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Google Apps L.A. Deployment Delayed by Security Requirements
Google’s complete (NASDAQ:GOOG) implementation of its Google Apps cloud collaboration software for Los Angeles has been delayed due to additional security requirements from the city’s police department. When Google scored the Los Angeles contract to provide its Gmail and other applications for Los Angeles’ 30,000 municipal employees in December 2009, it marked a watershed win.…
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HP Offers Business Services for Mobile Devices
Hewlett-Packard is creating a suite of services aimed at helping enterprises extend their businesses applications to employees and customers who are using mobile devices. The HP Mobile Applications Services, announced Oct. 24, are designed to enable workers and consumers to access applications, data and businesses processes through any device and from any location. HP, like…
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Email Security Lapses Create Risk for Businesses
In a survey of 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, software developer Oasys found that a full 96 percent of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management, with one in five saying their company faces "high risk." The survey results of the company’s September 2011 Business…
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Android Tablet Share Hits 27 Percent Vs. iPad’s 67 Percent
More than 4.5 million tablet computers based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system shipped in the third quarter, comprising 27 percent of the market shipments, according to research released by Strategy Analytics Oct. 21. Android’s tablet share pales in comparison to the 67 percent table share enjoyed by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, which the company said…
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone to Go After the Midmarket
Can a lower-cost Windows Phone carve off a significant portion of the smartphone market? After months of positioning its smartphone platform as the counterpoint to high-end competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and some Google Android devices, Microsoft plans on aiming Windows Phone at a less-pricey market segment. “We are dramatically broadening the set of price…
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Apple’s Steve Jobs ‘Throws Stones’ at Microsoft in New Bio
Near the end of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs, the author steps aside to let his subject opine about a variety of topics, including Microsoft and Bill Gates. “It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft,” Jobs said. “They’re clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they…