Year: 2012

  • Konica Minolta Unveils Managed IT, Managed Print Services

    Nathan Eddy

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    Digital printing technologies and business intelligence services provider Konica Minolta Business Solutions announced the launch of a managed IT and managed print services program for its dealer community. Under the new Managed IT and Print Services program, dealers will be able to offer customers desktop management, email security, server and network monitoring and 24/7 client… Read more

  • IBM Showcases Beta for IBM Docs , Next Gen of Collaborative Suite of Office Business Tools

    Channel Insider Staff

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    ORLANDO, FL–At Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta version of its next iteration of IBM Docs, formerly known as Lotus Symphony. Available now on Greenhouse, the cloud-based set of social document editors includes a suite of office-productivity applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. IBM Docs was designed to help teams share… Read more

  • Cisco, EMC, SAP Back Cloud Portability Standards Initiative

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a non-profit international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information space, launched an open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will… Read more

  • Microsoft Promises Skype Integration for Windows Phone

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    Despite being owned by Microsoft, the company’s mobile Windows Phone operating system still doesn’t have an application by voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype, but that will change soon, Microsoft’s Skype division Vice President Rick Osterloh promised in an interview during last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some analysts are predicting the… Read more

  • IBM Talks Social Business at Lotusphere

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    ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM kicked off Lotusphere 2012 today, with a general session that demonstrated the many uses, benefits and faces of social business. This year’s Lotusphere and Connect conferences underscored the importance of socially-enabling business processes–from the three-song set by Ok Go–a band whose success was partially fueled by the popularity of its award-winning… Read more

  • Wikipedia Will Shutter in Protest of SOPA, PIPA

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    Wikipedia plans on undergoing a self-imposed blackout Jan. 18, in protest of proposed legislation that it says would harm a free and open Internet. The legislation in question includes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The bills are intended to… Read more