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Verizon Communications Joins Cloud Storage Market
The service will become available in the U.S. and 16 countries beginning in July. It enters the market against a flock of competitors that include Amazon S3, Google’s new Gdrive, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and a number of others. Verizon Cloud Storage will use a pay-as-you-use scheme that scales on demand and can either augment traditional storage…
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Microsoft’s Worldwide Release of Office 2010
In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. While expectations for the software’s success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs. The worldwide launch of Office 2010 follows the software’s release…
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HP, Vidyo Partner on Visual Collaboration Services
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Vidyo Inc., a software-based videoconferencing solution provider, announced an agreement to expand the HP Halo portfolio to include conference room and desktop endpoints that run on enterprise networks. Available through HP and channel partners, the solutions will be interoperable with traditional videoconferencing endpoints and current HP Halo telepresence and video…
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Sprint to Cut Off Internet Access to Laptop Users Who Exceed Data Limits
(Reuters) – Telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp will temporarily deactivate the accounts of laptop broadband users if they consume more than their allotted share of data while roaming, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sprint is changing its data service policies for laptop users with mobile broadband cards or USB modems, Mark Elliott, a company spokesman…
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20 Quick Facts about Netbooks
20 Quick Facts about Netbooks Mini notebook computers or netbooks, first introduced in late 2007, have taken the market by storm: with shipments growing by 71 percent year over year from the in the first quarter of 2010, according to analyst firm Gartner. That compares to a 43 percent growth rate for notebook computers overall…
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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…
