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Mobile Security: Four Key Opportunities for the Channel
With the number of mobile devices deployed shooting up, recent news about Android security vulnerabilities and the exposure of more than 100,000 iPad users’ personal data raising user awareness about mobile security, opportunities for channel partners to sell mobile protection into customer environments have certainly ripened. That’s if these partners and their vendors can target…
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SAAS Momentum Outpacing Packaged Software, Study Says
While cloud technologies are often greeted with caution by traditional value-added resellers who wonder how the business model could ever work for them, a new report from IDC finds that software as a service (SAAS) continues to gain momentum against packaged software sales. The IDC report says that SAAS revenue will grow five times faster…
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iPad Boosts Apple, Netbook Sales Idle, Study Finds
Worldwide PC market data from Canalys revealed Apple’s release of the iPad tablet helped it jump into the top five PC vendors, capturing approximately 6 percent of the portable PC segment in Q2 2010, with over 3 million units shipped during the device’s first few months on the market. Conversely, the report found growth in…
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Google Apps FISMA Certified Amid IT Security Concerns
Google revealed today that it will answer security critics and build out its government customer base with a new version of Google Apps, specifically for the government sector, complete with FISMA certification. Google said in its Official Enterprise Blog that Google Apps for Government is the industry’s "first suite of cloud computing applications to receive…
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World’s Cheapest Laptop Developed at $35 Cost
NEW DELHI July 23 (Reuters Life!) – India has come up with the world’s cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production.…
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Microsoft Revenues Suggest Cloud Still Just a Dream
Microsoft’s quarterly revenues of $16.04 billion exceeded many industry analysts’ expectations, and suggested that the economy –at least the portion of it that purchases software—is indeed slowly reviving from the deepest global recession in a generation. However, a deeper analysis of those results also reveals a peculiar dichotomy: despite Microsoft’s “all in” approach to cloud…