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Half of CIOs Planning for Increase Tablet Use
Just a few days before the expected announcement of the Apple iPad 2, it seems the push for tablet use within the executive IT office is snowballing. A survey released last week by Robert Half Technology found that nearly half of CIOs believe their companies will increase the use of tablets in the next two…
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Siemens Launches Cloud-Based UC Solutions for SMB, Enterprise
Siemens Enterprise Communications launched new cloud-based unified communications solutions for both enterprise and SMB customers, as well as a wireless cloud communications solution from Siemens subsidiary Enterasys Networks. “We’re entering into the cloud market with products and offers we believe will be attractive to our channel partners,” Mark Straton, senior vice president, global solutions marketing…
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Verizon Unveils Cloud-Based Unified Communications Platform
Communications giant Verizon announced the rollout of cloud-based commercial Unified Communications & Collaboration-as-a-Service (UC&C) offerings, with capabilities including seamless call transfers from fixed to mobile phones and the use of “presence” technology, such as instant messaging, to initiate audio, Web and intra-company video conference calls both in and out of the office. The offerings, available…
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FalconStor Software Revamps Partner Program and Portal
Disk-based data-protection solutions vendor FalconStor Software has launched its new PartnerChoice tiered channel program and companion PartnerPlace Web portal that lets partners track opportunities and manage accounts. The three-tiered program helps partners by providing financial incentives, sales and marketing tools, training and support based on a partner’s business model and level of engagement with the…
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IBM: We Don’t Want To Be Google
LAS VEGAS – IBM has the capability to compete with Google or Microsoft’s Bing in the search arena, but the company has no interest in moving in that direction despite the strong showing IBM made in answering a variety of complex questions with its Watson supercomputer in a Jeopardy! quiz show competition. At IBM’s Pulse…
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Fujitsu to Unveil Enterprise-Ready Stylistic Q550 Tablet
HANNOVER, Germany—Fujitsu will be offering an iPad competitor that includes the features that nearly everyone wants in a tablet, plus features that business IT departments wish were already available in tablets today. The new tablet, dubbed the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550, will run Windows 7 Professional, but will offer a radically different interface that allows full…