Recent Articles
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1. Android’s Continued Smartphone Rise
1. Android’s Continued Smartphone Rise Apple’s iPhone is an integral component in the company’s success. But Android continues to solidify its market position. Will the smartphone market get bigger, ensuring Apple can continue to post strong sales? Maybe, but the stronger Android becomes, the worse it will be for Apple over the long-term. 2. Android…
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Amazon Kindle Fire Hurting iPad Sales: Analyst
Amazon’ s Kindle Fire will contribute to reduced iPad sales in December, according to a new analyst report. ” With our expectations for a new iPad launch during the March quarter leading to potentially lower inventory levels combined with increased competition from the $200 Kindle Fire,” T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, wrote…
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Microsoft, HP Partner on Cloud Services for Businesses
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will jointly offer private and public cloud solutions for organizations under a newly announced four-year initiative. Those solutions will break down into three separate verticals: Private Cloud, involving a combination of HP Enterprise Cloud Services and Microsoft cloud products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010 delivered…
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Microsoft, GE to Form Joint Health Care IT Company
Microsoft and GE have announced they will form a joint venture in health care IT to build an interoperable platform that enables the management of patient populations and chronic diseases. The new company will inherit several existing health care products and their teams. Microsoft will contribute its experience in developing health IT platforms, while GE will…
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HP Contributes webOS Platform to Open Source
HP ended the months of rumors and speculation today, announcing that it will contribute its webOS software acquired for $1.2 billion last year to the open source community, and that it will continue to develop on the platform. But HP made no mention of whether it will continue to develop hardware for webOS. HP said…
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How to Choose a Vertical Industry or Technology Specialization
By Beth Vanni, Vice President, Amazon Consulting Specializations programs are now mainstream parts of many vendors’ competency-based programs. And, results show a positive impact to solution providers overall. However, selecting the type of specialization to invest in is not as easy as choosing between which vendor to use to print your business cards, or what…
