Some recent Microsoft research pointed out an interesting trend: Small and mid-size businesses that see IT as a way to boost productivity make more money than those that don’t.
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Tags: Microsoft, midsize business, research, small
That much-touted marketing tool called “buzz” doesn’t seem to have helped cloud providers get businesses to adopt the technology as their storage solution.
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Tags: adoption, cloud computing, Forrester Research, storage
In a previous post, we wrote about the privacy expectations that aren’t exactly being met by social networking sites like Facebook. Now, there’s speculation that social networking sites may be providing info on users to their financial institutions.
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Tags: bank, blog, credit card, Facebook, information, Roger Thompson, security researcher
Okay, so Facebook’s got new privacy features that actually makes your profile info less private than it was in the past. And Rupert Murdoch’s whining that free content on the Internet’s gonna slurp up his billions made selling faux news on TV. Does anybody get what they want online anymore?
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Tags: controls, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook, information, privacy, Rupert Murdoch
Everybody’s talking about the Cloud, wishing they could be in the Cloud, but scared to venture to the Cloud. Except Apple, which appears to have moved to the computing stratosphere in a big way.
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Tags: acuqisition, Apple, cloud computing, Lala, music, streaming
In what looks like an effort to compete with Google Apps, the marketing geniuses at Microsoft are slashing prices for their online offerings. The question: Are they worth the price now?
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Tags: applications, e-mail, Google, Microsoft, office productivity suites, online
First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
Nobody likes to sound dumb, but it’s really easy when you’re talking about IT. The terms change fast
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Tags: Internet, IT, language, outdated, surfing, terms, World Wide Web
PHOENIX — Confused about “Cloud Computing” and whether or not it’s right for your organization? Help could be on the way (emphasis on “could”.)
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Tags: CDMI, cloud computing, Cloud Storage Initiative, CSI, Dloud Data Management Interface standard, SNIA, Storage Networking Industry Association
IT managers who are tired of hosting their own e-mail servers, but spooked by outages and glitches among Web mail services like Google’s, have a new alternative from IBM.
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Tags: calendar, contact management, e-mail, hosted, IBM, LotusLive iNotes, SaaS
