesses. The company has long generated the bulk of its revenue from selling software for managing corporate sales and marketing activities, but… Read more

  • Nimbula Announces Public Beta for Cloud Operating System Software

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    At the Gartner Data Center Conference, Nimbula, a cloud operating system company, today announced the availability of the public beta of its Nimbula Director product, which delivers Amazon EC2-like services behind the firewall. The software is now available for free download via the company’s Website, according to a company release. Director is designed to transform… Read more

  • Consumer Health Tech Booms With Smartphones, Tablets

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    Consumers are increasingly using smartphone and tablet PCs, such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, to monitor their own health. This, according to a Dec. 6 report from research firm Ovum, is leading to the consumerization of health care technology. The report "2011 Trends to Watch: Health Care Technology" discusses how consumer… Read more

  • Juniper Networks Acquires Virtualization Security Specialist

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    Dec 6 (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE:JNPR) bought Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for "virtualization" technology, for $95 million. Virtualization technology allows multiple machines to run on a single host computer, and is increasingly popular among large corporations trying to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The… Read more