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Okta Unveils Identity and Access Management Service
On-demand identity and access management service provider Okta announced the debut of a service designed to help businesses accelerate the adoption of their cloud and Web-based applications. Built on an extensible on-demand, multitenant cloud services platform, the service provides end users with single sign-on for all of their Web apps. The company’s application network includes…
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Quantum Unveils DXi 2.0 Inline Deduplication Platform
Data backup, recovery and archive specialist Quantum announced the release of DXi 2.0, the company’s next-generation software platform for its DXi-Series disk backup and deduplication solutions. Offered at the same price as the DXi products with version 1 software, it creates a new inline data flow that is optimized for Quantum’s latest generation of purpose-built…
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Mobile App Store Revenue to Triple in 2011, Gartner Says
(Reuters) – Worldwide mobile application store revenue will almost triple to $15.1 billion this year, boosted by a surge in Google’s Android market, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. Apple created the market for mobile online software stores with the iPhone store in mid-2008, scoring an instant hit that drove smartphone sales and reshaped the…
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Microsoft’s Quarter Profit Expected Lower as Smartphones, Tablets Dominate
(Reuters) – A year ago, Microsoft Corp blew away Wall Street’s earnings forecasts with blistering sales of its new Windows 7 operating system and trumpeted optimism about the recovery in tech spending. This week, with its stock trading slightly lower than a year ago, the world’s largest software company is set to report lower profit…
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iPad Sales Help Apple Muscle Out Dell in Market Share for Q4
HELSINKI, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Consumers picking up tablet computers, or pads, during the holiday season boosted the personal computer market 19.2 percent in the fourth quarter, research firm Canalys said on Wednesday. Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) and Acer Inc (TW:2353) continued to lead the global market, while strong sales of the iPad lifted Apple Inc…
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CGI Group’s Quarter Profit Up on New Contracts
Jan 26 (Reuters) – CGI Group Inc’s (TO:GIBa) first quarter profit rose, helped by new contracts and its Stanley Inc acquisition last year. The company also said it plans to buy back up to 23 million, or 10 percent of its common shares, during its next fiscal, as it extended the share buyback program to…