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RIM Gives Away BlackBerry Apps in Outage Mea Culpa
Research In Motion has decided that a few free apps will ease customer pain over widespread BlackBerry outages last week. RIM claimed in an Oct. 17 statement that the apps would be available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World. The 12 apps listed so far include games such as Sims 3 and N.O.V.A.,…
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Data Center Hardware Spending to Hit $99 Billion in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide data center hardware spending is projected to reach $98.9 billion in 2011, up 12.7 percent from 2010 spending of $87.8 billion, according to IT research firm Gartner. Data center hardware spending is forecast to total $106.4 billion in 2012 and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015. Gartner identifies data center hardware spending as including servers,…
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MSP Acquisitions: Advice for a Red Hot Market
How hot is the managed services mergers and acquisitions market? So hot that remote management and monitoring platform provider N-able offered three different panel discussions on the topic during its annual partner summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. last week "M&A has never been hotter than right now," N-able Vice President of Sales Michael Cullen told Channel…
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IBM Announces New SmartCloud Services, Java PaaS
IBM announced a host of new cloud offerings as part of its IBM SmartCloud initiative, including a new Java platform as a service. Big Blue announced new cloud services and software to provide choice, security and portability for enterprises as they shift workloads to the cloud and use it as a platform for business. IBM…
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Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Skype
Microsoft has formally completed its $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, making the communications company a division within its already-sprawling corporate structure. “This represents a huge leap forward in Skype’s mission to be the communication choice for a billion people every day,” Tony Bates, formerly Skype s CEO and now president of Microsoft’s Skype unit, wrote in…