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  • RIM Promises BlackBerry PlayBook Updates

    Research In Motion reported revenues of $4.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, a 15 percent decline from the $4.9 billion it earned during the previous quarter. The company shipped some 10.6 million BlackBerry smartphones and around 200,000 BlackBerry-branded PlayBook tablets during that period. RIM s aging BlackBerry portfolio continued to drag on…

  • Microsoft Rolls Out Tools, Windows 8 Server, Cloud Services at BUILD

    ANAHEIM, Calif. Microsoft announced a series of moves meant to advance developer opportunities and productivity, including a developer preview of Visual Studio 2011, a preview of Windows Server 8 and the company s Team Foundation Server (TFS) delivered as a service on the Windows Azure cloud. In a Sept. 14 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD…

  • Microsoft Talks Cloud to Financial Analysts

    Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company’s momentum over the past year. Xbox Kinect, Office 365 and other offerings were all cited as drivers of that momentum. However, executives also emphasized the relative newness of the latest generation of products, as if to suggest…

  • VMware’s Workstation Updated for Multiple VMs

    Virtualization market king VMware on Sept. 14 upgraded its Workstation software package to version 8 by adding no fewer than 50 new features. Workstation, designed for x86 and x86 64-bit servers or PCs, enables users to set up multiple virtual machines on a single physical box. User then can deploy one or more of these…

  • Google ITA Launches Flight Search

    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google. Google Flight Search is the first fruit of Google’s integration of ITA Software, the flight data provider it purchased in April after a protracted antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. The service will compete with popular…

  • HP Talks Future of PSG, Names New Channel Chief

    HP has named a new channel chief to replace the recently promoted Stephen DiFranco and is moving to transition HP’s direct SMB sales efforts into a demand generation program for HP channel partners. Mike Parrottino will move into the job of leading U.S. PSG Channel Sales, effective immediately,  Stephen DiFranco, senior vice president and general…

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