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Where’s Microsoft’s Plan to Win in the Consumerization of IT Age?
Image via Wikipedia Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the…
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Google Quarter Sales Top $9B
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per…
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Pentagon Admits Major Data Breach
A foreign government was behind a March cyber-attack against military computers that led to 24,000 files being stolen from a defense contractor, the Department of Defense said. The intruders were after files related to missile tracking systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and the Joint Strike Fighter. The revelation came in a July 14 speech at the…
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Cloud Computing Dreams Crash into Reality
The promised benefits of cloud computing may be huge from easy collaboration to big cost savings, but relying on the cloud for computing presents its own set of problems. That’s according to partners, customers and experts at a Cisco Live roundtable which shattered a few myths and highlighted some key problems that need to be…
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Half of Notebooks to Get Quad-Core Chips in 2015
Quad-core processors, which are fairly commonplace in desktop PCs, will be in almost half of all notebooks sold within the next four years, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report July 12, IHS iSuppli analysts said that by 2015, 49 percent of all notebooks will ship with quad-core processors. That will be…
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Amazon Android Tablet Coming in October
Amazon plans on releasing an Android-powered tablet in October, according to unnamed sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal. If proven accurate, that would fulfill longstanding rumors about the online retailer s plans to produce such a device. As noted in the WSJ s July 13 report, the tablet will have a nine-inch screen but…
