7 Biggest Stories of the Week: Dec. 8-12
What could be a better way to kick off the weekend than with a recap of the biggest stories of the week? Here they are, our seven biggest for the week ending Dec. 12.
December 12, 2014
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What could be a better way to kick off the weekend than with a recap of the biggest stories of the week? Here they are, our seven biggest for the week ending Dec. 12.
Ubuntu Linux fans won’t be enjoying an open source tablet this holiday season after all. The Demski Group has announced that the UT One, the Ubuntu-based mobile device it had been shooting to release as early as this month, has been delayed—although the company may be putting out a hacker-friendly Android tablet in its stead.
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IBM (IBM) and Apple (AAPL) rolled out what they termed the “first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS,” 10 new apps aimed at iPhone and iPad enterprise mobility clients in banking, financial services, government, insurance, retail, telecommunications and travel.
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Microsoft (MSFT) soon will disclose its new business model for the Windows 10 platform in which the impending operating system will not be positioned as a loss leader, chief operating officer (COO) Kevin Turner told attendees at a recent Credit Suisse technology investment conference in Phoenix.
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Bringing security to the forefront of its value proposition, cloud storage vendor Box has initiated Box Trust, its own security coalition of brand-name providers collaborating to assure the vendor’s business customers that their data is safe and secure.
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There’s no denying the Unix market is in a steep decline. Still, don’t look to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) to let go of HP-UX, its custom version of the Unix operating system, anytime soon, despite rolling out two new Intel (INTC) x86-based mission critical servers in a departure from its reliance on the Itanium platform.
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Recently, The VAR Guy had a chance to sit down with Cheryl Cook, vice president of Global Channels and Alliances at Dell, to get an inside look at the company’s third quarter 2014 earnings and how it plans to profit in the New Year. Here are five of the most important things we learned.
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With Microsoft Server 2003 end of support (EoS) approaching in July 2015, vendors and solution providers alike are preparing for the onslaught of opportunities and issues in migrating customers to newer technologies. To that end, Dell and Microsoft (MSFT) recently hosted a discussion on what they believe are the most important things to know about the impending EoS.
Read the story here.
With Microsoft Server 2003 end of support (EoS) approaching in July 2015, vendors and solution providers alike are preparing for the onslaught of opportunities and issues in migrating customers to newer technologies. To that end, Dell and Microsoft (MSFT) recently hosted a discussion on what they believe are the most important things to know about the impending EoS.
Read the story here.
What could be a better way to kick off the weekend than with a recap of the biggest stories of the week? Here they are, our seven biggest for the week ending Dec. 12.
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