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Microsoft’s Windows Phone to Go After the Midmarket
Can a lower-cost Windows Phone carve off a significant portion of the smartphone market? After months of positioning its smartphone platform as the counterpoint to high-end competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and some Google Android devices, Microsoft plans on aiming Windows Phone at a less-pricey market segment. “We are dramatically broadening the set of price… Read more
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Zenith Infotech Default Heads to Bombay High Court
Zenith Infotech’s bondholders, QVT Financial, have sued and will take the cloud company to a Bombay court on Wednesday, just a few weeks after Zenith Infotech defaulted on repayment of its bonds. Moneycontrol.com reports the case will be heard in Bombay High Court on Oct. 26 and has been filed against Zenith Infotech, its promoters,… Read more
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Cisco to Buy BNI Video for $99 Million
Networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is buying privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The acquisition is designed to boost the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape communications platform, which allows service providers to deliver video… Read more
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EMC Promises to Continue Push to the Cloud
FOXBORO, Mass. — EMC executives say that the company–not only with its expanding storage portfolio but also its expertise in virtualization, security capabilities and strong management software–is at the forefront of business migration to the cloud-computing model. When EMC on Oct. 18 announced that third-quarter revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2010,… Read more
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Lexmark Takes Print Release Solution to the Cloud
Lexmark International announced that its enterprise Print Release solution can now be hosted in the cloud via a software-as-a-service model, letting IT administrators scale the solution without having to make an investment in new IT infrastructure. The company has also enhanced Print Release’s mobile printing capabilities. Print Release can now be deployed either in a… Read more
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Data Center Hardware Spending to Hit $99 Billion in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide data center hardware spending is projected to reach $98.9 billion in 2011, up 12.7 percent from 2010 spending of $87.8 billion, according to IT research firm Gartner. Data center hardware spending is forecast to total $106.4 billion in 2012 and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015. Gartner identifies data center hardware spending as including servers,… Read more