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  • Oracle’s Ellison to Take the Stand in SAP, Oracle Trial

    (Reuters) – SAP AG will get its chance to take on Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison on Monday when he takes the stand as the U.S. software maker’s star witness in a high-profile software theft trial. SAP, Europe’s largest software firm, has admitted to liability for theft of Oracle software files by a now-defunct subsidiary,…

  • Dell Dumps BlackBerry for Dell Windows Phone 7 Smartphones

    (Reuters) – Dell Inc will shift thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry and over to Dell’s smartphones, the company said on Thursday. The money-saving switch affects the roughly 25,000 Dell employees who carry a company-issued BlackBerry. Dell employs around 100,000 people worldwide. Dell is also launching an effort to convince its…

  • iPhone Infiltrating BlackBerry’s Strongholds: Banks

    (Reuters) – Shares in Research In Motion slipped more than 3 percent on Friday morning as investors fretted the BlackBerry smartphone’s stranglehold on corporate communications was being eroded by rival devices. Bank of America and Citigroup have joined a growing throng of financial institutions eyeing alternatives to the BlackBerry for corporate email. The banks are…

  • Research Shows Cloud Computing Improves Environment

    Researchers are now compiling hard numbers that prove running enterprise applications in the cloud actually does complete a data center triple play by reducing costs, use of electricity and carbon emissions. A new study conducted on behalf of Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy released Nov. 4 shows enterprises running business applications in the…

  • EMC, Isilon Acquisition Talk Cools

    NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Shares of data storage company Isilon Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) fell 7.4 percent on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report said EMC Corp’s (NYSE:EMC) interest in a takeover deal had cooled. The two parties have not been able to agree on price, the Journal reported on its website, citing unnamed…

  • Microsoft Small Business Server Pricing, Launch Date Released

    Microsoft is unveiling the final names and pricing for its new generation of Small Business Servers, which step away from the traditional small business server model to embrace virtualization and cloud features. “Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server code-name Aurora and Windows Small Business Server ‘7,’ both…

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