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RIM Remains Committed to PlayBook in Wake of HP TouchPad Fire Sale
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) last week waved the white flag for tablets and smartphones based on its HP webOS operating system. Anyone thinking Research In Motion (NYSE:RIMM) or other OEMs are doing the same against the rising tide of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads, which command over 80 percent of tablet market sales worldwide, would be mistaken. Motorola and…
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Resigns
An east coast earthquake, a hurricane and now Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple’s CEO. In a note addressed to the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community, Jobs wrote: “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I…
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Channel Case Study: The Value of Cold Calls
It was the cold call that turned into a half-a-million dollar business deal. When an inside sales associate at Carousel Industries called Dean College, not only did the solution provider fortuitously reach out at exactly the right time, it managed to put together a compelling deal, kicking off a relationship that has brought in hundreds…
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Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache Service
Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for Web applications running in the AWS cloud. Amazon officials said the new service improves the performance of web applications by enabling customers to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching…
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Microsoft Windows Phone Mango Marketplace Open to Developers
Microsoft has opened the doors for developers to submit Windows Phone Mango apps to the market. In July, the software giant said it would enable developers to submit apps to the Windows Phone Mango marketplace in late August. And it appears the company has made good on its promise. In an Aug. 22 blog post,…