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Amazon Kindle Fire Hurting iPad Sales: Analyst
Amazon’ s Kindle Fire will contribute to reduced iPad sales in December, according to a new analyst report. ” With our expectations for a new iPad launch during the March quarter leading to potentially lower inventory levels combined with increased competition from the $200 Kindle Fire,” T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, wrote…
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Smartphone, Tablet Security: 10 Lessons to Learn
It wasn’t long ago that Symbian was the only mobile software dealing with an inordinate number of security problems, due to its popularity. But now that Android and iOS have started to dominate the marketplace, the number of mobile threats impacting consumers and enterprise users around the globe has skyrocketed. What’s worse, the threats mobile…
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Microsoft, HP Partner on Cloud Services for Businesses
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will jointly offer private and public cloud solutions for organizations under a newly announced four-year initiative. Those solutions will break down into three separate verticals: Private Cloud, involving a combination of HP Enterprise Cloud Services and Microsoft cloud products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010 delivered…
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Microsoft, GE to Form Joint Health Care IT Company
Microsoft and GE have announced they will form a joint venture in health care IT to build an interoperable platform that enables the management of patient populations and chronic diseases. The new company will inherit several existing health care products and their teams. Microsoft will contribute its experience in developing health IT platforms, while GE will…
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EMC Offers Big Data, Cloud Architect Training
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has announced the start of EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help businesses address skills transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science skills gap. Building on the company’s Cloud Architect training and certification program—the an "open" training and certification for cloud computing that focuses on the principles, best practices…
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HP Contributes webOS Platform to Open Source
HP ended the months of rumors and speculation today, announcing that it will contribute its webOS software acquired for $1.2 billion last year to the open source community, and that it will continue to develop on the platform. But HP made no mention of whether it will continue to develop hardware for webOS. HP said…