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IBM Netezza, Revolution Launch Analytics Appliance
Revolution Analytics, the provider of R software, services and support, and IBM Netezza announced a partnership to integrate Revolution R Enterprise and the IBM Netezza TwinFin Data Warehouse Appliance. At the Predictive Analytics World conference in San Francisco on March 14, Revolution Analytics and IBM said their partnership enables customers seeking to run predictive analytics…
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HP Sets Cloud, WebOS and Analytics as Top Strategic Priorities
SAN FRANCISCO—In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud…
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SaaS Email Provider HyperOffice Adds Archiving
SaaS-based collaboration and messaging technology provider HyperOffice has announced the addition of a new hosted email archiving service to its existing portfolio of cloud-based offerings. The new service offered by HyperOffice recognizes that email is often the wrapper around critical corporate information such as contracts, invoices, business documents and other important information. HyperOffice executives said…
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The Problem with Tablets 10 Things They Cant Do
The Problem with Tablets 10 Things They Cant Do 1. Where’s the Physical Keyboard?One of the first issues consumers and enterprise customers might find with tablets is the lack of a physical keyboard. Unlike standard laptops or netbooks, tablets come with virtual keyboards. That helps reduce the devices’ footprints, but it also means typing on…
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ERP Vendor Lawson Software Gets Acquisition Bid
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) – Lawson Software said late on Friday it had received an unsolicited bid from privately held software company Infor and Golden Gate Capital to acquire all its outstanding common stock at $11.25 per share in cash. Shares of the software maker closed on Friday at $11.55, after having risen 18…
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Apple iPad 2 Sales Close to 1M Units in First Weekend
(Reuters) – Analysts expect Apple Inc to have sold close to a million iPad 2 tablet computers on its debut weekend — significantly more than the first iPad, which went on sale last April. "We would not be surprised to see Apple sell closer to 1 million iPad2s in the opening weekend," said Wedbush Securities…
