Tag: Google

  • Dell: Only Real iPad Competition Comes From Android, Windows 8

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and Google’s Android OS will emerge as the only real alternatives to Apple’s dominant iPad in the tablet market, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 16 in a conference call to announce the company’s second-quarter financial numbers, Dell said that Google’s Android platform will benefit… Read more

  • Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion in Cash

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    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) stunned the high-tech world Aug. 15 with an offer to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion. The company’s largest purchase ever should give the search engine much-needed patent protection. Google agreed to pay $40.00 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over Motorola Mobility’s Aug. 12 closing price. Ending regulatory… Read more

  • Google, Motorola Deal Could Change Smartphone Landscape

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    Google’ s (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is a game-changer on several fronts, particularly in the patent arena. Android sits at the center of several ongoing patent disputes, some of which have escalated into particularly vicious courtroom battles. Earlier this year, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) led a consortium of companies in… Read more

  • CompTIA Breakaway: Cloud Vendors on Parade

    Jessica Davis

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    Managed services and cloud computing took center stage at the CompTIA Breakaway conference in Washington DC this week, as standing-room-only cloud seminars attracted hundreds of IT solution providers and vendors took advantage of the opportunity to talk about their cloud wares. Here’s a look at some of the vendors and products at the event.  Intronis.com… Read more

  • Cloud Sherpas Buys WaveAdept, a Google Apps Cloud Services Provider

    Nathan Eddy

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    Google Apps cloud service provider Cloud Sherpas announced it acquired WaveAdept, a Google Apps reseller and cloud service provider in New Zealand, as part of a strategy to expand in the Asia-Pacific region.  WaveAdept, based in Wellington, N.Z., is the third company acquired by Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps partner, in the past six weeks.… Read more

  • GSA Goes Google With Help from Unisys, Tempus Nova

    Chris Talbot

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    The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has become the first federal government agency to shifts its more than 17,000 employees and contractors to the cloud by adopting the Google Apps for Government platform. The federal agency migrated its employees and contractors to Google Apps in a six-month period, and it just announced the completion of… Read more