Sprint seems to think its 4G tech would make an excellent replacement for the old-school T-1 lines many businesses have been relying on to keep them connected to the web since the 1970s.
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Sprint wants enterprise customers to consider WiMAX, ditch the T-1
The WebOS nuts at PreCentral have received an anonymous tip-off that HP’s imminent slate won’t be able to edit Office docs out of the box. As much as we’d like to dismiss this as a retaliatory rumor put out by BlackBerry, it emits an unfortunate whiff of truth. While HP has previously made a big deal of the TouchPad’s inclusion of the Quickoffice app, it has only said it’s “working with Quickoffice” to include document editing, and it has never demoed editing in action.
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HP TouchPad rumored to lack document editing at launch
D9 ‘s rolling right along here in California, and HP’s head honcho is on deck.
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Live from D9: HP CEO Leo Apotheker takes the stage
North Korea has already made its mark on the tablet market — albeit a rather unimpressive attempt — and even produced a supreme leader-approved OS , and now the DPRK is further proving its tech ambitions with the production of three different PC models.
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North Korea apparently pumping out state-sponsored PCs
We’ve been keeping our eyes on Motorola’s plans to sink its claws into the enterprise market for at least the past couple of months, and it looks like the company is ramping up its efforts with a rugged Android tablet fit for the workplace. A presentation provided to us by a helpful tipster outlines Moto’s plans to be the “first physical embodiment defining Android for the Enterprise,” with a Gingerbread-equipped tablet entering beta testing this October.
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Motorola to begin beta testing rugged Android tablet, steps up enterprise efforts
Asana is a company founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-Googler Justin Rosenstein. Its aim is nothing short of reinventing how we collaborate
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7 Things to Know About Asana: Facebook Co-Founder’s Collaboration Startup
Jive Software is adding four new members to its board of directors, including one of Mark Zuckerberg’s direct reports responsible for technical operations at Facebook; the current president of McAfee Software and the Google technologist responsible for the development of Google Chrome and HTML 5 initiatives. The move is part of what appearts to be Jive’s efforts to prepare for an Initial Public Offering. It shows investors that the company has the clout to achieve a level of strength that positions it to compete even more with its chief target: Microsoft.
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A Facebook Operations Chief and the Product Lead for Google Chrome OS Join Jive Board
What do we know about developers? What can we deduce about what they don’t do? We can make the educated guess that open source developers are unfamiliar and not really interested in the “one stack fits all” approach that the enterprise giants still battle to control
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Forget Rivalries, Pay Attention to the Developers
We’ll start a three-part series next week that explores how community is changing in the enterprise.
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3 Part Series: The New Enterprise, Cloud and Community
This week’s top story was Marshall Kirkpatrick’s revelation that Google has plans to launch a a new social network . Does it exist?
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Weekly Wrap-up: Google’s Social Network, Twitter’s Birth, Why Group Messaging? and More…
ProtonMedia says that increasing use of Macs in businesses means it’s now developing a Mac version of its respected virtual worlds software ProtoSphere , a virtual collaboration environment. Although the Windows version of its software is built on Microsoft technology, the company says its architecture means it can fairly easily port it over to the Mac. “When we looked into it, we found ProtoSphere was architected in such a way that it was entirely possible to produce a Mac version.
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Enterprise virtual worlds vendor ProtonMedia promises Mac client
Look at the evolution of the enterprise and a pattern emerges. On-premise systems evolved to meet business demands.
Google announced today a new process for Google Apps feature releases. Administrators will now be able to choose between a “Rapid Release” option that pushes new features to users automatically, or a “Scheduled Release” option that gives admins more control over when new features are pushed out. Sponsor This is an important step forward for Google Apps as it expands into the enterprise
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Google Apps Gives Customers the Option to Defer Feature Updates
Last week Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer 6 Countdown website, celebrating the dwindling use of the decade old browser.
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IT Poll: Do You Still Use Internet Explorer 6 in Your Workplace?
Some of the biggest challenges faced in large enterprise environments are bandwidth usage, the allocation and use of IP addresses, and security. In this installment of our series on virtualization, we’ll look at how virtualization intersects with each of these three issues in turn. The bandwidth problem is simple: consolidation means increasing bandwidth requirements beyond what a single or even several GigE links can provide
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Feature: Virtualization in the the trenches with VMware, Part 3: Networking in the enterprise
Stories about the plight of IT remind me of commercials that feature the haggard, overextended information worker who really could manage the work if he had eight minds working for him at the same time on the tasks at hand.
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The Tyranny of Consumerization and the Weapon That is the iPad – Not!
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is the lead keynote today at CloudConnect, an event that has sold out this year with about 3,000 people in attendance. Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, Cisco Systems and Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias will follow Vogels. Sponsor We’ll be looking for three key themes: The Importance of an Open Infrastructure.
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Live Blog from CloudConnect: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and the Scaling Cloud
More than half of the 517 organizations surveyed by Gartner use open source software (OSS). When the firm first started tracking open source in the enterprise five years ago, only 10% of organizations were using OSS. Gartner published the results in a report titled Survey Analysis: Overview of Preferences and Practices in the Adoption and Usage of Open-Source Software .
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Most Organizations Now Use Open Source Software According to Gartner
It’s a sign of the times : a company originally known for typewriters, and struggling to find its place in a tech-driven market, turns to manufacturing tablets. This week, Olivetti announced the release of the OliPad, staking its claim to a slice of the slab pie, and repositioning itself on the enterprise PC market
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Olivetti launches OliPad tablet, second coming of the typewriter?
It has been well documented that the iPad is starting to come into its own as a power player within the corporate world.
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Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
