Both products are provided as a software-as-a-service (SAAS) application and are aimed at midmarket businesses. – Sales and marketing automation solutions specialist ViVOforce announced the
launch of two products designed to meet the marketing and sales challenges of
small to medium-size business clients and enterprise clients. Both products are
provided as a SAAS (software-as-a-service) application, meaning…
Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system are the most coveted mobile platforms for current smartphone users looking to upgrade in 2011, Nielsen found. – Apple’s iPhone and smartphones based on RIM’s BlackBerry operating system are tied with 27 percent of U.S. smartphone market share, according to October data from the Nielsen Company.
Google’s Android operating system commands 22.7 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, Nielsen reported from a sur…
For the second year in a row, Evans Data has ranked Google and IBM as the top cloud computing environments for developers. Google was named best public cloud provider and IBM best at delivering a private cloud. – For
the second year in a row, Evans Data has ranked Google and IBM as the top cloud computing
environments for developers.
Based on the results of a
recent Evans Data survey of more than 400 software developers, Google stood out
as the favorite public cloud platform and IBM as the preferred pri…
In contrast with an Office 2007 release that jarred some users with major file format and interface changes, Office 2010 sports incremental advances in the suite’s core applications. The bigger changes in the suite center around its new Web versions, which offer a modest feature set and a focus on nailing file format fidelity. For a look at Office 2010 in action, check out the slide gallery below, and make sure to read eWEEK Labs’ full review here. If you’ve reviewed Office 2010 yourself, let us know what you thought of it at http://labs.eweek.com/product/microsoft-office-2010/. – …
Dell officials are boasting that Dell got to the market first with servers powered by Intel’s Xeon 7500 chips, code-named Nehalem EX, while IBM says more than 200 customers, mostly from HP and Oracle, migrated workloads to IBM systems in the first quarter. HP just refreshed its high-end Integrity server line with Intel’s Itanium 9300 processors, code-named Tukwila.
– Awaiting the increase in corporate IT spending that is expected come as 2010
moves along, top-tier systems vendors are aggressively pushing their platforms
as alternatives to those of their competitors.
Dell and IBM on April 27
both boasted of the positions their high-end offerings hold in the r…
At its IDF in China, Intel officials said that their “Sandy Bridge” chip platform, which will replace the current “Nehalem” microarchitecture, will be in production by the end of this year. In addition, they outlined their upcoming “Tunnel Creek” Atom-based system-on-a-chip design for embedded applications, such as IP media phones, printers and in-car infotainment systems.
– Intel officials used their developer conference in China
to give the industry a peek at their upcoming 32-nanometer “Sandy
Bridge” processor platform and
their “Tunnel Creek” Atom-based system-on-a-chip.
In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing
April 13, Dadi Perlmutter, ex…
Intels new four- to eight-core Xeon 7500 “Nehalem EX” platform is bringing x86 computing into the mission-critical space normally reserved for RISC and mainframe systems, analysts and customers said. At the same time, AMDs eight- to 12-core Opteron 6000 “Magny-Cours” chips will give customers more options in the two-socket space and an easier migration path to four-socket servers.
– In the space of less than 48 hours, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices
dramatically altered how the industry views x86 computing, offered high-end
customers significant options going forward and gave OEMs powerful new
computing platforms on which to innovate.
At the same time, the two chip makers …
Java is one of the flexible software development platforms which not only provide the support for simple application development but also provide the software solution for mobile phones, gaming, simulation and animation. With the help of Java you can not only develop simple application development but you can also develop a software solution for animation, simulation, mobile phones and gaming.
ESPOO, FINLAND, and SANTA CLARA, CALIF., Feb. 15, 2010 – In a significant development in the convergence of communications and computing, Intel Corporation and Nokia are merging their popular Moblin and Maemo software platforms.
IBM Jan. 18 unveiled the first applications for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms at Lotusphere 2010. Lotus Notes Traveler Companion is a free plug-in that lets iPhone users read their encrypted Lotus Notes e-mail. IBM later this year will also begin offering a Lotus Notes Traveler client for Android, beginning with Google’s Nexus One device. Also, RIM said it would sell BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr and a new version of the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections. RIM also said it was licensing Connections for use among its thousands of employees.
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IBM Jan. 18 used its Lotusphere 2010 conference
as the launching pad for several mobile-related announcements, including the
first applications for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms and social
networking apps on RIM-based smartphones.
Big Blue today released
Lotus N…
Microsoft released Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront United Access Gateway 2010 (UAG), two new security solutions designed to both secure employees Web surfing and their remote access to corporate networks. A Microsoft executive indicated in an interview with eWEEK that Microsoft is interested in consolidating many security applications onto a few key platforms, reversing what he suggested was the traditional fragmentation of the IT security industry.
– Microsoft released two new security solutions, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
(TMG) and Forefront United Access Gateway 2010 (UAG), on Dec. 3.
TMG intends to give IT administrators the ability to
granularly control which sites their employees can access, ostensibly to counter
threat…
Cost-conscious businesses will increasingly turn to communications platforms for e-mail, reputation and presence management (ERPM) in order to expand and manage their customer base, a report from BIA/Kelsey projects.
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A report by local media consulting company BIA/Kelsey
concluded although rapid growth of digital word-of-mouth through online reviews
and social media is still an untapped opportunity for small to medium-size
businesses (SMBs) looking to expand their customer base, this will chang…
Cost-conscious businesses will increasingly turn to communications platforms for e-mail, reputation and presence management (ERPM) in order to expand and manage their customer base, a report from BIA/Kelsey projects.
– A report by local media consulting company BIA/Kelsey concluded that although rapid growth of digital word-of-mouth through online reviews and social media is still an untapped opportunity for small to medium-size businesses looking to expand their customer base, this will change as SMBs adopt more …
Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting, and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.
– Evans Data has released
the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view
Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud
setting and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.
The survey, conducted in September, measured developers perceptions
of le…
Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.
– Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.
The survey, conducted in September of 2009, measured developers perceptions …
Collaboration is the cornerstone of getting work done in the enterprise. Collaboration may start with e-mail clients, but there are a number of platforms that enable file-sharing, offer wiki-like work space and provide real-time collaboration through Web conferencing. They also come in different packages, with some designed as on-premise installations and others deployed via the Web as cloud computing services. In this slideshow, eWEEK runs through some of the most popular collaboration platforms, from Microsoft SharePoint, to Zimbra and other solutions in between. This isn’t an attempt to rank the products, or favor one over the other, but to show businesses what’s out there to help employees better work together.
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The three new features are: early case-assessment analysis, new APIs to enable better integration into existing systems, and support for additional types of content. IBM has been specifically in this software market only for a bit more than a year.
– IBM, acknowledging a trend that is seeing enterprises upgrade legal search-and-find capabilities within their storage networks, unveiled on Aug. 12 some new analytics features for its InfoSphere eDiscovery Manager and Analyzer software packages.
The three new features are: early case-assessment a…
Would you rather fight than switch from VMware vSphere to Hyper-V or Xen-based implementations? eWEEK Labs compares the benefits and drawbacks of current virtualization platforms.
– When I reviewed VMware vSphere
4 in June, I gave it an eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice. I clearly think the platform,
formerly called VMware Infrastructure, is solid, and so do the many
organizations out there that have implemented it.
Recently, eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks
asked me what…
