Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has been finalized, less than a month after the companies announced the cash deal. Yammer will become part of Microsoft's Office Division, which is led by its president, Kurt DelBene. Yammer ...
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Looking beyond PCs and tablets, Lenovo yesterday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group, which deals in servers, storage, networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on ...
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Corent Technology, Inc., a disruptive innovator in the Cloud Computing space, was honored as the most innovative cloud technology provider at the 19th Annual TechAmerica Orange County High-Tech Innovation Awards. "Our 'Plug & Play' suite ...
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Major retail hypermarket chain REAL, part of Metro Group, worked with IBM to launch a new electronic coupon system throughout its 320 German stores. This first-of-a-kind digital coupon system, developed with IBM Research scientists, ...
At IBM’s Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and services designed to help organisations analyse their expanding data sets more quickly. ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking off on September 17 in Stockholm, Sweden. The tour will be arriving in the Middle East on October 2nd and 3rd ...
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Following up on its purchase earlier this year of video optimisation company Radvision, Avaya Wednesday announced enhancements to its Aura and Flare unified communications (UC) platforms that could signal the company’s move into next ...
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IBM has announced the opening of three new branches across Brazil as the company extends its push into underserved territories in emerging markets and increases its support for clients and partners. With the new offices in the cities of ...
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IBM has combined a number of its online marketing software programmes into a unified service, called the IBM Marketing Centre. IBM has designed the service, an IBM Smarter Commerce offering, for organisations to outsource their online ...
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IBM has launched a new set of incentives and aids to help its service partners make better use of the company’s cloud services and products. IBM’s managed service provider (MSP) partners can now get financing, marketing ...
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IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing. The PureData systems have been assembled to excel at three common tasks within enterprise ...
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IBM, Epicor and other vendors could be eyeing a purchase of supply-chain software vendor JDA, analysts said Tuesday following a published report that the company was looking for suitors. The sale activities are “at an advanced ...
IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
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