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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
When it comes to selecting the computers to power their data centers, IT professionals have a plethora of options. By choosing workload optimized systems, organizations can reap the most from their IT budgets and see 80 percent or even 100 percent utilization rates, according to a report by Clabby Analytics. The trick is to buy the hardware best-suited to your workloads. This video will look at the cost and performance benefits that workload-optimized systems can deliver to organizations.
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx is a power-packed follow-up to the company's Droid Razr handset. The handset, available now from Verizon Wireless, is great for power data users. - Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx, on sale from Verizon
Wireless for $299.99 with a two-year contract, is the first smartphone that
qualifies as a power mobile data user's best friend because it has the best battery
life on an Android smartphone I've ever tested.
The Android
2.3 Gingerbread phone off...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
RIM offered up its independent committee report on splitting the roles of chair and CEO, even as it wrestled with the fallout from its "Bold Team" mascots. - Research In Motion decided to split the roles of chair and CEO after an independent committee found that doing so would constitute an “appropriate solution for RIM shareholders.”
The committees report, which RIM posted on its Website, suggested that the company follow the policy of other Canadian c...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3 also includes a collection of new tools for editing multicam projects. - Computer maker Apple released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, the latest update to its professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos, advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app and enhance...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
IBM announced plans to acquire Worklight, a maker of development and management software for tablets and smartphones, in a move aimed at bolstering Big Blues enterprise mobile strategy. - IBM announced its plans to acquire Worklight, a move the company says will boost the mobile capabilities of its enterprise clients.
IBM signed a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight a privately held Israel-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms of the d...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Malicious fraudsters are breaking into email accounts to transfer funds from online brokerage accounts and other forms of stock fraud. - An independent regulator for securities
firms has warned investors of a growing number of financially motivated attacks
targeting email accounts.
Malicious attackers are compromising
user email accounts and sending trading instructions, the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority said in an inv...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Google Jan. 31 responded to senators' concerns that the company was infringing on user privacy with its forthcoming privacy policy changes. -
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Jan. 31 assured Congress that it is changing its privacy policies to make them easier to manage and improve the company's existing Web services for its users.
quot;By folding more than 60 product-specific privacy policies into our main Google one, we're explaining our priv...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
With its Galaxy Note 5-inch tablet-slash-smartphone, Samsung is looking to score where Dell struck out. AT&T will sell the Android device for $300 starting Feb. 19. - AT amp;T will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy Note Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract. Impatient folks, or anyone wanting assurance they'll get their hands on one and be able to choose between Carbon Blue and Ceramic White wil be able to preorder Feb. 5, with delivery by Feb. 17.
Introduc...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Apple was the world's best-selling PC maker during the fourth quarter, says Canalys. The firm believes tablet sales should be included, leaving HP little chance for a comeback. - Apple is the world's No. 1
PC maker, thanks in large part to the skyrocketing success of the iPad, according
to research firm Canalys.
Canalys has led the push to
include tablet sales in PC totals. With tablets included, 120 million PCs
shipped during the fourth quarter of 2011, up 16 percent f...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Salesforce has launched Desk.com, a cloud-based customer help-desk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds. - Salesforce.com has launched Desk.com, a customer help-desk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds alongside more traditional corporate channels such as email.
As with all Salesforce services, this newest one is cloud-based; subscriptions start at $49 per seat per month. The target au...
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