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T-Mobile and Nokia will debut the Lumia 710 next week, if a new report about an FCC filing proves correct. The blog WPCentral reported Dec. 7 that T-Mobile had filed the manual and associated materials for the Nokia 710 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). T-Mobile and Nokia have tried to maintain a veil of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard and secure content-sharing specialist Box announced a partnership to provide small and midsize businesses with an integrated collaboration experience to a range of users–from the individual to the enterprise–for storing and managing content in the cloud. HP is offering the Box cloud content management and collaboration platform on select SMB and enterprise […]

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard continue to push their cloud computing agendas with new offerings and services. Cisco executives, including Lew Tucker, CTO of cloud computing at the vendor, and Padmasree Warrior, senior vice president of engineering and CTO of Cisco, are expected to discuss the company’s cloud strategy and unveil a host of new technologies […]

EMC announced its findings from a global survey of the data science community, which showed that only one third of the companies polled are making effective use of data. The EMC survey covers the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China, and it reveals and quantifies a rampant scarcity across the globe […]

Dell is discontinuing its Streak 7 tablet, a few months after killing the smaller Streak 5. Together, that means the end of the manufacturer s first foray into Android-based tablets. Streak 7 is no longer available online, read a new note on Dell’s Website, but you can browse our other mobile devices for similar products. […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced the acquisition of Hiflex Software, a privately held software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1991, Hiflex is headquartered in Aachen, Germany. Following the acquisition, Hiflex will continue to service its current customers, HP said […]

IT managers are beginning to view the data center more holistically and are taking a more strategic approach to technology procurement and deployment, and technology and service providers that sell into the data center will want to broaden their marketing approach, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The company identified six ways […]

Should SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) consummate its $3.4 billion offer to acquire Web-based human resources software maker SuccessFactors (NASDAQ:SFSF), it will give the enterprise application giant some much needed credibility in cloud computing versus rivals Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL). SAP certainly showed that it needs the clout, paying $40 per share, or roughly a 52 […]