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Lenovo’s IT Mettle vs. Google Chromebook
Image via Wikipedia Google’s Chromebook notebook play, announced during the company’s Google I/O conference, may be aimed at businesses, governments, and educational institutions, as well as consumers, but will any of these end-users or end-user organizations be interested in buying what Google wants to sell, or lease, as the case may be? Google’s hardware-as-a-service (HaaS)…
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Seagate Debuts GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage for iPhone, iPad
Storage solutions specialist Seagate announced the release of the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, a battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of a WiFi-enabled mobile device. With 500GB and WiFi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, this latest member of the GoFlex family wirelessly connects mobile devices directly to…
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It’s Too Simple
It’s Too Simple Google’s Chrome OS is a first-generation version of the operating system. That means it’s still going to suffer from some bugs here and there, and it’s still quite simple. Over time, Google will be able to make Chrome OS more usable for enterprise customers who need high-level functionality, but until then, the…
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HP Introduces Network Management Center 9.1 for MSPs, Cloud Management
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of HP Network Management Center version 9.1, adding additional features for managed service providers, cloud computing and unified communications management. For MSPs, HP has introduced multi-tenancy capability and security groups that allow users to separate data and views into secure partitions. MSPs can manage multiple clients, departments or sites within the…
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It Has Android
It Has Android There is perhaps a simple, easy reason Google decided against bringing Chrome OS to tablets: it already has Android. On mobile devices, the company’s Android operating system is performing extremely well. It would only make sense for Google to not want to mess with that success with a competitor of its own.…
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This Week’s Cloud Outage: Microsoft BPOS
Image by liber via Flickr Does anything whip end-users into a bigger frenzy than an email outage? That’s just what Microsoft BPOS customers and their ever-suffering IT administrators were dealing with this week as Microsoft experienced downtime for its hosted Microsoft Exchange email service, as reported here and here and here. The stories include tales…
