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HP Broadens Online Support Services Portfolio
Hewlett-Packard is rolling out the first offering in an aggressive plan to expand the technical support services it can offer on the Web. HP on May 24 announced the HP Support Center platform, an evolution of the company’s Always on Support offering. HP Support Center is designed to give commercial customers online access to the…
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Intel Launches AppUp Hybrid Cloud Solution for Small Businesses
Technology giant Intel has launched the AppUp Small Business Service, an offering running on the company’s Hybrid Cloud platform that is designed to enable server manufacturers, software vendors and service providers to offer small businesses the advantages of cloud computing with applications and data running on their own premises. Intel’s AppUp Small Business Service represents…
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Spammers Start Their Own URL-Shortening Services
Spammers have upped the game of fooling end users by establishing their own fake URL-shortening services, according to a new report from Symantec. The dangers of clicking on unknown shortened URLs are higher now according to Symantec’s May 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. The report found that spammers have set up their own fake URL-shortening services…
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HP, IBM Lead Worldwide Server Market Demand: IDC Report
Revenue in the worldwide server market increased 12.1 percent year over year to $11.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), according to IT research firm IDC. This is the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, as server market demand continued to improve around the world. The company’s report found server unit shipments…
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Google, Microsoft Battle for Business Cloud Customers
For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing an aggressive “all in” cloud strategy. The reason behind it is simple: Although desktop-bound software such as Windows and Office continues to dump tons of cash at the company’s front door, a paradigm shift is underway—one that threatens to leave Microsoft behind as consumers and businesses…
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Businesses Not Keeping Up with New Security Threats: Report
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of corporate network devices analyzed by Dimension Data during 2010 were carrying at least one known security vulnerability. This is almost double the 38 percent recorded in 2009. Dimension Data also found that a single higher-risk vulnerability, PSIRT 109444, which was identified by Cisco in September 2009, was discovered in a…