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Facebook Pledges to Fix Privacy Problem
(Reuters) – Facebook users are inadvertently providing access to their names and in some cases even their friend’s names to advertising and Internet tracking companies, through some popular applications, the Wall Street Journal said. According to the Journal’s investigation, the issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles…
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Spiceworks Updates Free IT Management Application
IT management specialist Spiceworks, Inc. announced the availability of the fifth generation of its free social IT management software application, with new features including the ability to monitor and manage applications, devices and cloud services based on the people who use them within the organization; advanced network configuration management capabilities; and a centralized help desk…
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IT Spending, Budgets to Remain Slow Growing, Gartner
(Reuters) – Global enterprise spending on information technology should increase 3.1 percent in 2011, industry tracker Gartner said on Monday, as it predicted "timid" growth over the next five years. Gartner forecast IT spending to rise to $2.5 trillion in 2011 and climb to $2.8 trillion in 2014, a gain of only 12 percent over…
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EMC, Isilon in Acquisition Talks, Report
Oct 18 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), the world’s biggest maker of corporate data storage equipment, is in exclusive talks to buy computer storage company Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) for more than $2 billion, the New York Post reported on Monday. The report quoted an unnamed source as saying the deal would be done this…
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Synnex Offers Reseller App for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS
Looking to access product information, pricing, availability and even place orders from your smartphone while you are visiting customer sites? Synnex has introduced a mobile application for its e-commerce website, ECExpress, for use on Android, iPhone, Blackberry and HP Palm WebOS mobile devices in the United States and Canada. The mobile app lets Synnex resellers…
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Rescued by Process
I’m appreciating process a lot this week. In a badly planned set of leave requests, my Service Manager was married to his (now) lovely bride on the same week that my V.P. of Sales is camping in Yellowstone. I’ll begin this by noting that I want my team to take their vacations, and I encourage…