Recent Articles
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1. The iPad 2
1. The iPad 2 Apple’s iPad 2 was supposed to be a major step up for the company. Instead, the tablet was a nominal upgrade over a product that many people already liked. Of course, iPad 2 sales were still strong this year — this is Apple, after all — but after rumors suggested a…
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Cloud Computing: Obstacles to Adoption
With the explosion of information regarding cloud computing, a lot of people think that everybody knows more than they want to about the technology. Yet according to many IT solution providers who are working with customers to help them transition to the cloud, the biggest issue holding them back is a lack of understanding about…
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Oracle, Salesforce Lead the CRM App Pack in 2011: IDC
The global CRM applications market recorded a robust performance in the first half of this year, with revenue totaling $9.2 billion, with semiannual year-on-year growth of 13.3 percent, a third stronger than what it was a year ago, according to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual CRM Applications Tracker. Oracle remained the top CRM vendor worldwide, growing above…
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Apple’s iPad 3: What to Expect
What features could end up in Apple s iPad 3? That Apple intends to introduce a successor to its bestselling tablet is a dead certainty. The bigger questions are when the device will hit the market, and what new hardware and software the company will pack into its slim frame. If Apple follows the same…
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Virtualization Management Brings the Ultimate in Efficiency
A funny thing happened on the way to virtualization: Many IT managers discovered that instead of bringing simplicity to their busy data centers, the technology actually made things more complicated. Sure, physical server counts were reduced, energy costs lowered and hardware footprints shrank all thanks to virtualization. However, complexity and confusion grew, and managing virtual…
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Intuit Offers GoPayment Card, Facebook Store for SMBs
As part of its GoPayment mobile payment offering, Intuit announced the launch of the GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card. The card expands Intuit’s strategy beyond processing credit cards on a mobile device to offering the convenience of a Visa prepaid account linked to GoPayment. The company also recently launched SimpleStore for Facebook, allowing any current SimpleStore…
