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  • Microsoft, MasterCard Partner on Office 365 Program

    Payments and technology company MasterCard Worldwide and technology giant Microsoft extended their pledge to increase technology and payment services to small businesses through a new strategic initiative that sees MasterCard become a member of the partner program for Office 365, a cloud productivity service that gives small businesses access to email, documents, contacts and calendars…

  • Specializations: Getting to Value, Quality

    Having base-level product skills isn’t cutting it any longer. Not for vendors. Not for end-users. So what do you need to go beyond these base-level technical skills to differentiate yourself and continue to grow in today’s market? The prescription: specialize. As the IT market continues to mature, access to highly focused technology “specialists” is becoming…

  • 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…

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