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Steve Jobs’ Biography Reveals Apple’s Design Process
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs offers a glimpse into the top-secret design lab for Apple products, in the process revealing a good deal about the working relationship between the former Apple CEO, who died earlier this month, and his chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Apple heavily restricts access to that lab, which according to…
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Symantec: Businesses Suffer From Cyber-Security Delusions
The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever increasing cyber security threats even as many fail to take fundamental precautions, according to a survey of U.S. small businesses sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Zogby…
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IBM Launches New Software to Tackle ‘Big Data’
IBM has announced new software to deliver "big data" analytics to users on a variety of devices and platforms. At its Information on Demand (IoD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 24, IBM unveiled new offerings that span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices…
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Tablet, Shmablet! Why iPad, Tablets Are Just a Fad
Mark me down as a skeptic of all the tablet hoopla. Sure iPads are cool, but most other tablets have failed to rouse any real interest in the market, so don’t toss your laptops to the junk heap just yet. The iPad is no iPhone. It’s more like the iPod and, as such, will likely…
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HP Offers Business Services for Mobile Devices
Hewlett-Packard is creating a suite of services aimed at helping enterprises extend their businesses applications to employees and customers who are using mobile devices. The HP Mobile Applications Services, announced Oct. 24, are designed to enable workers and consumers to access applications, data and businesses processes through any device and from any location. HP, like…
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Android Tablet Share Hits 27 Percent Vs. iPad’s 67 Percent
More than 4.5 million tablet computers based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system shipped in the third quarter, comprising 27 percent of the market shipments, according to research released by Strategy Analytics Oct. 21. Android’s tablet share pales in comparison to the 67 percent table share enjoyed by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, which the company said…