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Google March 15 moved to improve its Google Apps upgrade deliveries, adding a rapid release and scheduled release tracks to help IT administrators prepare for application upgrades. Google hosts Google Apps, including Google Docs, Gmail and other collaboration applications on its cloud computing infrastructure. Google’s practice has been to automatically provision upgrades for those apps […]

Communications giant Cisco announced it has completed its acquisition of privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet was acquired to help strengthen the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver video experiences to a variety of devices […]

VMware View Client for iPad opens broad vistas for enterprise users who want to use an iPad but require access to a Windows desktop. The no-cost View Client for iPad extends VMware’s virtual desktop environment to the popular Apple iPad granting users the ability to run Windows apps without the need to carry a PC. […]

New details have emerged about the tablet plans of Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Research In Motion, if a price sheet, said to be a leaked road map from a big-box retailer, is correct. Pre Central posted the road map March 14, and it shows the 10-inch Motorola Xoom going on sale March 17 for $649, followed […]

Intel officials are looking to use a combination of low-power “Sandy Bridge” Xeon chips and Atom processors to build out their portfolio of products for ultradense micro servers. Executives with the giant chip maker first talked about micro servers in 2009, describing high-performance, energy-efficient systems that share resources and target such environments as large data […]

The Apple iPad 2 may be a leaner, meaner and faster-processing machine than its predecessor, but these marked improvements come at only a modestly higher price to Apple, according to a March 13 report from research firm IHS iSuppli. The 32GB, GSM/HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) version of the iPad 2—the model available from AT&T—has a […]

Not to be left behind on mobile-development advances, Oracle announced the delivery of its Java-based Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client, an extension of the Oracle Application Development Framework. A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ADF Mobile Client enables developers to extend their existing skills into mobile devices. It simplifies application creation and deployment […]

Revolution Analytics, the provider of R software, services and support, and IBM Netezza announced a partnership to integrate Revolution R Enterprise and the IBM Netezza TwinFin Data Warehouse Appliance. At the Predictive Analytics World conference in San Francisco on March 14, Revolution Analytics and IBM said their partnership enables customers seeking to run predictive analytics […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud […]

SaaS-based collaboration and messaging technology provider HyperOffice has announced the addition of a new hosted email archiving service to its existing portfolio of cloud-based offerings. The new service offered by HyperOffice recognizes that email is often the wrapper around critical corporate information such as contracts, invoices, business documents and other important information. HyperOffice executives said […]

NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) – Lawson Software said late on Friday it had received an unsolicited bid from privately held software company Infor and Golden Gate Capital to acquire all its outstanding common stock at $11.25 per share in cash. Shares of the software maker closed on Friday at $11.55, after having risen 18 […]

(Reuters) – Analysts expect Apple Inc to have sold close to a million iPad 2 tablet computers on its debut weekend — significantly more than the first iPad, which went on sale last April. "We would not be surprised to see Apple sell closer to 1 million iPad2s in the opening weekend," said Wedbush Securities […]