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Novell Announces Mono Development Tool for Android
Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android, the first solution for developing Microsoft .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set. With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to…
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Banks Don’t Protect SMBs From Fraud: Report
Small and midsized businesses are more susceptible to online-banking fraud, compared with larger businesses and enterprises, according to a new security report from the Ponemon Institute. What’s worse is that many financial institutions are not doing enough to protect smaller businesses from cyber-crooks. Over half, or 56 percent, of the surveyed companies reported experiencing some…
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CA Technologies Buys Govt IT Consultant Base Tech
Software giant CA Technologies has acquired government IT consulting firm Base Technologies in a move to add consulting expertise to its virtualization, mainframe and cloud-computing offerings for government agencies and health care providers. A major player in virtualization and IT management, CA announced the agreement on April 6. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.…
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HP Revamps Information Management Offerings
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard updated both its products/service package and its marketing message April 5 in the category of information-management software and services. Actually, there is more news at this time in the way the company is presenting its software and services to potential buyers than the launch of any new products themselves. But…
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IBM Debuts Enterprise Smart Cloud Offerings
IBM has jumped head first into the public cloud space with its new IBM SmartCloud enterprise-class, secure cloud offering that has been specifically created to meet the demands of businesses. IBM introduced its new SmartCloud offering at an April 7 event in San Francisco. In an interview with eWEEK, Ric Telford, IBM’s vice president of…
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25 Facts About Research in Motion
25 Facts About Research in Motion RIM was first founded in 1985. No Title It’s initial focus wasn’t on telecom. One of its first gigs was building networked LED display terminals for General Motors’ assembly line. No Title In the early 1990s, RIM founder Mike Lazaridis won an Oscar and an Emmy for developing a…
