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California Agencies Favor Microsoft For Email
About two out of three state mailboxes will be migrated to Microsoft-hosted email, rather than a competing state system.
NIIT Technologies Acquires EHR Platform
Indian IT firm will enter the U.S. healthcare market with the Preferr hosted electronic health records and referral management software.
NATO Taps IBM To Build Private Cloud
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will test using the cloud to consolidate and modernize its IT resources.
Practical Analysis: Choosing SaaS Apps Is IT's Work
LOB partners tend to fall in love with an app’s interface and functionality, but they don’t know enough about things
like integration and user authentication.
SAP Goes On Demand
The prospects for the company's technology and multi-front, hybrid strategy look good. Now it's a matter of market execution.
Amazon EC2 Achieves Payment Industry Certification
Level 1 Payment Card Industry-compliant transaction processing systems can now be hosted by Amazon Web Services.
Where's Government Data In The Cloud?
Amid the Obama administration's 'cloud first' strategy, federal agencies face the prospect of seeing their data go offshore. There's a lesson to be learned from WikiLeaks.
Foursquare Unwraps API Version 2 Beta
Latest iteration uses OAuth2, not XML, to improve server responsiveness.
Xbox, Black Ops Top U.S. Gaming Market
Kinect system and Activision's team-based shooter drive videogame sales to new heights in November.
EA Releases Pogo For iPhone
The advertising-supported Pogo Games App escalates the mobile gaming competition between Electonic Arts and rival Zynga.
SAP Cloud Platform, App Store Set For 2011
On-demand portfolio will also gain line-of-business extension applications and Business ByDesign For Subsidiaries.
IBM Workers Could Lose Outsourcing Protection
Many ex-IBMers are counting on a federal program to make it through tough times—but trade adjustment benefits for tech services workers are set to expire.
Salesforce To Acquire Ruby App Hosting Service Heroku
Ruby applications currently run in Amazon's EC2 cloud, but one day may move to Force.com.
Bluetooth, iOS Enable Digital Camera Remote Control
The blueSLR device allows an Apple iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to control Nikon DSLR cameras from up to 300 feet away.
Google Resurrecting Offline Access To Docs
Google promised that offline access to Docs will return in 2011. It also added useful new features to Gmail that are available today.
Google Chrome OS Hardware Vanishes In The Cloud
The computer upgrade cycle could slow significantly as Chrome OS netbooks proliferate, at least in the lower end of the market.
OpenLogic Exchange Expands Open Source Compliance
The OLEX software as a service now includes alert options, as well as automatic delta and command line scanning.
Windows 7 Slates Won't Be Home For Christmas
Microsoft’s failure to get consumer-friendly tablets in stores for the holiday season could result in a frosty year-end quarter for the software maker.
What's Next And What's Missing From SAP
Influencer Summit offers window on what's coming in mobility, analytics and in-memory functionality. But is the social networking strategy missing in action?
USDA Taps Microsoft Cloud For 120,000 Workers
As part of its IT modernization strategy, the federal agency has turned to Microsoft and Dell to provide e-mail and other online applications across its operations.
10 Steps To Mobile Worker Support
Today, millions of workers never set foot in offices, and the ability to work from anywhere is a powerful recruiting tool. Fortunately, supporting roving employees is easier than ever. Here's how.
Google Adds Bidirectional Communications In App Engine SDK
Version 1.4.0 of the software development kit automates interactions between web servers and JavaScript in browsers, expanding what can run on the application hosting service.
10 Steps To Mobile Worker Support
Today, millions of workers never set foot in offices, and the ability to work from anywhere is a powerful recruiting tool. Fortunately, supporting roving employees is easier than ever. Here's how.
Benioff Announces Database.com, Issues Oracle Rejoinder
Salesforce.com's CEO dismissed the "old status quo players" who spread fear and doubt about the cloud at the Dreamforce user group event in San Francisco.
Wolfe's Den: Cisco Seeks To Rule The Cloud
The networking behemoth intends to automate cloud deployment, as spotlighted via its just-announced partnership with BMC. We chat with Lew Tucker, Cisco's chief technology officer of cloud computing, who talks about cloud-o-nomics, interoperability standards and how Cisco aims to be the go-to supplier of equipment to cloud providers.
Microsoft Rebates Oracle, Salesforce Customers To Switch CRM
Up to $200 per seat offered to lure rivals' customers into making the switch to Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management Online.
Salesforce.com Branches Into Database As A Service
Database.com will offer the same software that serves Salesforce's customer relationship management applications, but will companies buy into a multi-tenant database?
SAP StreamWork Lands In Google Apps Marketplace
Google Apps users can now try a collaborative decision-making application from SAP that includes technology from Google Wave.
Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Passes FISMA Test
Achieving key Federal Information Security Management Act approval paves the way for the vendor to grab a larger share of the government market.
Amazon Says Wikileaks Plug Pulled Over SLA Violation
Amazon says it halted operations of WikiLeaks servers in its EC2 cloud data center due to Wikileaks' breach of its service level agreement, including violations of the provision that it hold all rights to posted content.
Apple Bans Demos, Betas From Mac App Store
Unlike the iTunes App Store, where trial versions, betas and demo software are ubiquitous, only fully functional, retail versions of apps will be allowed in the planned Mac App Store.
Why Did Amazon Web Services Shut Down WikiLeaks?
If the real reason is the impact denial of service attacks had on other customers' EC2 service, what does that mean for less controversial cloud users hit by hackers?
APM Vs. The Cloud
IT must rethink its approach to managing the performance of cloud applications.
Gowalla Syncs With Foursquare, Facebook Places
Version 3 of the location-based service is available for iPhone, will launch Android and iPad iterations in January.
Microsoft Calls Google Gmail 'Deficient'
Redmond slams rival's e-mail offering after GSA rejects Outlook in favor of Google's cloud-based service.
General Services Administration Picks Google For Email
The first major federal agency to move its email to the cloud agency-wide offers the latest evidence of the emerging cloud email market.
HP Ditches Windows Home Server
Microsoft-based MediaSmart systems will give way to new line of products powered by Palm group's WebOS technology.
Cisco To Acquire Network Management Software Provider LineSider
Deal will boost Cisco's business in building and deploying secure cloud computing infrastructures.
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