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RIM PlayBook to Support Two More High-Speed Network Standards
(Reuters) – Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, will release its PlayBook tablet computer on two more high-speed network standards in the second half of 2011, the company said on Monday. The move to offer LTE and HSPA+ versions of its PlayBook guarantees access the most advanced wireless data networks in the world,…
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Cisco Security Certifications Back by Popular Demand
Cisco Systems is bringing back three security specialist certifications it retired in 2008 and 2009 because, as two managers from Cisco told Channel Insider, businesses are having difficulty finding security professionals with specialized skill sets. The three specialist certifications being reintroduced are Cisco VPN Security Specialist (retired in March 2008), Cisco Firewall Security Specialist (retired…
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Nokia, Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
Handset maker Nokia and technology giant Microsoft announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that will use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a global mobile ecosystem, saying they intend to jointly create mobile products and services. Each company will focus on its core competencies and said they plan to work together to…
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Mac App Store Could Be a Boon for Apple Solution Providers
Solution Providers don’t need to worry about competition from Angry Birds: Enterprise Edition. In fact, the must-have app for the iPhone and iPad – and now the Mac via Apple’s recently launched Mac App Store – and its ilk may be good for the channel and for Apple resellers looking to boost their businesses. Apple’s…
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Google, Facebook in Talks to Buy Twitter, Report
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Google Inc and Facebook Inc, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the Internet sensation a value as high as $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. In December, Twitter raised $200 million in financing in a deal that valued it at $3.7 billion.…
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FalconStor Announces Disaster Recovery Automation for Physical, Virtual Environments
Disk-based data protection solution provider FalconStor Software announced the availability of RecoverTrac technology, a disaster recovery (DR) automation tool included as a standard feature of FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP), the platform for FalconStor’s platform of service-oriented data protection. The RecoverTrac feature automates complex failover and failback operations of systems, applications, services and entire datacenters.…