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Apple’s Steve Jobs ‘Throws Stones’ at Microsoft in New Bio
Near the end of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs, the author steps aside to let his subject opine about a variety of topics, including Microsoft and Bill Gates. “It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft,” Jobs said. “They’re clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they…
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Android Smartphones, iPad Activations Grow: Report
Good Technology, a provider of secure and managed enterprise mobility for the Apple iPhone and iPad, Google Android, and other smartphone platforms, released its quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of IT and mobile enterprise technology. The report found in the third quarter of 2011, Apple devices held onto their lead in the enterprise…
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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…
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HP, Microsoft Partner on ‘Vblock Killer’ VM System
When three industry giants–Cisco Systems (networking), EMC (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks knew it was only a matter of time before another Tier 1 IT company or two stepped up to compete. That came…
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VMware Turns in Stellar Earnings Report but Anticipates 2012 Slowdown
Virtualization software market leader VMware turned in another stellar quarterly earnings report Oct. 17, citing profit of $178 million in the third quarter that more than doubled what it banked a year ago. However, its chief financial officer also warned of macroeconomic storm clouds ahead in 2012. The Palo Alto-based company earned 42 cents per…
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Microsoft Posts Strong Revenue on Business Software, Windows Sales
For its first fiscal quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported strong sales of traditional software such as Windows and Office. But its online services, which the company is betting will eventually help supplant traditional software as a major revenue driver, remain a relatively small part of the overall revenue scheme. Overall, Microsoft reported revenue of…