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HP Cloud Service Lets You Print from Your Blackberry
SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard, RIM (maker of BlackBerry connected devices), FedEx Office and Hilton Worldwide joined forces April 21 to kick-start a new cloud-based service for mobile printing, long a nagging problem for many traveling business people. As a result of this new initiative, BlackBerry users now can search for the closest connected printer wherever…
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Salesforce.com Acquires Jigsaw Business Contact Software Co.
Salesforce.com announced on April 21 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Jigsaw, a company that uses crowdsourcing to build and maintain an online database of business contacts. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, with Salesforce.com reportedly paying around $142 million. Salesforce.com said it intends…
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Symantec: Fake Security Software Still Top Problem
(Reuters) – Fake security software was the No. 1 cybersecurity woe afflicting computer users in 2009, and Apple users lost some of their immunity to cybercrime as they stored more data online instead of on hard drives, according to the cybersecurity firm Symantec. In a report released on Tuesday, Symantec noted that Brazil had risen…
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Top 5 Mobile Enterprise Influencers
Mobile maturity in the enterprise has finally arrived, and plenty of IT solution providers have recognized that offering a mobile services practice – integrating mobile devices to the IT infrastructure — can bring in an additional stream of services revenue. Channel Insider takes a look at some of the vendors who are shaping the mobile…
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Cloud Storage Customers Get Another Option from Dell, Microsoft
Seagate cloud storage subsidiary i365 came out April 19 with a new version of its EVault storage appliance optimized for Microsoft’s data protection suite, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. The collaborative project is indicative of Microsoft’s determination to move deeper into the cloud storage and services sector and of i365 starting to climb to…
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CTERA Rolls Out Channel-Friendly Cloud Storage Portal
Hybrid cloud-based storage and data protection vendor CTERA Networks is reaching out to service providers, including MSPs and resellers, with a cloud platform that is a turnkey solution for delivering cloud-based storage and data protection services, from creating service plans to remote maintenance of appliances, including the CloudPlug and C200. Available immediately in SaaS and…