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Every PC shipped by Hewlett-Packard, beginning in 2012, will include the ability to run webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired last year in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. However, HP is not abandoning Microsoft just yet. The company still plans to offer Microsoft’s Windows operating system as well as productivity tools such as […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Dell, Opscode and Rackspace on March 9 demonstrated what they described as the first fully automated provisioning of a multinode OpenStack cloud, a new de facto cloud operating system. The demo was staged during an OpenStack gathering at the third annual Cloud Connect conference here at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The demonstration […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector. NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding “big data” storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI […]

In preparation to speak at a sales award banquet this week I was thinking about what kind of message I wanted to leave with the audience. After thinking through a variety of ideas I realized a common concept that all sales leaders must reinforce to their teams. Whether it is a January Kick Off event, […]

Dell is shipping more systems with the new Intel "Sandy Bridge" processors and updated “Cougar Point” chipset hardware "than just about anyone else," according to a company spokesman, and that trend will only continue. In a March 7 blog post, Lionel Menchaca said that over the next six weeks, the company will expand the systems […]

Even though its U.S. smartphone market share is shriveling, Research In Motion still commands the bulk of the enterprise mobile handset market. The problem is that while RIM has spent a decade grooming corporations to get BlackBerrys into the hands of corporate road warriors, Apple iPhone and Google Android handsets are popping up like mushrooms […]

Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Visual Studio SP1) along with some new Feature Packs for .NET developers. In a March 7 blog post, S. “Soma” Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said starting on March 8, Microsoft Developer network (MSDN) subscribers will be able to download […]

As the Google Android platform has become red hot for developers, Black Duck Software has launched an Android Fast Start program, a bundled software and service offering designed to help Android developers get started with Android development. Black Duck officials said Android Fast Start helps to automate and ensure compliance and simplify the operational challenges […]

(Reuters) – Polycom Inc (NASDAQ:PLCM), a U.S. video conferencing company, is looking to consumers and small businesses to help it win market share from rival Cisco’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) Tandberg unit, its CEO said. Polycom has 41 percent of the integrated voice, video and web market, and picked up 2 points of market share from Cisco in […]

Just a week after Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee, it’s back to business as usual as the security company expands its cloud footprint with a new data center to power its security software as a service business. McAfee has activated its fifth cloud data center in the past 12 months, and another center is […]

Avaya DevConnect provides a range of developer-oriented resources, including access to application program interfaces, developer tools and technical support. Its membership has grown by over 16 percent in the last year, and there are more than 1,400 Avaya compliance tested solutions, with 30 to 40 new solutions added per month, according to the company. For […]

Cisco Systems officials, who faced criticism over the cost of the company’s Umi consumer video conferencing offering when it launched in October 2010, are now driving down the cost and expanding the options of the platform as they look to grow the business. Cisco on March 7 announced a price cut of $100 for the […]