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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…
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Android Smartphones, iPad Activations Grow: Report
Good Technology, a provider of secure and managed enterprise mobility for the Apple iPhone and iPad, Google Android, and other smartphone platforms, released its quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of IT and mobile enterprise technology. The report found in the third quarter of 2011, Apple devices held onto their lead in the enterprise…
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Zenith Infotech Default Heads to Bombay High Court
Zenith Infotech’s bondholders, QVT Financial, have sued and will take the cloud company to a Bombay court on Wednesday, just a few weeks after Zenith Infotech defaulted on repayment of its bonds. Moneycontrol.com reports the case will be heard in Bombay High Court on Oct. 26 and has been filed against Zenith Infotech, its promoters,…
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Google Docs Presentations Offers Real-Time Collaboration
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 18 upgraded its Google Docs presentations capabilities, adding real-time collaboration capabilities and more than 50 other new features to better compete with Microsoft Office Web Apps and other tools. Docs presentations won’t be mistaken for Google Wave, the failed collaboration platform that leveraged XMPP to run in real time. However, the online…
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Storage Market Gets a Boost From Cloud Computing
Cloud computing will be a key driver of net new IT spending over the next five years as public cloud service providers and the adopters of private cloud environments invest in the supporting infrastructure, according to a forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). Overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware, software, and…
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Cisco to Buy BNI Video for $99 Million
Networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is buying privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The acquisition is designed to boost the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape communications platform, which allows service providers to deliver video…