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Former Berbee, CDW Execs Found Singlewire Software
Four former executives from Berbee Information Networks and CDW have joined together to start a new company, Singlewire Software.
Singlewire, based in Madison, Wis., will be led by Paul Shain, former CEO of Berbee and senior vice president at CDW, as president and CEO. The company will focus on...
Is Android On Netbooks Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare?
Now that Hewlett-Packard has confirmed that it's considering using Google's Android operating system in its netbooks, the 10 percent share of the netbook market that Linux currently enjoys looks poised to grow, according to some solution providers.Although many early netbooks shipped with Linux,...
Will Google’s CADIE Fool You?
Today, Google introduced CADIE, a "singular upgrade to your online life." CADIE, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, was switched on last night, according to Google's blog. CADIE even has its (her?) own Web site, which has a certain HAL 9000-like (as in from...
Windows XP support: the clock is ticking
With Windows XP moving to the extended support phase of its lifecycle next week, businesses need to plan to upgrade before full support for the ageing operating system ends.Users have until 14 April 2014 to migrate from Windows XP.But between now and then Microsoft will support the operating system...
Cloudforce: Sales Cloud boosts sales by 34%
Businesses like Dell and Cisco are using Salesforce.com's Salesforce Sales Cloud platform to boost their sales performance by as much as 34%, according to Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce,com.The Sales Cloud is the company's platform for allowing users to manage and share contacts, forecasts and...
Unified communications boost service centre efficiency
In a bid to transform its global contact centre and enterprise operations, IT management software giant CA has implemented a new unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solution from Verizon Business.In theory unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) systems can ultimately...
The top 10 operating system stinkers page 2
But then along came MS-DOS 4.0. Oh, it was horrid. Programs broke on it as regularly as clockwork. You'd be in the middle of a task, and your program would just freeze up completely. Nothing this bad was seen again until Windows' Blue Screen of Death. To save their sanity, PC users either dropped...
The top 10 operating system stinkers
Enough of the good old days! Let's talk about the bad old days of OSs instead.I love old technology as much as the next techno-geezer, but come on, it wasn't all wonder and goodness. After we're done reminiscing about the good old days of operating systems, let's reflect on the bad old days of...
Cisco to buy Tidal Software for $105 million
Tidal’s software will help Cisco customers to optimize the performance of their business applications and automate operations.Cisco this week said it intends to acquire Tidal Software, a privately-held maker of application management and automation software for service-oriented architectures and...
5 Tactics Microsoft Is Using To Battle Linux for Cloud Dominance
Can Microsoft really battle Linux for dominance of the cloud? It's a one versus many proposition. Sides have been chosen and the battle lines are clear. The Cloud Manifesto developed by Sun, IBM, RedHat, Amazon and Google, didn't include participation by Microsoft. They were miffed. Microsoft says...
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