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Apple’s Profits Top $7 Billion, iPad, iPhone Sales Soar
Apple reported significant growth in iPad and iPhone sales for the fiscal 2011 third quarter, on its way to quarterly revenues of $28.57 billion and net profit of $7.31 billion. In all, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones during the quarter, a year-over-year increase of 142 percent. It also sold 9.25 million iPads, good for a…
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VMWare Q2 Profit Nearly Triple Last Year’s Second Quarter
Enterprise virtualization software provider VMware (NYSE:VMW) posted an impressive quarterly earnings report July 19, nearly tripling its profits over the same quarter a year ago. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s net income for the second quarter of 2011 was $220 million, compared with $75 million in 2010. VMware’s revenue in its fiscal Q2 climbed to…
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LifeSize Takes HD Video Conferencing to the Cloud
Logitech subsidiary, LifeSize is expanding its business to the cloud. The provider of on-premise videoconferencing solutions is launching videoconferencing cloud services with, LifeSize Connections. The cloud-based HD videoconferencing service is aimed at businesses that haven’t yet taken the plunge into telepresence and desktop videoconferencing, in part because of the capital expenditures needed on pricey hardware.…
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Google Apps Cloud Outage Lessons Learned
Google has confirmed that the Google App Engine experienced a Java App Engine outage on the evening of July 14, 2011, causing chaos amongst various Java-based applications on Google App Engine for about 4 and a half hours. The outage began at 7 pm PT, at which point applications affected by the downtime experienced high…
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Trend Micro Supports Microsoft SBS 2011 Essentials for SMBs
Internet content security specialist Trend Micro announced the release of a hosted endpoint security solution to support Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Essentials dashboard add-in functionality with Worry-Free Business Security Services, a hosted security service for protecting PCs, servers and other Windows-based devices. The platform leverages the cloud to provide central management for the security…