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eWEEK Labs took a first run at Microsoft SharePoint 2010, testing it both on Microsoft’s equipment and at eWEEK Lab’s own set up in San Francisco. The software requires strong familiarity with Windows Server and Active Directory, and administrators should also have knowledge of SQL Server. >>Click here to read the rest of eWEEK Labs […]

Google May 6 said it will enable users to access Google Reader, Blogger and Picasa Web Albums from Google Apps in fall 2010, satisfying nine of the top 20 requests Apps users make from the company. Google is moving Google Apps customers to a new infrastructure where they will be able to access Google Web […]

Apple is catching up to Research In Motion in a smartphone market that saw 54.7 million units ship in the first quarter of 2010, up 56.7 percent from the first quarter of 2009. Nokia commanded the lion’s share of the burgeoning market, shipping 21.5 million units for the quarter to take 39.3 percent of the […]

Some 48 percent of iPad users accessing Yahoo’s network of sites visited Yahoo on the iPhone previously, said Yahoo researchers May 6. Apple’s iPad tablet computer has rocketed to more than 1 million sales in less than a month, with the 3G version tacking on more sales upon its release last weekend. The device uses […]

Notebook PCs in 2010 are on track to post solid double-digit growth due to improved economic conditions worldwide as well as the expected expansion of two high-achieving segments, netbooks and Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage (CULV) notebooks, according to a recent report by research firm iSuppli Corp. Overall notebook PC shipments will hit 209.5 million units in […]

Apple’s iPad may cannibalize sales of related devices, including notebooks and the iPod Touch, according to a March survey by Alphawise, Morgan Stanley’s specialized internal research team. Some 44 percent of iPad owners surveyed said they would forgo purchasing a notebook, while 24 percent said MacBooks and 20 percent said PCs. “U.S. consumer PC, and […]

Microsoft will launch Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 May 12, offering the platforms to businesses roughly a month before consumers. With that release, Microsoft hopes to maintain its dominant market share in the productivity segment despite upcoming challenges from cloud-based applications such as Google Apps. Microsoft originally released the beta versions of Office 2010, SharePoint […]

A 49-year-old man has become the latest person brought down by a federal investigation targeting people trafficking in counterfeit Cisco network hardware. “Ehab Ashoor, 49 … [of] Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced in the Southern District of Texas to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $119,400 in restitution to Cisco Systems, the Department of […]

IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field. IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their Almaden Research facilities to take public health data that’s already been collected to help government agencies, businesses and health care providers develop strategies to better take on a host of […]

Distributed enterprise networking technology vendor Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN) will acquire Azalea Networks, a supplier of outdoor mesh networks. The stock deal is worth about $27 million, plus up to an additional $13.5 million in cash over two years. Azalea offers mesh products for outdoor industrial applications in the oil and gas, logistics, manufacturing, mining, petrochemical, […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, Microsoft’s .NET was rated the best overall framework by software developers, over competing frameworks from Google and others. In Evans Data’s recently released Users’ Choice Survey on Frameworks, the market research company asked developers to rank 10 different attributes of the frameworks they have used. Microsoft’s .NET came […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Seagate on May 5 launched a new generation of its FreeAgent external storage hard drives, naming them GoFlex — with the spotlight on connection flexibility. The key new feature throughout the line is this: Never again will a user have to buy a whole new drive just because the USB port has […]