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EMC is changing - but will its customers get the message?

Wind back a couple of years and look at how EMC presented itself to the world at large. It tended to be product-focused and was more interested in touting bigger storage densities rather than much else. ...

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01/06/2012 | EMCworld 2012.pdf | VIEW

TechRepublic

Adobe - From media to marketing - and beyond?

Remember Adobe? You know the company that does the PDF reader, provides the tooling behind all those flash sites and the software you always wanted to deal with your digital photos, but could never afford? Did you ever wonder what happened to it? ...

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01/06/2012 | Adobe 2012.pdf | VIEW

Computing

Google, Motorola and the future of Android

One of the world's leading software companies (Google) deciding to become a hardware manufacturer is an extremely significant event. It could also be extremely disruptive, potentially creating lots of problems for Google's existing partner, despite the search giant's claims to the contrary. ...

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28/05/2012 | QUO Googerola.pdf | VIEW

Know your mobile

The APM opportunity for resellers

Application performance management (APM) tools and services are an untapped opportunity for resellers. ...

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26/05/2012 | Quo CRN - APM - for web.pdf | VIEW

CRN

Mobile PBX integration - avoiding ‘tele-shirking’

As predicted and wished for by many, work is becoming something done, rather than a place to go. The once solid delineation of the workplace is breaking down and the impermeable barriers are becoming porous. A number of technologies are driving this – mobile, cloud, social – and ultimately the pervasive nature of lower cost, high speed and open networks are behind it. ...

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09/05/2012 | QUO teleshirking.pdf | VIEW

Computing

Why your phone isn’t quite ready for the post-PC era

Despite the compute power, memory and connectivity available on a mobile phone, the experience of using it to get online is not the same as a desktop computer. Not that we want it to be either. The web on your mobile should be a completely divergent experience – one that offers much more than the current PC-based standards. ...

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09/05/2012 | QUO mobile prescience.pdf | VIEW

Know your mobile

Hardware hassles? Time to make it someone else’s headache

For most organisations, the lifecycle of IT equipment is straightforward: buy it, provision it, run it, deprovision it and dispose of it. Simple and reasonably effective. However, unless it’s handled carefully, it’s an approach that could be doing organisations a major disservice. Starting with purchasing, for example - just how good a deal is your business getting? ...

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01/05/2012 | techrep - itlm.pdf | VIEW

TechRepublic

Citizen engagement: open, yet secure

Increasingly, government at central and local levels it coming to realise the benefits to itself and its citizens by moving services on-line. Housing, health, benefits – you name it, the public want to be able to interact via the web, rather than having to travel to some poorly lit and low-spirited office somewhere to sit and wait for someone to go through some basic advice. ...

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01/05/2012 | PubTech - open yet secure.pdf | VIEW

PublicTechnology

Google vs Oracle: the history, court case, and why it's bad for innovation

How ironic is it that a technology with the stated aim of spanning all hardware platforms so that software could follow the mantra “Write once, run anywhere”, could be so divisive? As tech giants Google and Oracle slug it out in the courtroom, a look into the past might shine some light onto where this whole legal skirmish might end up (at least if was down to marketing and engineering rather than legal and accounts departments). ...

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23/04/2012 | QUO google oracle.pdf | VIEW

Know your mobile

Buyer's Guide: Disclosing security breaches in SMEs – April 2012

Coming changes to data protection and disclosure legislation effect SMBs as well as enterprises ...

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19/04/2012 | CW InfoSec BG for web.pdf | VIEW

Computer Weekly