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  • RIM’s Needs a New PlayBook Strategy

    Should Research In Motion kill its PlayBook tablet? Last quarter, RIM took a substantial charge against its PlayBook inventory, totaling some $485 million before taxes (or $360 million, once those taxes are taken into account). During a Dec. 15 earnings call, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis suggested the company remains committed to the device, which he…

  • Mobile Apps Offer Information, Resources for SMBs

    An electronic application that finds loans, grants and other useful small business resources and its developer, Somesh Kumar of Fremont, Calif., won first prize and $5,000 in a nationwide competition sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The competition and resulting seven apps are meant to put new and useful Web tools at the fingertips…

  • Apple Reported to Buy Flash Storage Firm Anobit

    Apple has reportedly gone through with its plans to purchase Israeli flash storage company Anobit for some $500 million. That news comes from Reuters, itself quoting the Israeli business daily Calcalist. Apparently, Apple will also build a research and development complex in Israel. Rumors of Apple’s Anobit buy had circulated since earlier in December, when…

  • Reliability, Cost Influence Storage System Selection: Nexsan

    Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, announced a downloadable paper titled, “6 Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives,” a free educational resource that provides guidance on selecting the most appropriate hard disk drive or solid state disk drive technology when configuring a storage system for business applications. There are a number of…

  • Oracle Sees Satisfying Software, Services Sales in Q2 2012

    Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) may not have reached all the sales goals at which it aimed, but the fiscal Q2 2012 earnings report it delivered Dec. 20 still had to be satisfactory for itself and shareholders. Generally, the company did well in its software and services businesses but lost some ground on the hardware side. The…

  • Mobile Devices to Boost Online Ad Spending in 2012: Berg

    The total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from $3.4 billion in 2010, at a compound annual growth rate of 37 percent, to $22.6 billion in 2016, according to a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight. This will then correspond to 15.2 percent of the total online advertising…

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