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  • Specializations: Getting to Value, Quality

    Having base-level product skills isn’t cutting it any longer. Not for vendors. Not for end-users. So what do you need to go beyond these base-level technical skills to differentiate yourself and continue to grow in today’s market? The prescription: specialize. As the IT market continues to mature, access to highly focused technology “specialists” is becoming…

  • Apple Reported to Buy Flash Storage Firm Anobit

    Apple has reportedly gone through with its plans to purchase Israeli flash storage company Anobit for some $500 million. That news comes from Reuters, itself quoting the Israeli business daily Calcalist. Apparently, Apple will also build a research and development complex in Israel. Rumors of Apple’s Anobit buy had circulated since earlier in December, when…

  • Oracle Sees Satisfying Software, Services Sales in Q2 2012

    Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) may not have reached all the sales goals at which it aimed, but the fiscal Q2 2012 earnings report it delivered Dec. 20 still had to be satisfactory for itself and shareholders. Generally, the company did well in its software and services businesses but lost some ground on the hardware side. The…

  • Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet Boost Android Tablet Share to 40%

    Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s (NASDAQ:BNBN) Nook Tablet will power Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform to 40.3 percent media tablet market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s up from up from 32.4 percent in Q3, according to IDC, which estimated the media tablet market grew 24 percent on a sequential basis…

  • Microsoft Details Windows 8 Picture Password Feature

    At September’s BUILD conference, Microsoft took an auditorium of developers on a deep dive into the upcoming Windows 8. Among the features revealed in passing was a rather unique way of safeguarding the operating system from unauthorized users: a Picture Password that required touching parts of an image in order to move past the initial…

  • 1. Android Has That Market Wrapped Up

    1. Android Has That Market Wrapped Up Why would HP want to go up against Google’s Android platform? That operating system is open source and available to any handset maker. To add another company to the mix against the dominant force in the industry makes, well, absolutely no sense. 2. Consumers Are Just Starting to…

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