Year: 2011

  • Rebit, Carbonite Team for Cloud-Based Backup for Desktop Devices

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    Rebit, which makes what it cheerfully calls “ridiculously simple” backup software for consumers and small busineses, said Dec. 5 that version 5 of its backup software has been integrated into Carbonite’s new Home Premier data protection suite. Rebit, which has created a foothold in the desktop disk backup business in 2008 by building single-purpose plug-and-play… Read more

  • Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store to Challenge Apple, Google

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    With its newly unveiled Windows Store, Microsoft is aiming for a market long dominated by Apple, and coveted by other rivals such as Google. The long-anticipated online storefront, integrated into Windows 8, will give consumers and business users access to a wide variety of apps and games. For third-party developers, the chance to port their… Read more

  • Cisco’s Ethernet Switch Market Share Rises: IDC

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    Cisco Systems, which earlier this year said it was refocusing on its core businesses, saw its share of the competitive Ethernet switch market jump almost 3 percentage points in the third quarter, according to numbers from market research firm IDC. In their review of the networking space in the third quarter, the IDC analysts on… Read more

  • AMD Helping Project to Bring Android to PCs

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    Advanced Micro Devices reportedly is backing an open-source project that is looking to port Google’s Android operating system onto PCs powered by x86-based processors. Meanwhile, officials with AMD rival Intel are saying that the goal of their joint efforts with Google is not to bring Android to PCs, but to enable it to run on… Read more

  • SonicWall Mobile Connect App Offers VPN

    Nathan Eddy

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    Network security and data protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced the release of the Mobile Connect application, which runs on iOS 4.2 and higher, for Apple devices such as the iPad and iPhone. For users of SonicWall’s SSL VPN and Next-Generation Firewall product lines, the Mobile App, available via Apple’s App Store, enables secure remote access… Read more

  • Higher Salaries, More Jobs for IT Pros in 2012

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Even with several negative economic indicators nagging workers worried about availability of jobs, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released late last week and a survey out this week by online employment site Dice show that technology professionals have been more isolated than most from market woes. According to BLS, unemployment only… Read more