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In a survey of 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, software developer Oasys found that a full 96 percent of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management, with one in five saying their company faces "high risk." The survey results of the company’s September 2011 Business […]

More than 4.5 million tablet computers based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system shipped in the third quarter, comprising 27 percent of the market shipments, according to research released by Strategy Analytics Oct. 21. Android’s tablet share pales in comparison to the 67 percent table share enjoyed by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, which the company said […]

Can a lower-cost Windows Phone carve off a significant portion of the smartphone market? After months of positioning its smartphone platform as the counterpoint to high-end competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and some Google Android devices, Microsoft plans on aiming Windows Phone at a less-pricey market segment. “We are dramatically broadening the set of price […]

Near the end of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs, the author steps aside to let his subject opine about a variety of topics, including Microsoft and Bill Gates. “It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft,” Jobs said. “They’re clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 18 upgraded its Google Docs presentations capabilities, adding real-time collaboration capabilities and more than 50 other new features to better compete with Microsoft Office Web Apps and other tools. Docs presentations won’t be mistaken for Google Wave, the failed collaboration platform that leveraged XMPP to run in real time. However, the online […]

Cloud computing will be a key driver of net new IT spending over the next five years as public cloud service providers and the adopters of private cloud environments invest in the supporting infrastructure, according to a forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). Overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware, software, and […]

Networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is buying privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The acquisition is designed to boost the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape communications platform, which allows service providers to deliver video […]

FOXBORO, Mass. — EMC executives say that the company–not only with its expanding storage portfolio but also its expertise in virtualization, security capabilities and strong management software–is at the forefront of business migration to the cloud-computing model. When EMC on Oct. 18 announced that third-quarter revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2010, […]

When three industry giants–Cisco Systems (networking), EMC (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks knew it was only a matter of time before another Tier 1 IT company or two stepped up to compete. That came […]

Virtualization software market leader VMware turned in another stellar quarterly earnings report Oct. 17, citing profit of $178 million in the third quarter that more than doubled what it banked a year ago. However, its chief financial officer also warned of macroeconomic storm clouds ahead in 2012. The Palo Alto-based company earned 42 cents per […]

For its first fiscal quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported strong sales of traditional software such as Windows and Office. But its online services, which the company is betting will eventually help supplant traditional software as a major revenue driver, remain a relatively small part of the overall revenue scheme.   Overall, Microsoft reported revenue of […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S comes with a digital assistant named Siri, who responds to voice commands and can perform a variety of tasks ranging from scheduling appointments to sending texts. According to one security analyst, however, Siri also comes with a significant–but easy to fix–security loophole. “I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here […]