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- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. Since I...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD
- HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible tablet, are part of the new EliteBook line targeted at business users. The third is an HP Compaq model designed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating
- Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
- I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack
- With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Gateway P-7811FX
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Gateway's budget-minded, 17-inch gaming laptops have impressed of late, offering high-end graphics and enough CPU power to make for a decent gaming experience. Our...
- Product reviews 2008-08-15
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products
- It takes more than better attention to energy-efficiency or attention to materials to classify some gadget or another as green tech. That's why Hewlett-Packard has made a concerted effort to have its products vetted as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay logo program, which focuses on the fuel consumption...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Microsoft investigating NSlookup.exe flaw, reported attacks
- Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- First Android phone will not be competitive
- First Android phone will not be competitiveRub the iPhone out of your eyesYou seriously think that looks at all like an iPhone? Why, because it has a touch screen? If that is so, HP iPAQs of 2005 are iPhone clones 2 years before the iPhone was conceived. Apple seems to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Gateway's new desktop replacement: How much game does $1,400 get?
- Gateway's new desktop replacement: How much game does $1,400 get?After 3 less than reliable Gateways - I don't think soThis new Gateway looks nice but after purchasing 3 Gateway laptops (1 business and 2 commercial) over the last year and a half that have been less than stellar I don't...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Green Enterprise video: Cisco aims to cut energy use
- Green Enterprise video: Cisco aims to cut energy useBut have they stopped helping Red Chinese violate rights?The question hanging over the heads of HP, M$, Cisco, Google, et al. is not whether they watch their electricity bills, but when they will repent for their cooperation with the Red Chinese government...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- HP Pavilion dv7-1025nr
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The $1,499 HP Pavilion dv7-1025nr is both familiar and brand new at the same time. On the one hand, the desktop-replacement laptop is like any other Pavilion:...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the makingIT management SaaSIt’s good to see the discussion of SaaS being broadened. It is interesting to note that the majority of the movement in SaaS continues to be by companies that are focused on either the front or back office. There...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Apple is the tech equivalent of Disney World?!??!!!!
- Apple is the tech equivalent of Disney World?!??!!!!I think the gist is that computer tech is the equivalent of Disney.That would make Apple The Pirates of the Caribbean.I would assume that continuing the analogy would make MS the equivalent of It's a Small World.I allways thought their productsa little "Mickey...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14










