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VMware is opening its Solution Exchange, an online marketplace that offers virtualization and cloud solutions, to help the company attract new customers and fend off competition from Red Hat, Microsoft and IBM.
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Tech Data is looking to make it easier for IT administrators and channel partners to overcome the complexity of end-user license agreements when it comes to buying technology, especially for business interested in implementing cloud services.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Price cuts to Nokia's Lumia 710 at Wal-Mart aren't a sign of more systemic trouble for the Finnish phone maker’s Windows Phone strategy.
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Salesforce.com hired former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra to lead the cloud-computing provider's expansion into government and other markets overseas.
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The two-day IBM event focuses on helping organizations become social businesses.
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Microsoft's week involved the unveiling of still more Windows 8 features, the trumpeting of Internet Explorer 6's imminent doom, and prepping for CES.
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RIM might offer a single BlackBerry 10 device, according to a new report. That would represent a sea change for RIM, which usually pushes multiple BlackBerry models.
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Quanta said AMD chips it used in NEC notebooks did not meet industry-standard heat-tolerance specifications, causing the computers to fail. AMD is disputing the claim.
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Nokia will likely offer up more Windows Phone smartphones at next week's Consumer Electronics Show, intensifying its U.S. campaign.
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Nokia is starting off its run to capture a chunk of the U.S. smartphone market with the Lumia 710, which it will market with T-Mobile at a low price ($49 with a two-year contract). For that cash outlay, users will receive a device with a handsome exterior and smooth user interface, 4G support, and respectable battery life (seven hours) and processor (1.4GHz Snapdragon single-core). It also boasts a 3.7-inch screen with 800-by-480 resolution. Nokia and T-Mobile, its carrier partner on the venture, recognize that they're marketing a midlevel smartphone. In that spirit, their campaign for an audience focuses on price and Windows Phone's supposed ease of use. This is a device meant for customers who've never owned a smartphone before, they argue, or find some higher-end rivals' devices too intimidating. The Lumia 710 runs Windows Phone Mango, Microsoft’s latest update to its smartphone platform. That update, with its hundreds of tweaks and features, potentially makes Windows Phone a viable option for a broad audience. While Mango has attracted largely positive reviews, Microsoft's smartphones continue to struggle for adoption in the face of significant competition from Google Android and Apple's iOS. Considering how all of Nokia's new phones will employ Windows Phone, the Finnish phone maker's survival is inevitably tethered to how well Microsoft and its partners can reverse that trend.
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The ultrabook also includes a set of productivity and security tools helping to enable energy savings and automatic patch updates.
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Microsoft is designing Windows 8 with an eye toward making resetting or refreshing the operating system a streamlined process.
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Nokia's Lumia 710 is a well-designed midlevel smartphone running Windows Phone "Mango." But it faces a challenge in Windows Phone’s tiny market presence.
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Microsoft will spend $200 million promoting Windows Phone to U.S. users in 2012, according to a new report. Windows Phone currently has minuscule market share.
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Advances in cooling may bring data center operating costs down, while extending the life of components.
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