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Nokia Bets It All on Windows Phone in U.S.
Live in the United States? Have your eyes on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian? Tough luck. According to reports, the Finnish phone maker is planning to end sales of its Symbian-based smartphones and feature phones in North America, effectively doubling down on its bet that Microsoft s Windows Phone will reverse its recent market-share declines.…
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Citrix Buys Virtual Desktop Specialist RingCube
Citrix Systems added a measure of versatility to its virtual desktop product offering Aug. 10 with the acquisition of Mountain View, Calif.-based RingCube, which makes user personalization software for VDI systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RingCube s’ product, vDesk, is a high-performance enterprise workspace virtualization package that makes more efficient the rollout…
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Motorola Considering Windows Phone: Report
Motorola is apparently willing to consider the merits of Microsoft s Windows Phone, despite the well-publicized patent issues between the two companies. I would have to consider whether defocusing from Android to Windows will be the right thing for us to do, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said during a speech at the Oppenheimer Technology &…
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Acer Aspire Ultrabook Prepped for Fall Release
Acer ‘s upcoming ultrabook laptop could hit the shelves as early as October, according to the latest reports. Acer is one of several OEMs that have said they plan to adopt Intel s ultrabook concept for very thin and light notebooks, which could challenge Apple s MacBook Air systems. At the Computex 2011 show in…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 22 Flaws
Microsoft released 13 security bulletins addressing 22 unique vulnerabilities for its August Patch Tuesday update. Of the 13 bulletins, two were rated as "critical," nine as "important" and two as "moderate," Microsoft said Aug. 9 in its Patch Tuesday notification announcement. The patches addressed bugs in both desktop and server versions of Microsoft Windows, Office,…
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Solid State Drive Adoption Sees Explosive Growth
Storage Strategies Now (SSG-Now), a specialist storage analysis and research organization, released the findings of a report and survey on solid state drives and high-speed memory. Titled Solid State Drives and High-Speed Memory: Adoption, Practice and Deployment, the report defines solid state storage, outlines its explosive growth and details how businesses are adopting and deploying…