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Microsoft’s Ballmer Bashes Android, Google Apps, iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer pulled no punches in his appearance here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 18. He livened up a relatively controversy-free show by poking fun at Google’s (NASDQ:GOOG) Apps cloud collaboration software, the Android mobile operating system and even Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. Ballmer last spoke here at the Web 2.0…
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IBM’s 3Q Profit Rises 7 Percent as BI, Cloud Spending Grows
IBM saw its third-quarter revenue rise 8 percent to $26.2 billion, largely based on the company’s performance in growth markets, software and services. Moreover, IBM reported that net income in this interval grew 7 percent to $3.8 billion from $3.6 billion. "In the third quarter, we drove revenue growth, margin expansion and increased earnings as…
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10 Things You Need to Know About iCloud
10 Things You Need to Know About iCloud It’s FreeThe nicest thing about iCloud is that the first 5GB of storage is free to each user. The cloud is an important, and possibly scary, new frontier for consumers and charging them to access a cloud-based platform might not work. Offering it for free is a…
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IBM Announces New SmartCloud Services, Java PaaS
IBM announced a host of new cloud offerings as part of its IBM SmartCloud initiative, including a new Java platform as a service. Big Blue announced new cloud services and software to provide choice, security and portability for enterprises as they shift workloads to the cloud and use it as a platform for business. IBM…
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SaaS Growing More Popular With SMBs: Report
As more workers become mobile-enabled, the mobile software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is evolving, with more small to medium-size business employees using smartphones with data plans–and other wireless devices–to further improve productivity and worker mobility, according to Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies’ latest report, "Why Mobile SMBs Are Opening Doors to Software-as-a-Service to Increase Productivity and Efficiency."…
