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Starbucks to Offer Refuge to Those Left Internet-less By ATT, Sprint Data Limits
Even as AT&T and Sprint and maybe others batten down the hatches on unlimited data use by subscribers, Starbucks is opening the doors to free WiFi – a refuge for those left Internet-less by ever stricter carrier data policies. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that free, one-click WiFi would arrive on July 1 to all…
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Gartner Says Bad IT Habits Move to the Cloud
SAAS applications are becoming a more substantial part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to a new research note by Gartner, but a number of companies are taking their “bad practices” from on-premises software into the cloud with them. However, along with that adoption, a number of companies have started engaging in the same “bad…
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Editors Picks Culled by Google News Experiment
Google confirmed the program was one of 50 to 200 experiments the company regular runs on its Websites all over the world. Now Google, which threw its hat into the social media ring with Google Buzz, is toying with human curation on its normally algorithmically-generated Websites. Participating publications are not paying to place their links,…
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Small Business Buying More Computer Hardware Online, Report Finds
A report from IT market research firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. found small businesses (firms with less than 100 employees) in the United States are increasingly relying on online channels to purchase computing hardware and packaged software solutions, a far cry from the days when retail stores and channel partners were overwhelmingly the…
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Trend Micro Acquires Humyo for Online Storage Expansion
Trend Micro Inc, a specialist in Internet content security, announced an agreement to purchase online storage and data synchronization company Humyo, based in Leeds, UK. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Humyo offers automatic data synchronization of files to a secure online storage center across a business’ computers and Internet-connected devices. Their solution…
