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  • Cisco, EMC, SAP Back Cloud Portability Standards Initiative

    The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a non-profit international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information space, launched an open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will…

  • Microsoft Promises Skype Integration for Windows Phone

    Despite being owned by Microsoft, the company’s mobile Windows Phone operating system still doesn’t have an application by voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype, but that will change soon, Microsoft’s Skype division Vice President Rick Osterloh promised in an interview during last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some analysts are predicting the…

  • IBM Talks Social Business at Lotusphere

    ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM kicked off Lotusphere 2012 today, with a general session that demonstrated the many uses, benefits and faces of social business. This year’s Lotusphere and Connect conferences underscored the importance of socially-enabling business processes–from the three-song set by Ok Go–a band whose success was partially fueled by the popularity of its award-winning…

  • Wikipedia Will Shutter in Protest of SOPA, PIPA

    Wikipedia plans on undergoing a self-imposed blackout Jan. 18, in protest of proposed legislation that it says would harm a free and open Internet. The legislation in question includes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The bills are intended to…

  • Valuable Social Media Lessons, Sponsored by Verizon and Netflix

    We need big companies to step in it once in a while. How else are we to learn important business lessons? Thankfully, Verizon and Netflix have obliged in recent months with spectacular public relations missteps that proved the worth of social networking for consumers. Any company that sells a service or product to a demanding…

  • Novell Launches ZenWorks Application Virtualization Platform

    IT systems software specialist Novell announced the release of ZenWorks Application Virtualization 9, which leverages an approach to application harvesting that is designed to enable enterprise IT staff to tap into a library of resources and find the best stored version to build the virtual application dynamically. By harvesting work that has already been done,…

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