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SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) may face shortages of key components for its newly-released iPad 2 as a result of the earthquake in Japan, according to a report released on Thursday. Several key components in the new version of Apple’s popular iPad tablet PC come from Japan, including the battery and […]

Network operator Verizon and SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG, are jointly delivering the SAP CRM rapid-deployment platform to enterprise workers through Verizon’s cloud offering, Computing as a Service. Workers will now be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices, the companies announced. As part of the SAP CRM […]

It’s no secret that Microsoft faces a host of challenges as it attempts to shift its focus from the traditional and desktop-bound to a more cloud-centric, mobile-focused model. For companies with tens of thousands of employees and decades’ worth of institutional memory, recoding the corporate DNA to meet new challenges is an undertaking with a […]

Research In Motion is planning to partner with Microsoft on the latter’s cloud offerings, which will be integrated into BlackBerry devices as well as the upcoming Playbook tablet. “Cloud has always been core to our business,” Alec Taylor, vice president of Software, Services and Enterprise Marketing for RIM, told analysts and reporters listening to a […]

Dell March 17 introduced a refresh of its Vostro 3000 series laptops for small and midsize businesses, a new Vostro all-in-one desktop, and a new line of Inspiron R notebooks, specifically for consumers. The Vostro laptops come in 13-, 14-, 15- and 17-inch models and, like the other PCs Dell introduced that day, feature Intel’s […]

When the buzzer goes off, the game is over, time has run out, and there’s a winner and a loser. Which side are you going to be on? This week more than most, the concept of time becomes headline news.  As March Madness falls upon us, time is usually explained to us in a disparaging […]

EMC’s RSA Security acknowledged it had been hit by an "extremely sophisticated" attack and that information related to the SecurID two-factor authentication products have been stolen. Partners: We Need More Answers on RSA Breach Intruders succeeded in breaching RSA networks "recently" as part of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack, Art Coviello, executive chairman of RSA […]

Samsung has a wide-ranging offensive planned for spring, with a variety of new devices and software seemingly designed not only to challenge Apple in the consumer market, but also tech titans such as Google and Lenovo. At a March 16 event in New York City, Samsung executives suggested that these devices—including but not limited to […]

Many IT industry people believe that the incorporation of cloud computing services and systems is the single most impactful trend in data center construction and management, and all the indicators certainly point in that direction. In sanctioning this, market researcher Gartner is venturing further, declaring that there are no fewer than four important forces now […]

Motorola Mobility will begin selling its WiFi-only Motorola Xoom tablet March 27 for $599 at Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s Club, Staples and Walmart, and online at Amazon.com. The 32GB Xoom WiFi, which is price-equivalent to Apple’s new WiFi-only, 32GB iPad 2, will also be available to commercial IT channels and regional retailers through a […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—IDC’s frontman, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens, sees a significant fork in the IT road in 2011 similar to one that happened 25 years ago. Back in 1986, PCs and desktop computers were 5 years old and starting to work their way into daily use in dedicated enterprise networks and […]

Amazon Web Services, which launched its first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, revealed March 15 that it has redesigned the access to its Virtual Private Cloud service. Users now can set up their own virtual networks within the Amazon cloud that they can control just as they control their own physical […]