GL Solutions is now able to leverage En Pointe's Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) agreements. State Regulatory Agencies now have a method to purchase our GL Suite software and GL Simple support without the complications of the RFP ...
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A majority of the city council in Freiburg,Germany,has voted in favor of ditching the open source suite OpenOffice to return to Microsoft Office after severe problems and complaints from employees. The council voted 25 in favor and 20 ...
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IDG News Service-AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499,the U.S.wireless carrier said on Tuesday. AT&T will offer Asus'VivoTab RT tablet,which has a 10.1-inch ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
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Microsoft today announced a new scheme to sell discounted Windows 8 devices into UK schools. The project, called Shape the Future, will see the company team up with Intel and classroom IT specialists RM Education with the goal of getting ...
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. The Cupertino, Calif. company may be trying to get the jump on ...
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Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
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IDG News Service-Dell on Tuesday said its XPS 10 tablet with Windows RT will start at$499,matching the price of Microsoft's Surface tablet that became available last week. The XPS 10 has a 10-inch screen,weighs 635 grams,and provides ...
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Software giant Microsoft has posted first quarter fiscal revenues down 7.9 per cent to$16bn(£10bn),from$17.372bn(£10.8bn)achieved in the same period a year earlier. The company claimed that the results partly reflected a ...
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Toyota Motorsport went to the market for a new IT service management(ITSM)system when a sponsorship deal with BMC came to an end,and has been reaping the benefits ever since. In 2003,Toyota Motorsport,which is the part of Toyota that ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced intentions for a "fundamental shift" in Microsoft's technology business model, describing a future in which the company will start to "build specific devices for specific purposes". In his annual ...
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Adobe is aiming to make document collaboration more straightforward with the latest version of its PDF software. According to Adobe, a central feature of the version is the ability to edit documents and reuse elements of existing ...
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Google has dropped support for the export of spreadsheets, documents and other files in old-style Microsoft Office formats. From 1 October, according to a notice placed on the company's website, users of all editions of Google Apps ...
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After nine months of deliberations and some changes on Google's side,the Norwegian Data Protection Authority lifted a ban on the use of Google Apps by municipalities. However,the decision does not give city authorities carte blanche to ...
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Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome,and paid out$29,500 in bounties to nine researchers,more than half of that to one of the company's most prolific bug finders. Chrome 22,which Google started pushing to current users on ...
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