Gartner is urging CIOs to change their IT budget to support a nexus of change arising from cloud, social, big data and mobile technology. The analyst expects traditional IT will have to split its budget to support these emerging ...
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Navigation technology provider TomTom today announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services(LBS)in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other ...
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CIO-With three major mobile platforms to choose from,what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS,with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure--and the fierce developer competition that comes ...
Tags: mobile platforms, mobile app developer, Windows Phone 8, Android and iOS
Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
SAP announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform this week,including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training,recruiting and sales. One of the six apps announced Tuesday was built first for Windows 8.Called SAP ...
Tags: SAP, Windows 8, mobile apps, mobile device management software
Microsoft plans to release Windows Embedded Standard 8 next March,as the company aims to bring Windows 8 features to a whole host of devices outside the PC,including ATMs,information kiosks,advertising displays and even industrial machines. ...
Tags: Microsoft, PC, Windows Embedded, Windows 8, Windows operating system
SAP said Tuesday that it plans to roll out a series of mobile applications for Windows 8, a move that underscores the companies' deep partnership at a time when many observers believe Microsoft's new OS is in for a tough ride. In ...
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Hewlett-Packard has twice revised its message to customers about downgrading new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the older Windows 7 in an attempt to clarify its position. In the revisions, HP left open whether it would provide drivers to ...
Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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Steven Sinofsky,the head of Microsoft's Windows division and the executive widely expected to be the next CEO,has left the company with immediate effect. No official reason was given for Steven Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft after 23 ...
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Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct.25. Computerworld-Steven Sinofsky,Microsoft's top Windows executive,abruptly left the company Monday,a move that some analysts saw as an ...
Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft Surface tablet, Sinofsky, Kremlinologist
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 ...
Tags: Asus Windows, RT tablet, VivoTab RT tablet, 32GB of storage
Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
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Getting to grips with Windows RT's development environments, and converting full-strength Windows 8 apps down to its cut-down RT partner is "nuanced" work that requires "quite a lot [that developers] will need to implement specifically", ...
Tags: Microsoft, Win RT, Win 8, Wade Wegner
Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct. 25. IDG News Service - Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new ...