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  • LabTech RMM Update Includes Better Dashboards

    Remote monitoring and management provider LabTech Software has released its latest version, LabTech 2011.2, designed for faster speed, enhanced management functions, newly developed reports, and improved connectivity to end-users, the company said.  The new version, available to LabTech partners immediately, offers the following new features, the company said: Direct Tunneling  MSPs can create a IP…

  • N-able Gets Private Equity Growth Investment

    Remote monitoring and management software vendor N-able Technologies has received a private equity investment earmarked for strategic growth, the company has announced. Accel-KKR made the investment of an undisclosed but double-digit million dollar sum. N-able said the investment will be used to fund the growth and expansion its RMM platform, to fuel international growth, and…

  • Steve Jobs Taught Us to Keep Searching for the Insanely Great Idea

    I don’t exactly remember the first time I met Steve Jobs, but it was sometime in the very early ’80s, around the time that I first started to write for Byte, the great magazine of the early personal computer age, which is nothing like its pallid successor. In those days, Byte was the Bible of…

  • Android Holds 43.7% of U.S. Smartphone Market

    Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system commanded 43.7 percent of U.S. market share through August, gaining almost 2 percentage points from comScore’s last count of 41.8 percent in July, according to the researcher. Android sales could get a boost in the U.S. from sales of the new Samsung Galaxy S II Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones on…

  • Steve Jobs Changed How We Use Mobile Technology

    It’s hard to overestimate the effect that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Oct. 5, had on the technology industry as a whole. His company’s innovations in tablets and smartphones kicked off the current rush toward mobility that will almost certainly define the space for years to come. Apple’s Website now opens…

  • Oracle Launches Own Social Network for Cloud Services

    SAN FRANCISCO Oracle jumped onto the increasingly crowded social-networking gravy train Oct. 5 when its co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison introduced the enterprise-oriented Oracle Social Network as a key part of its evolving cloud strategy. Ellison also took the wraps off his company’s newest cloud-oriented middleware products and strategy, called Oracle Public Cloud, in an…

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