This may feel like Christmas when all you get is ties but Samsung is launching its own smartphone operating system called bada, which it expects to compete with Android and LiMo. It’s not yet clear exactly what it is. Could be still another Linux variant. More likely it’s Samsung’s pro...

"As many as 85% of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools..." Gartner analyst Robert DeSisto Many large companies also underestimate how complex their business and customers are, which leads to an inadequate CRM program. Learn how to eas...

Every business today is looking to cut costs in these slowing economic times. Now, learn how to save costs by choosing the right IP office phone system. Many companies are transitioning from either a Centrex service or Key system / PBX product to a state-of-the-art Hosted IP or IP PBX ...

Learn what an Premise PBX system can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Traditional business PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and TDM (time-division multiplexing) systems are fast becoming outdated and obsolete and oftentimes do ...

Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant messaging (IM) programs such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, your company’s network is at risk for malware infection...

The ability to formally define, effectively retain, and successfully archive email and other electronic business records is one of the most important jobs facing US and Canadian organizations. Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively preserve, protect, and produce legally compliant em...

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Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end and not an end in itself; the reason tiered storage —not just tiered, but effectively and efficiently tiered storage—is becoming more crucial (indeed, a prerequisite for many organizations) is a simple matter of economics....

Intel is paying AMD $1.25 billion to settle the massive private antitrust suit AMD has lodged in Delaware. AMD will also drop two cases against Intel it has pending in Japan and withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide.Intel has also agreed to abide by a “set of business pra...

Today’s businesses are especially vulnerable to accidental email loss, compliance demands, and the threat of e-discovery. Yet these same companies often have the fewest resources for combating these risks on their own. Many businesses today are turning to email archiving services to el...

Gist, a beta-phase e-mail start-up kicked off by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, has raised a $6.75 million first round led by the Foundry Group. Its widgetry combines e-mails with the latest news about contacts taken from blog posts, social networking sires and Tweet...

InsideView for NetSuite was built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform and is the first social intelligence application delivered natively within NetSuite. The new application expands the NetSuite-InsideView partnership beyond its original sales intelligence focus to delive...

Netlist, Inc. launches HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank (vRank) memory module for servers. A double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud maximizes server utilization to improve datacenter application performance. HyperCloud a...

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines "Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS." The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP's website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byro...

Oh, my sainted aunt. Google thought about buying the New York Times, according to Barron’s, which got it from somebody else’s interview with Ken Auletta, author of Google: The End of the World as We Know It. Reportedly the hands of Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt were...

This may not be the best time to mention this – given New York’s antitrust suit – but Intel’s share of PC processors was up marginally year-over-year in Q3 from 81.2% to 81.5% according to Mercury Research and AMD gained a tenth of point year-over-year to 17.8%, but lost 0.7% sequentia...

In these times of VC austerity and penury, Greylock Partners in the space of four weeks raised a new, over-subscribed $575 million early-stage software, services and infrastructure investment fund – its first new fund in four years – and enticed Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman to join...

Someone has volunteered to try to explain what the heck Google Wave is. Whether it was worth her time remains to be seen. See http://completewaveguide.com/.

Microsoft and the government of Taiwan are going to set up a cloud research center before the end of the year. It should help local contract manufacturers develop cloud devices and services. Quanta, for instance, intends to start churning out cloud servers at some point. Microsoft mean...

Cisco has made yet another acquisition spending ~$44.5 million to buy the set-top box business of China’s DVN Holdings, giving it a toehold in China’s great and expanding cable market. Meanwhile, Tandberg isn’t going gently into the Cisco fold. Its stockholders, at least 24% of them, w...

The Utah district court, Judge Ted Stewart, a new face, presiding, has set November 23 for a status conference in the matter of SCO v Novell, the case over who owns Unix that the appeals court sent back to be heard by a jury. Novell is expected to do what it can to delay the case from ...

Wyse is launching support for VMware View 4 with integrated support for PCoIP across its line of existing thin clients, including immediate support for Wyse thin clients based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard. Wyse will also support PCoIP on its line of Li...

This may not be the best time to mention this – given New York’s antitrust suit – but Intel’s share of PC processors was up marginally year-over-year in Q3 from 81.2% to 81.5% according to Mercury Research and AMD gained a tenth of point year-over-year to 17.8%, but lost 0.7% sequentia...

Carly Fiorina, HP’s ousted CEO, has formally made herself a candidate to run for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket seeking to dethrone three-term Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer on the strength of her business background. Actually HP has done quite well with her acquisition o...

Prometheus Research announced today the availability of its new database software tool, HT//SQL, a web application that web-enables databases in all industries quickly, securely, and at low cost. Prometheus Research, a leader in biomedical research informatics, has been using a form of...

Fujitsu today announced the worldwide release of Interstage Business Process Manager (BPM) Version 11, offering enhanced "Sense and Respond" capabilities that let users proactively address changing business requirements. The latest release of Interstage BPM, which is also optimized to ...

Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s open source software to Like...

It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ...

It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a...

Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Opera want changes made. According to the ...

As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with...

RASS and 6fusion USA, Inc. announced a partnership to co-deliver cloud hosted desktop and server applications on demand. The joint offering promises to improve existing performance and cost limitations for customers moving away from a traditional on-site application delivery model. RA...

Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting C...

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct – revealed in e-mails – to maintain its monopoly power and prices on its microprocessors.” The colorf...

"On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in S...