Email is a commodity,says Brett Goldstein,Chicago's CIO,and that's why he's moving it to a cloud. The Windy City said Thursday it is migrating email and desktop applications to Microsoft's cloud services for about 30,000 employees. This ...
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IDG News Service-Dutch ministries can keep using social networking tool Yammer for internal communication despite worries in the parliament that data could secretly be seized by U.S.law enforcement agencies under the U.S.Patriot ...
Macworld-Apple's new Podcasts app is a welcome step to bringing attention to audio and video podcasts that were previously buried in the Music app.But while it has some good things going for it,it's a step that's not yet fully realized. ...
Huntingdonshire District Council is to switch from enterprise software vendor Aptean's Onyx CRM solution to Microsoft Dynamics and Optevia Local Government Essentials(OLGE)to cut costs. he council had shared the Onyx CRM platform under an ...
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Computerworld-Soaring iPhone 5 sales in the U.S.have helped make iOS the top smartphone operating system in the country,edging out Android,according to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Kantar Tuesday said its research found ...
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IDG News Service-Boundary has added analytics features to its cloud monitoring service to give enterprises a better idea of how applications running on public clouds are performing and warn them when something starts to go wrong. Boundary ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's recent price increases for its client-access licenses(CALs)is a"lose-lose"deal for enterprise customers but likely a major revenue boost for Microsoft,analysts said today. On Dec.1,Microsoft overhauled its ...
IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
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Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
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PC World-We've known for some time that a"pure GNOME"version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works,and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10"Quantal Quetzal,"the first GNOME Remix of the software has now made its debut as well. "The ...
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PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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Network World-A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices,as part of a phishing scheme. MORE ON ANDROID:Hottest Android ...
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IDG News Service-SAP is working on a number of potential next-generation BI(business intelligence)technologies meant to exploit the company's HANA in-memory database,including a new version of the popular Explorer visualization ...
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IDG News Service-Security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec have uncovered a piece of malware that uses Google Docs,which is now part of Google Drive,as a bridge when communicating with attackers in order to hide the malicious ...
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Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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