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Services Marketplace Gets Cloudy
Image via Wikipedia Everybody is talking this week about HP’s most recent service offering announcement, HP Strategic IT Advisory Services, which the company says is designed to “help CIOs use IT as a key driver of innovation, growth and profitability.” That’s because what this new offering provides sounds a lot like what channel partners provide…
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Two Android ‘Honeycomb’ Tablets Coming From Sony This Fall
Sony, deciding this whole iPad-sparked tablet business might indeed have legs after all, has announced that it plans to release two Android-running tablets this fall. The first, code-named "S1," has a unique wedge shape—a design thought to make it easier to hold—and a 9.4-inch display, and, according to Sony, is "optimized for rich media entertainment."…
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Amazon Web Services Five-Day Outage Sparks Debate About the Cloud
Five full days after its largest outage hit on the morning of April 21, Amazon Web Services said it finally has restored virtually all services to its customers. However, there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven’t yet cooled off completely from the outage that started at 1:41 a.m. PDT April 21…
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CRM Vendor Infor Buys Lawson Software
Infor, which makes enterprise resource planning, customer resource and other management software, announced April 26 that it is acquiring Lawson Software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Infor, whose CEO, Charles Phillips, formerly was president of Oracle, is handling the transaction with the help of a holding company, GGC Software Holdings. Infor produces on-premises…
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Applications Are Important
Applications Are Important Earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that there are now 65,000 iPad apps available to customers. That’s important. The more apps available to tablets, the more likely those devices are to succeed. If HP wants to see its TouchPad succeed, it will need to work with developers to bring as…
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Google Introduces Flexible Pricing Plan Business Apps
Five years after the launch of Google Apps, the company is offering a flexible pricing plan designed to help small and midsize businesses. For customers who sign up online, Google is adding the Flexible Plan, a new $5 per user, per month pricing option which requires no contractual commitment. With this plan, businesses can add…
