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Mobile Workers to Number 1.3 Billion by 2015: IDC
By 2015, the world’s mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2 percent of the total workforce, according to an updated forecast from IT analytics firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The report projects the most significant gains will again be in the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific thanks to continued, strong economic growth. The Americas…
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Microsoft Partners With BT to Push Lync Voice Services Into Cloud
In what may be a sign of the times, Microsoft is expanding the footprint of its Lync platform further into the cloud. The company has launched a pilot program with telecom giant British Telecom to begin offering an enterprise-class platform to host dedicated Microsoft Lync Voice service. The pilot augments BT’s existing global Managed Lync…
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Velocity Micro to Launch Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets at CES
Velocity Micro will join MIPS Technologies in showing off low-cost tablets running Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Chip maker MIPS Technologies teamed with Ingenic to launch the $100 Novo7 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet in China. That 7-inch slate is powered by a…
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Western Digital Debuts My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage Platform
Digital storage solutions specialist Western Digital (WD) introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. My Book Live Duo is available in 4TB and 6TB capacities and is…
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Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few
I sold my MSP business. At every sale, there are always a large number of success claims about how it was built to sell, and how everyone is delighted about the sale of their company. Many go on to tell war stories about how “they did it”, assuming that the advice is useful and everyone…