HP to Keep PC Division

Continued combination of HP and its Personal Systems Group expected to deliver greater customer and shareholder value

HP today announced that it has completed its evaluation of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG) and has decided the unit will remain part of the company.

“HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. “HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger.”

HP to Keep PC Division

British Airways Extends Outsourcing Contract with WNS

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced a 20-month extension in the outsourcing contract with its founder company, British Airways (BA), U.K.'s largest flag carrier airline. Under the renewed service agreement, WNS will focus on further strengthening the back-office operations center of excellence that delivers a range of airline operations, including customer relations, fares and PNR servicing requests, passenger and cargo revenue accounting, finance and accounting, research and analytics, revenue and yield management and HR shared services.

British Airways Extends Outsourcing Contract with WNS

Android Dominates Worldwide Smartphone OS Market

Canalys today published its final worldwide country-level Q2 2011 smart phone market estimates, showing substantial market growth in all regions. Globally, the market grew 73% year-on-year, with in excess of 107.7 million units shipping in the second quarter of 2011. Of the 56 countries Canalys tracks around the world, Android led in 35 of them and achieved a global market share of 48%. Asia Pacific (APAC) remained the largest regional market, with 39.8 million units shipping there, compared with 35.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and 32.9 million in the Americas.

Android, the number one platform by shipments since Q4 2010, was also the strongest growth driver this quarter, with Android-based smart phone shipments up 379% over a year ago to 51.9 million units. Growth was bolstered by strong Android product performances from a number of vendors, including Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei. The final country-level data delivered to clients today shows there were particularly strong performances from Android devices in APAC countries, such as South Korea, where Android holds an 85% platform share, and Taiwan, where it has 71%.

With shipments of 20.3 million iPhones and a market share of 19%, iOS overtook Nokia's Symbian platform during the quarter to take second place worldwide. In doing so, Apple also became the world's leading individual smart phone vendor, stripping Nokia of its long-held leadership position.

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Android Dominates Worldwide Smartphone OS Market

Is Facebook Really Worth $100 billion?

Is Facebook Really Worth $100 billion?

Today Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site with an active user base of over 750 million users making it the largest website in the world in terms of user base but, Facebook has long since evolved into substantially more than just being a website and in this article we’ll take an in-depth look at the social media giants evolution and why some are placing such a high valuation on it.

Facebook has grown so big in just seven years that going public is inevitable; the target date for their IPO is early 2012. The social networking giant currently has approximately 2.4 billion shares outstanding, according to the latest data from Sharepost, an online marketplace that links private companies and prospective investors.

Facebook has raised $2.2 billion in funding since its founding in 2004 and with estimated revenues of $4 billion for the year 2011, it is currently being valued at somewhere between $70-100 billion according to various firms.

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Rethinking the Marketing Funnel in a World of Social Media

As the adoption of social media, mobile computing and new digital behaviors continues to deepen, businesses today are faced with the challenge of rethinking many of their basic strategic paradigms. In thinking about customers, businesses are facing a shift from a paradigm of individual customers to one of customer networks. At the same time, many models for marketing need to be updated as well.

From "The Network Is Your Customer," by David Rogers (Yale University Press, 2011) www.davidrogers.biz

Rethinking the Marketing Funnel in a World of Social Media

Five reasons Android can fail

ZDNet - I use Android every day both on my Droid II smartphone and my Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-reader/tablet. I like it a lot. But, I also have concerns about how it’s being developed and being presented to customers.

Before jumping into why I think Android faces trouble in the long run, let me mention one problem I don’t see as standing in Android’s way: The Oracle lawsuits Yes, Oracle claims that Google owes them billions in damages for using unlicensed Java technology in Android’s core Dalvik virtual machine.

I follow patent lawsuits and here’s what going to happen with this one. It will take years and millions of dollars in legal fees, but eventually Google will either beat Oracle’s claims or pay them hefty licensing fees. So, yes, one way or the other Google, and to a lesser extent Oracle, will spend hundreds of millions on this matter before it’s done. But, so what?

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Five reasons Android can fail

The Power Of Pull

What makes email, Facebook, and Google so valuable? Answer: Visiting them is largely unprompted, notwithstanding the synapses that fire in your brain that make you check your email, your Facebook feed, or decide to research something on Google. In other words, people pull content themselves, rather than having that content be pushed — or foisted — upon them.

The best way of looking at consumer web applications is as a complex stack of “pulls” and “pushes.” Lest these terms be confused with an earlier generation of push: a “pull” is an unsolicited action by a consumer, whereas a “push” is a solicitation by a seller/producer. The consumer ultimately “pulls” from a mobile phone or computer. Everything else is “pushed” to the consumer, through ads, e-mails or other marketing efforts from companies eager to get business and traffic.

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The Power Of Pull

Why Is Zynga Rushing Towards Its IPO?

The IPO window is now wide open, with everyone from Zynga to Groupon rushing towards it. Nobody knows how long that window will stay open (rule of thumb is 18 months), so better go public while you can. But today’s IPO filing from Zynga came particularly fast. According to one source, the actual writing of the 150+ page S-1 document was one of the fastest documentation processes for an IPO of this size, only taking two to three weeks.

CEO Mark Pincus abruptly cancelled a planned appearance at the D9 conference at the beginning of June, adding to speculation that was when Zynga decided internally to go ahead with the IPO. The three-week period referenced above was the time between what is known as the first “org meeting” with bankers and the final document filed today.

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Why Is Zynga Rushing Towards Its IPO?

Google’s Six-Front War

Techcrunch - While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook, it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles. And make no mistake about it, they are fighting back and fighting back, hard. Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Ben Horowitz laid the groundwork for this in his post Peacetime CEO / Wartime CEO, saying Larry Page “seems to have determined that Google is moving into war and he clearly intends to be a wartime CEO. This will be a profound change for Google and the entire high-tech industry.” Horowitz is exactly right.

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Google’s Six-Front War

I officially love Google+...Too bad I can't dump Facebook

I think Robert Scoble may have said it best in his review of Google+:

…it’s clear Google has turned a corner. They have now proven to everyone that they can do social and get on the playing field.

But they haven’t yet proven that they can convince your mom to use it…

He goes on to not only talk about how much he loves Google+, but also how he’s more than happy to have it remain the exclusive domain of the technorati (I’m paraphrasing, of course, but you get the point - He, like many of us at ZDNet and the broader sphere of geekdom likes the especially geeky features of Google’s new social tool). It actually harkens back to the early days of Gmail when it was invite-only and only the coolest of nerds had accounts. It was different and we were the only ones who “got it.”

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I officially love Google+...Too bad I can't dump Facebook

Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in unified communications (UC), was named the recipient of 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year Award, for the company’s leadership in delivering innovations that provide powerful, enterprise-grade UC and visual collaboration solutions for customers. Polycom is being honored for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Polycom will be officially honored at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2011 next month during the Vision keynote and at the WPC 2011 Award Winners Executive Luncheon.

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Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

CA Technologies Delivers Next Wave of Mainframe 2.0 Products and Programs

Responding to continued customer needs to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their mainframe platform, CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced enhanced products and programs aimed at reducing costs, simplifying management and improving operational efficiency.

“Lowering the total cost of computing is a priority for all IT organizations,” said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “The latest Mainframe 2.0 products and programs help them achieve that goal on the Mainframe by simplifying management, exploiting specialty processors and delivering services that drive operational efficiencies.”

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CA Technologies Delivers Next Wave of Mainframe 2.0 Products and Programs

Big Data: The New Frontier of Analytics

It used to be if you wanted to run a big database, you got yourself a big computer. For a really big database, that meant a big mainframe or a cluster of hefty servers. But today, businesses and researchers alike are interested in vast collections of data that would swamp even a supercomputer and overwhelm any standard database management software.

Welcome to the world of big data. The exact definition of big data is a bit slippery, but Wikipedia does quite well: "Data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Big data sizes are a constantly moving target currently ranging from a few dozen terabytes to many petabytes of data in a single data set." Examples of such data sets range from billions of Google searches conducted by millions of users to the data collected by millions of weather sensors around the globe to all the purchases of British supermarket shoppers.

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Big Data: The New Frontier of Analytics

New World of Work Drives the Next Generation of Windows PCs

The world of enterprise computing looks a lot different than it did 10 years ago, driven largely by the demands of an evolving workforce. Increasingly mobile employees, demand for improved efficiencies and productivity, streamlined collaboration and communication, and a need to access and manage sensitive data are the business trends driving technology innovation across the PC ecosystem.

As a result, Microsoft is working with manufacturers to design PCs that support work from anywhere more easily and more securely — whether that means staying put in an office, running a small business or globetrotting from one business meeting to another, laptop in hand.

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New World of Work Drives the Next Generation of Windows PCs

Global software market will grow by 8.2% in 2011 to hit $267 billion

The global business software market will burst into life this year, when it will grow by 8.2% to hit $267 billion, according to Ovum.

In a new forecast*, the independent technology analyst predicts that recovery from the global economic downturn will begin in earnest this year for the sector, which did not grow at all in 2010.

The promising outlook means the business software sector will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7% during the next four years, reaching revenues of $358 billion in 2015. The strong growth is driven by exploding volumes of data, increased enterprise mobility, the transition to cloud computing models, and the emerging markets.

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Global software market will grow by 8.2% in 2011 to hit $267 billion

Gartner Says India Enterprise Software Market Grew 16.3 Percent in 2010 to Reach $2.5 Billion

The India enterprise software market showed broad growth and recovery in 2010 with total software revenue increasing 16.3 percent annually to total $2.5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2009, India revenue grew just 4.2 percent to $2.1 billion.

"In 2010, major software vendors expanded their product portfolios, acquired companies where appropriate to their plans, and reached deeper into emerging markets including India," said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner. "The year represented a return to solid footing as the India market expanded in terms of revenue and maturity.”

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Gartner Says India Enterprise Software Market Grew 16.3 Percent in 2010 to Reach $2.5 Billion

HP Deepens Commitment to China

HP today announced a series of new initiatives designed to accelerate growth and investment in China and to deliver seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.

HP investments in cloud computing, systems research and development, technology infrastructure transformation projects and social media platforms will expand the company’s presence in China’s largest cities and accelerate its growth in the Chinese market. The programs align with China’s priorities and HP’s growth plans announced earlier this year.

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HP Deepens Commitment to China

Consumerization of IT Reaches Tipping Point, Ushers in New Era of Consumer Driven IT

The consumerization of IT across enterprise scale IT organizations has reached a tipping point where mainstream IT organizations are recognizing that they can no longer ignore the transformational impact of consumer technologies in the enterprise.

A new IDC study, titled “IT Consumers Transform the Enterprise: Are You Ready?”, Doc #6201, May 2011, sponsored by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and released today, reveals that while the consumerization of IT creates many new opportunities, including increased employee productivity, improved customer interactions, and faster and more agile business operations and decision making, it also results in significant IT management and security challenges.

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Consumerization of IT Reaches Tipping Point, Ushers in New Era of Consumer Driven IT

IBM Study Identifies New Generation of Connected Health Devices

Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness devices, and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been tapped, according to a study from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The company also unveiled a list of possible wellness device innovations of the future, which have the potential to change how people live, exercise and interact with their healthcare provider over the next five years.

Increasingly, wellness devices will be used to fill the information gap for consumers that are relatively healthy, but need devices that provide information to help them gain greater control over their conditions and lead healthier lives. These devices will plan, predict and monitor information, feeding it directly to caregivers and clinicians as well as support networks. Users will interact with devices on their own terms, and connect them via broadband, wireless and wireline connections.

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IBM Study Identifies New Generation of Connected Health Devices

Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending Is on Pace to Grow 7.1 Percent in 2011

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to grow 7.1 percent in 2011, according to the latest quarterly spending outlook by Gartner, Inc. Analysts have revised overall IT forecast spending growth in U.S. dollar terms, up from their first quarter update, when they projected 5.6 percent growth for 2011.

"It is a bit surprising that we have not seen a more significant impact on our global IT spending forecast as a results of the Japan earthquake and tsunami, but despite widespread concerns about disruptions to the supply of critical components in the initial aftermath of the natural disaster, there has not been a dramatic impact on overall IT spending," said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner. "For 2011 as a whole, we expect Japan IT spending to be down in local currency, but we expect a positive growth trend to emerge in the second half of the year and continue into 2012."

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Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending Is on Pace to Grow 7.1 Percent in 2011

CA Technologies to Acquire Privately-held ITKO for $330 Million in Cash

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Interactive TKO, Inc. (ITKO), a leading provider of service simulation solutions for developing applications in composite and cloud environments, for $330 million in an all-cash transaction.

Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving IT organizations to quickly adopt new approaches such as composite application architectures and cloud services. As the quest for quickly delivering high-quality business services continues, IT management – from automation and security to governance and service assurance – becomes the most critical factor for success.

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CA Technologies to Acquire Privately-held ITKO for $330 Million in Cash

Wipro builds Private Cloud for OnStream

Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) has successfully built a private cloud for OnStream Utility Metering Services Limited. OnStream provides gas and electricity metering solutions in United Kingdom. OnStream is part of National Grid Group, which is one of the largest energy delivery businesses in the world and the largest investor-owned utility in United Kingdom. Wipro which has a matured set of cloud offerings initiated the private cloud project for OnStream in October 2010.

"With the commencement of a smart metering roll out in the UK and the need for a flexible dual fuel smart metering offering, OnStream embarked on a transformational programme through 2010 and into 2011, designed to improve service quality, improve business efficiencies and deliver a step-change in customer experience which would be at par or better than offered by home-visit operations in other sectors." said Declan McLaughlin, Head of Transformation at OnStream.

As a part of this programme, OnStream replaced its existing legacy IT infrastructure with a new service driven model using a private cloud approach. This approach aligned the IT architecture to be more flexible in functionality and configuration while at the same lowering operational cost and improving responsiveness.

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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Globally

Today, at media events around the world, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service, at a predictable monthly subscription.

The service was introduced in beta last year with enthusiastic response and, in a few months, more than 200,000 organizations signed up and began testing it. Businesses using Office 365 are already reporting impressive results and reducing IT costs by up to an estimated 50 percent while boosting productivity.

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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Globally

News Corp sells Myspace, ending six-year saga

Reuters) - News Corp has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations.

Advertising company Specific Media will team with the singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace for $580 million in 2005.

At the time, Myspace was among the world's most popular websites, and News Corp's success in beating out rival Viacom Inc in a bidding war was viewed as a major victory for Murdoch. Since then, however, Facebook has eclipsed Myspace in popularity, and the deal has become a hard lesson in what can happen when a traditional media company imposes its will on a start-up.

It also shows how quickly audience -- and investor -- tastes can shift in the world of social networking. Indeed, Wednesday's deal contrasts sharply with the current frenzy over social media companies, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Groupon, among investors looking for the next big thing.

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Skype introduces video calling for Android phones

Skype, which is being bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, introduced a new service on Thursday allowing users of Android phones to make free video calls to Skype contacts, including those on Apple iPhones.

The company whose name became synonymous with Internet calling in the mid-2000s said its updated Android app would initially support video calling on selected HTC and Sony Ericsson Phones, with more to follow soon.

"We are committed to bringing Skype video calling to as many platforms as possible," Skype's product and marketing chief Neil Stevens said in a statement.

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Tech wrap: Microsoft reaches for the cloud

Everyone seems to be gabbing about the “cloud” these days. Whether it’s Apple’s much-hyped iCloud service or the Amazon Cloud, the now-popular euphemism for web-based software services has become one of the tech world’s biggest buzz words. Microsoft joined in on the action today by unveiling a revamped web-based version of its popular Office suite of business software. But Microsoft’s main target here is not Apple or Amazon, but Google, which has stolen some of the software maker’s corporate customers in recent years with cheap, web-only alternatives.

With Office 365, customers will be able to access familiar applications such as Outlook email, Excel spreadsheets and SharePoint collaboration tools beyond the desktop on a variety of different devices wherever there is an Internet connection. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted the service’s online format and built-in conferencing tools as especially good for small and medium-sized businesses looking to save money. Microsoft has offered online versions of some of Outlook and some other applications to corporate clients for years, but increased competition seems to have spurred Microsoft’s latest push into the cloud.

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Tech wrap: Microsoft reaches for the cloud

LinkedIn data reveals men are savvier online professional networkers than women

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 100 million members worldwide, today released data on the differences between men and women when it comes to networking professionally online.

To declare a winner in this battle of the sexes argument, LinkedIn developed an online professional networking "savviness" ranking. Globally and in the U.S. men are savvier online professional networkers than women. LinkedIn defines online professional networking savviness as a ratio of two things: the ratio of connections that men have to connections that women have and the ratio of male members on LinkedIn to female members.

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LinkedIn data reveals men are savvier online professional networkers than women

TCS is recognized for its large banking applications outsourcing relationships

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 523540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, today announced that Everest Group, an advisory and research firm on global services, has recognized TCS as a leader in large banking applications outsourcing relationships in its June, 2011 report.

The Everest Group evaluated leading global IT vendors servicing large (>US$25 million), multi-year (>3 years) applications outsourcing engagements specific to the banking sector in terms of delivery capability and market success. The evaluation was based on the five key dimensions of the group’s proprietary PEAK Matrix: market success, scale, scope, domain investments and delivery footprint. On an aggregate basis, TCS received the highest scores out of all the service providers in the analysis across both market success and delivery capability.

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Canalys Names Trend Micro as World's Fastest-Growing Leading Content Security Vendor

The latest independent Canalys study of worldwide enterprise security market share found that Trend Micro Incorporated ((TYO:4704; TSE:4704)) is the world's fastest -growing leading content security vendor, with a 17 percent growth rate (Q1 2010 - Q1 2011). The Canalys study, "Canalys estimates, Enterprise Security Analysis, June 2011," covers Content Security, Network Security and Security Management sectors for Q1 2011. According to Canalys, Content Security (anti-malware, messaging security and web threat security) is one of the fastest growing sectors measured by end-user value. The study reported Trend Micro as the fastest growing of the world's leading content security vendors in Q1 2011 with 17 percent growth, outpacing Kasperksy at 12 percent growth, and Symantec and McAfee with 6.9 and 6.5 percent growth, respectively.

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CA Technologies and Dimension Data Asia Pacific Collaborate to Drive Cloud Adoption

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and Dimension Data Asia Pacific (formerly known as Datacraft Asia) today announced they are collaborating to drive enterprise cloud adoption throughout Asia Pacific. Dimension Data has developed Operations–as-a-Service (OaaS) offerings based on CA Technologies virtualization management, service automation, capacity management, and service assurance solutions to operate cloud infrastructure.

Dimension Data’s OaaS offerings address clients’ needs to maintain control of service delivery and assure the performance of IT and business services across private, public and hybrid clouds. The offerings are designed to help customers achieve greater business agility, reduce risk, and control costs.

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CA Technologies and Dimension Data Asia Pacific Collaborate to Drive Cloud Adoption

MindTree Launches MWatch - Integrated IT Infrastructure Management Platform

MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services Company, today launched MWatch, an Integrated IT Infrastructure Management Services Platform. MWatch provides CIOs and IT Infrastructure Managers with a built-in monitoring and management tool encompassing their entire infrastructure from desktops to servers, increasing IT and service efficiencies and reducing costs.

“There is a plethora of disparate tools and processes today to manage different elements of any IT infrastructure, resulting in fragmented and inefficient operations,” said Ram C Mohan, SVP & Head, Infrastructure Management & Technical Support, MindTree Limited. “MWatch is a secure platform that facilitates consolidation and provides a complete view of the infrastructure, enabling CIOs to optimize IT performance, streamline work flows and eliminate unnecessary expenditures.”

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MindTree Launches MWatch - Integrated IT Infrastructure Management Platform

India needs a New Revolution

India has achieved phenomenal success in becoming the world’s back-office. As Indians we like to believe that TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL are IT superstars but none of these companies have been able to move up the stack and create a Google, Apple or Microsoft. Most of the revenues of TCS, Infosys and Wipro come from outsourcing. It can be questioned whether these companies are “glorified BPOs”.

A recent study by a reputable research group states that Indian companies continue to display low levels of ambition, as measured by their commitment to research and development. India's spends 0.7% of its GDP on R&D and this is one-fourth the spending of the US, less than half of China's and lower than that of Brazil.

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HP Fuels Growth, Innovation for Small and Midsize Businesses

HP today announced new solutions, advanced technology and an expanded entrepreneur program to enable small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to drive growth, improve employee productivity and protect assets.

Representing an estimated $234 billion in total addressable market,⁽¹⁾ SMBs are faced with daily challenges that include controlling costs, managing employee productivity and gaining access to credit. HP is committed to delivering solutions, financing and programs that allow clients to realign resources toward growth and innovation.

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HP Fuels Growth, Innovation for Small and Midsize Businesses

Intel Equipped to Lead Industry to Era of Exascale Computing

At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Kirk Skaugen, Intel Corporation vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, outlined the company’s vision to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by the end of this decade. An ExaFLOP/s is quintillion computer operations per second, hundreds times more than today’s fastest supercomputers.

Reaching exascale levels of performance in the future will not only require the combined efforts of industry and governments, but also approaches being pioneered by the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC¹) Architecture, according to Skaugen. Managing the explosive growth in the amount of data shared across the Internet, finding solutions to climate change, managing the growing costs of accessing resources such as oil and gas, and a multitude of other challenges require increased amounts of computing resources that only increasingly high-performing supercomputers can address.

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Intel Equipped to Lead Industry to Era of Exascale Computing

IBM Launches Smart Cloud for Disaster Recovery and Data Archive

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes versus days in the event of a disaster.

Disasters - whether from hurricanes, earthquakes or IT failures - can cause significant damage to businesses in the loss of crucial data and revenue. Analyst estimates state that the loss of revenue during downtime is tens of thousands of dollars for every hour.

Businesses need to assess threat risks and create a resilience strategy that helps ensure uninterrupted business operations and enables speed and agility when an unforeseen event strikes. The new IBM SmartCloud Resilience services allow customers to protect their data and applications faster, cheaper and in a more flexible manner than they could before within a traditional data center environment.

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IBM Launches Smart Cloud for Disaster Recovery and Data Archive

SAP Makes Analytics Easy for SMEs and Lines of Business

As part of its goal to bring customers of all sizes powerful, easy-to-use analytics solutions that lead the market, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the latest offerings tailored to fit the needs of small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and lines of business. Via flexible deployment options, SAP® Crystal Server 2011 software and the 4.0 release of SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge Business Intelligence (BI) software are designed to help enable customers to get up and running quickly to better understand all facets of their businesses and make confident, data-driven decisions as events unfold, in real time.

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SAP Makes Analytics Easy for SMEs and Lines of Business

Networks Product Guide recognizes Wipro's Integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution

Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) announced that its Integrated Governance, Risk & Compliance solution has won an award at the 6th Annual '2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards' organized by 'Network Products Guide', a leading technology research and advisory guide, in the Governance, Risk & Compliance category.

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Networks Product Guide recognizes Wipro's Integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution

Canvera Digital Technologies Private Limited

Canvera announces the launch of Canvera Vivyo, an e-commerce and social platform for photographers. Vivyo enables photographers to leverage the internet for marketing and selling their work, and to collaborate with their clients through an online hosted solution. On Vivyo, photographers can create their own online photography portfolio websites in as little as 15 minutes using a rich library of themes included in the platform. Photographers can also easily create microsites for their clients, where all the pictures and videos of an event or occasion can be beautifully showcased and shared directly shared on social media. In addition photographers can collaborate with their clients online through features like image selection, comments, "Like" etc and also allow guest contributions of pictures and videos directly to the sites.

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Canvera Digital Technologies Private Limited

SourceLink Launches New Integrated Services Approach

SourceLink, a top 15 U.S. direct marketing services agency, has transformed its organizational structure to better align its multichannel marketing capabilities with its industry leading team of marketing strategists. This new structure allows for streamlined client consultation on fully integrated, data-driven direct marketing solutions across multiple disciplines. In addition, organizational changes have been made to more closely align SourceLink’s digital expertise with the needs of its clients.

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SourceLink Launches New Integrated Services Approach

Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Advertising Revenue Forecast to Reach $3.3 Billion in 2011

Worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecast to reach $3.3 billion in 2011, more than double the $1.6 billion generated in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide revenue will reach $20.6 billion by 2015, but not all types of mobile advertising will generate the same opportunity. Search and maps will deliver the highest revenue, while video/audio ads will see the fastest growth through 2015.

"Mobile advertising is now recognized as an opportunity for brands, advertisers and publishers to engage consumers in a targeted and contextual manner, improving returns," said Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner. "For that reason, mobile advertising budgets are set to increase tremendously across the various categories and regions, growing from 0.5 percent of the total advertising budget in 2010 to over 4 percent in 2015."

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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Advertising Revenue Forecast to Reach $3.3 Billion in 2011

Nimsoft Expands Management Support for NetApp Storage

Nimsoft today announced enhanced monitoring capabilities for NetApp resources, enabling enterprises and service providers to optimize the performance and availability of their critical data center assets while driving down operational costs and maximizing service levels. Through its multi-tenant monitoring of NetApp storage, Nimsoft Monitor allows customers to readily integrate management of these resources into both cloud and non-cloud environments.

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Nimsoft Expands Management Support for NetApp Storage

Scientists Unfolding Protein Mystery, Fighting Disease with Windows Azure

Cloud computing is helping biologists uncloud one of nature’s biggest mysteries: proteins.

Microsoft has partnered with the University of Washington’s Baker Laboratory, one of the world’s top computational biology labs, to give scientists access to some high-caliber computing power. That, in turn, helps them explore and understand proteins, which could eventually lead to thwarting everything from Alzheimer's to Malaria, and from cancer to salmonella.

Proteins turn from random coils into functional three-dimensional structures by folding themselves. Once folded, proteins become the building blocks and workhorses of the body. Some of the most harrowing modern diseases are linked to this process and when proteins fail to fold correctly.

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Scientists Unfolding Protein Mystery, Fighting Disease with Windows Azure

RIM and Ingram Micro Join Forces to Expand BlackBerry Enterprise Solutions in India

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, and Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company in India, today announced they are working together to provide corporate customers and SMBs with mobility solutions. Ingram Micro India Limited, through its strong network of Value Added Resellers (VARs), will distribute the full portfolio of BlackBerry® enterprise solutions in India, including smartphones, accessories, software and technical support services. The enterprise offerings include mobile solutions to boost productivity, increase sales performance and improve customer service.

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RIM and Ingram Micro Join Forces to Expand BlackBerry Enterprise Solutions in India

Accelerating Your Journey to Microsoft Virtualization

Last month at Microsoft TechEd 2011, I presented the topic of Accelerating Your Journey to the Private Cloud based on Microsoft virtualization and EMC technologies. Below is a recap of this presentation, the full audio version and slides can be found at the Microsoft TechEd website or a replay of this presentation is also available at the Windows IT Pro website. First it is important to understand the phases that EMC believes all companies go through when virtualizing their datacenter, regardless of the technologies used or the size of the company. The journey to virtualization consists of three phases which are related to the amount of virtualization that has occurred. The first phase consists of virtualizing IT Production applications. In this first phase customers begin virtualizing and expand this to include up to 30% of their workloads. The second phase involves virtualizing Business Production applications as companies virtualize up to 50% to 85% of their environment. The third phase is IT as a Service and allows companies to run IT as a business with 95% or more virtualization in the environment.

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Accelerating Your Journey to Microsoft Virtualization

Ramco Systems Launches Ramco OnDemand-Analytics & Gateway Products on the Cloud

Ramco Systems (BSE - 532370, NSE - RAMCOSYS, MSE - RSST); a leading software company focused on consulting, products and managed services, today announced the launch of Ramco OnDemand-Analytics and Gateway products on the Cloud. With this launch, Ramco Systems strengthens its leading position as a provider of Enterprise cloud products. The company currently has 3000+ users for its ERP on the Cloud and expects to touch 7000 users in 12 months.

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Ramco Systems Launches Ramco OnDemand-Analytics & Gateway Products on the Cloud

IBM Business Analytics Helps Papa Gino's Grab a Bigger Slice of the Pie

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Boston-area based pizza chain Papa Gino's has turned to IBM business analytics software to help better meet customer expectations for on-time, anywhere pizza deliveries in 30 minutes or less -- with food ordering capabilities now available through a new iPhone application.

Analytics has given Papa Gino's increased visibility into the performance of its online customer loyalty campaign, which has recently boasted a 50 percent increase in the total of an average order.

The company now has the ability to compare this and other performance data from all of its marketing and promotions activities with pizza sales and frequency of transactions -- and then measure them against the company's performance goals. As a result, Papa Gino's can tailor its mobile commerce campaign more effectively to help increase both the average ticket price as well as ordering frequency.

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IBM Business Analytics Helps Papa Gino's Grab a Bigger Slice of the Pie

New Challenges Emerging as Virtualization and Private Clouds Go Mainstream

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the findings of its 2011 Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey which examined how organizations plan to move business-critical initiatives to virtual and hybrid cloud computing environments. The survey highlighted topics including server, client, and storage virtualization, storage-as-a-service, and hybrid/private cloud technologies; and the results uncover disparities between expectations and reality as enterprises deploy these solutions. CEOs and CFOs are concerned with moving business-critical applications into virtual or cloud environments due to challenges including reliability, security, availability and performance. The survey is based on more than 3,700 respondents from 35 countries worldwide.

“Cloud computing represents a major shift within IT – changing from a traditional IT delivery to a service-provider model. Moving to the cloud is a complex evolution for many companies and it’s essential that IT and executives are aligned on initiatives,” said John Magee, vice president of virtualization and cloud solutions, Symantec. “Virtualization is an enabler for private and hybrid clouds and our survey shows that planning a seamless move is critical to achieving all the simplicity, affordability and efficiency that these environments have to offer.”

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New Challenges Emerging as Virtualization and Private Clouds Go Mainstream

Why Email's Days Are Numbered?

Facebooking at work may be a no-no, but more and more companies are encouraging their employees to chat, post and comment via enterprise social software, or ESS. These collaboration platforms – including Cisco Quad, Yammer, Jive, Traction Software, Socialtext, SocialCast, Salesforce.com Chatter, WizeHive and dozens of others – allow employees to discuss ideas, share documents, post news and ask questions with one another via posts, chats, microblogs and forums. Some of these applications, such as Cisco Quad, also include VoIP capabilities to enable real-time voice and video conferencing, as well as mobile apps to allow employees to collaborate while on the move.

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Why Email's Days Are Numbered?

HP Unveils Performance Suite for the Instant-On Enterprise

HP today unveiled a new suite of software to operationalize, measure and improve IT performance across the industry’s broadest set of technology investments and asset classes.

Tech executives require standardized, efficient tools that measure, benchmark and improve performance. Having a comprehensive view of this performance enables chief information officers (CIOs) to deliver an Instant-On Enterprise that embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with everything they need, instantly.

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HP Unveils Performance Suite for the Instant-On Enterprise

IBM Global Study Reveals Midmarket CIOs Look to Business Analytics to Drive Innovation and Growth

83 Percent Investing in Analytics to Address "Big Data" Challenge While Demand for Cloud Computing Increases 50 Percent Since 2009

A new global study of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) by IBM (NYSE: IBM) reveals that the top strategic technology investment over the next five years at outperforming midsize organizations is business analytics, with cloud computing emerging as the fastest growing technology area for CIOs.

Today, 83 percent of midmarket CIOs surveyed identified analytics, the ability to extract actionable insights from "Big Data" as their top-priority investment area, while there was a 50 percent increase in the number of midsize organizations that plan to invest in cloud computing, compared to IBM's 2009 midmarket CIO study.

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IBM Global Study Reveals Midmarket CIOs Look to Business Analytics to Drive Innovation and Growth

Mahindra Satyam Launches Mobile Couponing Platform

Mahindra Satyam, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, today announced the launch of its Mobile Couponing Platform. This ready-made solution allows retailers to deliver multiple, targeted marketing campaigns and gives customers access to coupon offers and information, on-the-go, via their mobile phones. The Mobile Couponing Platform enables retailers to better understand their customers, and to drive product purchases through tailored offers that can be redeemed against products in selected stores.

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Mahindra Satyam Launches Mobile Couponing Platform

Evolution of social media in retail

Many retailers are overlooking the huge potential of transforming their online stores into entertainment destinations by integrating social media, finds Verdict.

A new report* by the independent retail analyst has revealed that although e-commerce and social media are separate entities for retailers, those that recognise the potential of combining the two will reap the rewards.

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Evolution of social media in retail

HP Delivers Enterprise Agility with New Converged Infrastructure Solutions

HP today announced several industry-first Converged Infrastructure solutions that improve enterprise agility by simplifying deployment and speeding IT delivery.

HP Converged Infrastructure solutions are a key element in a client’s Instant-On Enterprise journey. These offerings break through IT sprawl and turn technology assets into interoperable, shared pools of resources with a common management platform. These new offerings include:

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HP Delivers Enterprise Agility with New Converged Infrastructure Solutions

The Open Data Center Alliance Reaches Major Milestone with Delivery of First Public Customer Requirements for Cloud Computing

Today, the Open Data Center Alliance^℠ has announced a major milestone in its mission to drive open, interoperable cloud solutions. In just seven months, the Alliance has quadrupled membership to more than 280 global IT leaders with collective annual IT spending of over $100 billion, formed workgroups, established alignment with key industry standards bodies and solutions providers and published initial cloud requirements. Today’s announcement marks the Alliance’s release of the first, user-driven requirements for the cloud based on member prioritization of the most pressing challenges facing IT. The release will shape member purchasing and outline requests to vendors and solutions providers to deliver leading cloud and next-generation data center solutions.


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The Open Data Center Alliance Reaches Major Milestone with Delivery of First Public Customer Requirements for Cloud Computing

Researchers Unveil Nanotechnology Circuits for Wireless Devices

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research scientists announced that they have achieved a milestone in creating a building block for the future of wireless devices. In a paper published yesterday in the magazine Science, IBM researchers announced the first integrated circuit fabricated from wafer-size graphene, and demonstrated a broadband frequency mixer operating at frequencies up to 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles/second).

Designed for wireless communications, this graphene-based analog integrated circuit could improve today's wireless devices and points to the potential for a new set of applications. At today's conventional frequencies, cell phone and transceiver signals could be improved, potentially allowing phones to work where they can't today while, at much higher frequencies, military and medical personnel could see concealed weapons or conduct medical imaging without the same radiation dangers of X-rays.

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Researchers Unveil Nanotechnology Circuits for Wireless Devices

Quadrant 4 Systems Launches Cloud Computing Services to Global Customers and Multiple Verticals

Quadrant 4 Systems Corp. (OTCQB: QFOR), a leading IT consulting company ("Quadrant 4"), today announced the launch of a set of new initiatives for Cloud Computing, Data Management and Managed Services for the financial, health care, and retail verticals. These new initiatives will provide Quadrant 4's global customers with a cost-effective model for securing, transporting and distribution of data and streamlining applications within a Web-hosted environment.

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Quadrant 4 Systems Launches Cloud Computing Services to Global Customers and Multiple Verticals

Juniper Networks Sets New Standard for Online Support

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that its Global Customer Support website, the Customer Support Center (CSC) has been recognized for a sixth consecutive year by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) as one of the Ten Best Web Support Sites of 2011, a prestigious award showcasing excellence in online service and support. Juniper Networks was named to the ASP's Web Support Hall of Fame in 2009, which honors sites that have been named among the "Ten Best" for at least four years.

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Juniper Networks Sets New Standard for Online Support

Riverbed Expands Cloud Storage Gateway Product Family with New Appliance Models

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced the introduction of three new Riverbed® Whitewater™ cloud storage gateway models designed to optimize data protection. Whitewater will now allow a wider range of organizations, including small and medium businesses (SMBs), to take advantage of the benefits of cloud data protection. The new Whitewater models 510 and 710 are purpose-built for SMBs, while the Whitewater model 2010 is designed for the mid-sized enterprise and targeted use cases in the large enterprise. With the release of the new models, Whitewater cloud storage gateways can now better meet the data protection needs of organizations across a wider range of sizes and industries, to reduce operational burdens, costs and complexity when using public cloud storage for data protection. In addition to hardware-based cloud storage gateway appliances, Riverbed also offers a virtual version of its cloud storage gateway for data protection.


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Riverbed Expands Cloud Storage Gateway Product Family with New Appliance Models

Cisco Introduces Superior Network Capacity and a Simpler Way to Build Next-Generation Internet for Zettabyte Era

Cisco is continuing its tradition of innovation by announcing a simpler way for service providers to architect the next-generation Internet to be more visual, mobile and virtual. Cisco today announced major advancements to its Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, which will set new industry benchmarks and dramatically increase capabilities at the edge of the next-generation Internet and transform the broadband communication and entertainment industries.

New capabilities, performance gains and significant cost savings stem from Cisco's latest innovation, nV technology (Network Virtualization), which will be deployed first on the Cisco ASR 9000 system, then made available on other Cisco platforms in the future as networks continue to evolve.

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Cisco Introduces Superior Network Capacity and a Simpler Way to Build Next-Generation Internet for Zettabyte Era

All-In-One Hub for the Living Room

Today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) Microsoft announced new game titles from blockbuster franchises like Halo and Gears of War, and unveiled a flood of new Kinect games and entertainment experiences.

The company also introduced voice search with Bing on Xbox and Kinect that will enable people to use their voice to tell their Xbox what entertainment content they are looking for, which will give them faster access to the ever-expanding universe of entertainment available right in their living room.

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All-In-One Hub for the Living Room

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition

In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit. Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number 1 cause of startup failure. However in all these articles, I have not seen any discussion about what I believe is the second biggest cause of startup failure: the cost of acquiring customers turns out to be higher than expected, and exceeds the ability to monetize those customers.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition

How the Apple iCloud compares to Google's cloud

Apple and Google now dominate the world's smartphone and mobile device markets and both are now pushing quickly into the cloud. While Apple this week finally acknowledged the cloud as the future of computing -- and will finally allow iPads and iPhones to be set up and backed up without being tethered to a computer running iTunes -- many Google fans accurately note that Apple's iCloud doesn't bring a lot of new features to the table.

The truth is that Apple seems a little late in endorsing the cloud as the new center of our digital world. After all, cloud computing has played a growing role in the tech industry for years.

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How the Apple iCloud compares to Google's cloud

Gartner Says India Printer Copier and Multifunctional Product Market Declined 2.5 Percent In The First Quarter Of 2011

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 6,65,172 units in the first quarter of 2011, a 2.5 percent decline compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.

“The revision in IT budgets towards the end of the fiscal year 2010 led to controlled purchasing of print devices and IT hardware spending,” said Amrita Choudhury research analyst at Gartner. “However, the future outlook is positive. Purchasing will beef up in the coming months as economic activities will resume momentum.”

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Gartner Says India Printer Copier and Multifunctional Product Market Declined 2.5 Percent In The First Quarter Of 2011

Fake Anti-Virus Imitates Microsoft Update, Warns Sophos

IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, is warning Windows users about the latest fake anti-virus attack, which tricks users into installing malicious software, by posing as a Microsoft security update.

Affected users will see an almost exact replica of the real Microsoft update page - the only difference being that the bogus page appears while surfing with Firefox, whereas the genuine Microsoft update site requires Internet Explorer.

Sophos has found that fake anti-virus attacks have become more sophisticated and professional in their appearance, convincing more innocent computer users into making bad decisions. The use of high quality graphics and professional interfaces means that there is a risk that more users are likely to fall for the scams.

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Fake Anti-Virus Imitates Microsoft Update, Warns Sophos

A Cloud Evolved?

As any industry trend plows through the landscape, you can frequently spot key events where the discussion quickly evolves from one phase to the next.

I believe such an event happened today. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced their new
Capital Markets Community Platform -- essentially, a cloud service for financial traders.

Yes, EMC and VMware were prominently mentioned in the announcement. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

More interesting is that it adds additional (and highly visible) evidence that external cloud services will compete on being better - and not necessarily just cheaper - than in-house alternatives.

With this announcement, I believe the general perception of external cloud services is changing -- fast.

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A Cloud Evolved?

PetroChina Extracts Maximum Value from Big Data Using EMC Isilon

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that PetroChina, the publicly-traded arm of China National Petroleum Corporation has deployed EMC® Isilon®scale-out NAS to power the Northwest branch of its Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (PetroChina NWGI). Using Isilon's X-Series, powered by the OneFS® operating system, PetroChina NWGI has consolidated a range of oil and gas exploration, acquisition and distribution applications on a single, shared storage resource, simplifying big data management for its mission-critical operations. With Isilon, PetroChina NWGI can scale performance and capacity linearly or independently as business needs change, ensuring maximum flexibility in meeting the massive scale and throughput demands of its big data IT infrastructure.

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PetroChina Extracts Maximum Value from Big Data Using EMC Isilon

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Provides the Technology Foundation for Italian Dnshosting.it Cloud Offerings

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Dnshosting.it, the advanced Internet solutions developer located in Italy, has migrated its Cloud Server offering from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in order to remain competitive in the Italian market and gain the advantages of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology.

Dnshosting.it offers domain registration, shared hosting, dedicated servers and services. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as its foundation, the company has now also added cloud server and cloud datacenter services to its offerings, establishing the company as a leader in the Italian cloud server market. In particular, its Cloud Server offering delivers more flexibility, enabling the activation of 256MB RAM and 10GB disk instance and a further increase of up to 16GB RAM and 1024GB disk on-demand in just a few minutes.


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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Provides the Technology Foundation for Italian Dnshosting.it Cloud Offerings

Iomega Announces WIRED Magazine's "Editor's Pick" of The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition

Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, today announced that the Iomega® Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition has been awarded the "Editor's Pick" by WIRED magazine in a side-by-side comparison of the major consumer network hard drives.

In a feature titled "Local Clouds" in the June issue of WIRED magazine, the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition was selected as "Editor's Pick" over competing network storage products from Buffalo, Seagate and Western Digital.

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Iomega Announces WIRED Magazine's "Editor's Pick" of The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition

HP Announces HP TouchPad Availability for United States, Europe and Canada

HP today announced that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the United States on July 1.

HP's first webOS tablet will be available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany a few days later and in Canada in mid-July, with availability scheduled to follow later this year in Italy and Spain, as well as in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.

"What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS," said Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP. "The platform's unmatched features and flexibility will continue to differentiate HP products from the rest of the market for both personal and professional use. This is only the beginning of what HP's scale can do with webOS."

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HP Announces HP TouchPad Availability for United States, Europe and Canada

Mahindra Satyam inaugurates Smart Grid Customer Demonstration Center

Mahindra Satyam, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, today announced the expansion of Utility Solutions into Smart Grid by inaugurating a Smart Grid Customer Demonstration Center (CDC) at the 120-acre Mahindra Satyam Technology Center campus in Hyderabad. The CDC will help customers understand the next generation technology in real-time and evaluate various technologies underlying the smart grid ecosystem.

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Mahindra Satyam inaugurates Smart Grid Customer Demonstration Center

MindTree Unveils Bluetooth® Solutions Suite for In-car Health Applications

MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services company and a leading provider of licensable Bluetooth intellectual property (IP), today unveiled a portfolio of its EtherMindTM Bluetooth 4.0 dual-mode (includes both Classic and Low Energy) solutions. It offers the recently adopted Health Thermometer Bluetooth Low Energy Profile, the Heart Rate Monitor Low Energy (as Prototype) as well as the classic Bluetooth Health Device Profile.

EtherMind is an extension to the trend of installing car infotainment units today’s age that sport rich features like large displays and enhanced connectivity; it also rides on the fact that people are spending more time in their cars. It provides the added convenience of monitoring personal health using the car head unit to wirelessly connect to a wide range of consumer medical devices that use Bluetooth technology. These include heart rate monitors, thermometers, glucose meters and pulse oximeters. In addition to pre-existing and mature solutions for medical applications such as the fully-qualified classic Bluetooth Health Device Profile and a Continua certified IEEE 11073 stack, MindTree’s Bluetooth Low Energy profiles to offer consumers a simple and powerful way to monitor their health in a car.

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MindTree Unveils Bluetooth® Solutions Suite for In-car Health Applications

IBM Announces Technologies for High Performance Computing Cloud

IBM today announced new high performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings to help clients tackle advanced scientific and technical computing workloads like analytics, simulations for product development, climate research and life sciences.

Today, many organizations operate with separate pools of high performance computing systems. The HPC cloud offerings from IBM will allow clients to link computing resources across their organizations into a single, high performance, private cloud while providing system administrators the flexibility to set priorities based on business or technical needs.

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IBM Announces Technologies for High Performance Computing Cloud

IBM Expands Deeper into India with New Office in Coimbatore

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of a new branch office in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu as part of the company's continued geographic expansion initiative to increase its presence in key growth markets and support its global growth strategy.

Today IBM is one of the top technology companies operating in India and the largest IT services provider in the domestic market. The new office opening is part of IBM's ongoing investment in the country covering the creation of new facilities, offices, training and recruitment, sales, marketing and corporate citizenship. IBM is currently focused on increasing its presence in smaller cities across India to meet the growing needs of clients and partners and to establish a footprint in over 40 cities across the country by 2013.

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IBM Expands Deeper into India with New Office in Coimbatore

Symantec Positioned as a Visionary in the Mobile Device Management Software Magic Quadrant

Symantec Corp. today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Visionary Quadrant of the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management (MDM) Software report¹.

According to the Gartner report, enterprise MDM software helps enterprises manage the transition to a more complex, mobile computing and communications environment by supporting security, service, software and inventory management across the exploding number of corporate and personal owned mobile smartphones and tablets.

Symantec Mobile Management, the solution evaluated as part of the Gartner report, gives organizations dealing with these changing environments the necessary tools to increase IT efficiency and improve end-user productivity.

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Symantec Positioned as a Visionary in the Mobile Device Management Software Magic Quadrant

Facebook Changes Privacy Settings for Millions of Users with Facial Recognition, Sophos Reports

IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, encouraging Facebook users to review their privacy settings, after reports that the site has enabled facial recognition for photo tags for many users.

Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to encourage users to tag each other in photographs, but the functionality was initially only available in North America and was disabled elsewhere.

In the last few days, Facebook users around the world have reported that the option has been enabled without any notice by the website. To the annoyance of many Facebook users, the site provides no way for users to pre-approve photos they are tagged in. Instead users must untag themselves manually after they have been tagged.

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Facebook Changes Privacy Settings for Millions of Users with Facial Recognition, Sophos Reports

Indiana University Teams with Citrix to Deliver "Personal Cloud" to 100,000+ Students, Faculty and Staff

Citrix Systems and Indiana University announced today that IU has chosen Citrix as a preferred partner in helping the university deliver and support virtual technologies for its approximately 100,000+ students, faculty, and staff. The partnership effectively creates a "Personal Cloud" where users can access applications and data as an on-demand service -- anytime, anywhere, and on any PC, Mac, tablet or smart phone.

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Indiana University Teams with Citrix to Deliver "Personal Cloud" to 100,000+ Students, Faculty and Staff

Gartner Says PC Unit Growth in 2011 will Slow to 9.3 Percent as Consumers in Mature Markets Remain Cautious

Worldwide PC unit growth is projected to be slightly weaker in 2011 than the previous projection, according to Gartner, Inc.'s latest forecast. PC shipments are expected to grow 9.3 percent in 2011, reaching 385 million units. This is slightly lower than Gartner's previous projection of 10.5 percent growth for this year.

Throughout much of the last decade, PC unit growth was powered by consumers. With consumers from mature markets maintaining a tight rein on their spending in response to continuing economic uncertainty, and a lack of compelling reasons for consumers in general to replace their PCs, PC unit growth has slowed and must once again rely on businesses to drive it.

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Gartner Says PC Unit Growth in 2011 will Slow to 9.3 Percent as Consumers in Mature Markets Remain Cautious

Fujitsu Deploys Six-Country Global Cloud Platform

Fujitsu today announced it has begun to offer its highly reliable public cloud service in Australia, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany based on its Global Cloud Platform strategy announced in 2010.

In this way, local customers in regions throughout the world and global corporations with local operations are able to take advantage of On-Demand Virtual System Service or its equivalent via access to datacenters in each region.

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Fujitsu Deploys Six-Country Global Cloud Platform

India Public Cloud Computing To Grow At 53 Per Cent CAGR

The Public Cloud Computing market in India is estimated to touch Rs. 2,434 crore in 2014 after growing at a CAGR of 53% between 2010-2014 according to market intelligence and advisory firm CyberMedia Research’s India Cloud Computing Market Review 2011, May 2011 edition.

According to Kamal Vohra, Lead Analyst, India Software and IT Services Research, CyberMedia Research, “Cloud computing is witnessing widespread interest from the vendor-service provider-channel community on the one hand and business leaders and CIOs on the other. This is fuelled by the strong belief that cloud computing will allow a large number of SMB enterprises to adopt the same enterprise class software and technology solutions, which were earlier the exclusive preserve of large enterprises. This, in turn is expected to allow the market for software solutions to open up as large, upfront capital investments in IT infrastructure can be converted into smaller, manageable 'pay-per-use' annuity payments."

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India Public Cloud Computing To Grow At 53 Per Cent CAGR

gloStream: Reinventing Medical Record-Keeping

Storing paper-based medical records and managing complex compliance regulations are cumbersome tasks that consume large amounts of time medical professionals would rather spend treating patients.

Recognizing an opportunity with massive global implications, BizSpark One startup gloStream is developing software that has the potential to transform the medical industry. By embedding the familiar Microsoft Office interface into its software, gloStream is making it easier for doctors and clinics to store medical records electronically while ensuring regulatory compliance.

“The medical profession is, in many ways, an information business,” says Mike Sappington, CEO of gloStream. “The largest — and arguably the most important — industry in the U.S. is still mired in paper-based processes.”

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gloStream: Reinventing Medical Record-Keeping

Hot on the Trail of the Rustock Botnet

In March, we announced that Microsoft had, with the help of industry partners and law enforcement, taken down the notorious spamming botnet, Rustock.

Since that time, I’m happy to report that the botnet has stayed dead. Our technical countermeasures have worked effectively to prevent the bot’s self-defense mechanisms from reanimating it. Moreover, in the months since the takedown, we’ve seen the number of infected IP addresses (a loose proxy for the number of infected computers) decline as more and more people update their software or get malware removed from their PCs.

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Hot on the Trail of the Rustock Botnet

Gartner Says Security Software Market Grew 12 Percent in 2010

Worldwide security software revenue totaled $16.5 billion in 2010, a 12 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $14.7 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The 2010 results show that overall vendor revenue demonstrated a rebound in growth after a sharp fall in performance in 2009 due to the slow economy and tight IT budgets.

"Products within the security market are undergoing rapid evolution, in terms of both new delivery models — with security as a service showing increasing popularity — and new technologies being introduced, often by startup companies," said Ruggero Contu, principal research analyst at Gartner. "Key vendors continued to expand their product portfolios, buying companies where appropriate and expanding their reach into emerging markets."

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Gartner Says Security Software Market Grew 12 Percent in 2010

Intel Labs' Collaborative Efforts Speed Technological Breakthroughs, Shape Future of Computing

Intel Labs opened its doors to the media, academia, partners and customers today at the 9th annual Research at Intel event, where Justin Rattner, Intel Corporation chief technology officer, unveiled more than 35 innovative research projects underway that will help transform the future of technology.

Many of these projects are the result of joint research among different divisions of Intel and its academic and industry partners. Additionally, Rattner announced the latest Intel Science Technology Center (ISTC), a new collaborative framework for security research between Intel and several leading universities.

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Intel Labs' Collaborative Efforts Speed Technological Breakthroughs, Shape Future of Computing

SaaS - More than a Buzzword for Indian SMBs

A recent research shows that Indian SMBs have increased their investment in implementing cloud based enterprise solutions by 43% in 2011. The increase in spend on enterprise applications was to be expected with the upturn in economy. However with lessons learnt the hard way over the past few years, they are careful to not go for just any solution. There are reasons beyond the cool sounding terminology for SMBs to prefer cloud over on-premises model.

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SaaS - More than a Buzzword for Indian SMBs

HP Extends Cloud Leadership with New Hybrid Delivery Solutions

HP today extended its Hybrid Delivery solutions portfolio so enterprises can improve their agility and quickly respond to changing customer and citizen needs.

Hybrid delivery environments, which combine traditional IT infrastructures with private and public clouds, enable enterprise agility by using flexible delivery models to best meet changing market demands.

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HP Extends Cloud Leadership with New Hybrid Delivery Solutions

IBM Research Teams With Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to Make Power Grids Smarter

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur to develop systems that will help power grids become more efficient and resilient. The systems will analyze power grid data for predictive insights. They will also improve grids to enhance productivity and reduce inefficiencies in power consumption.

IBM Research – India will work with these two premiere institutes to develop open system designs that can boost the potential of Phasor Measurement Units (PMU), a new type of sensor on power grids. The IBM researchers and the students will develop network architectures to reliably collect data from PMUs as well as analytics tools that process the collected data to provide valuable information to the grid operators.

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IBM Research Teams With Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to Make Power Grids Smarter

IBM Microprocessors to Power the New Wii U System from Nintendo

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U™ system from Nintendo. Unveiled today at the E3 trade show, Nintendo plans for its new console to hit store shelves in 2012.

The all-new, Power-based microprocessor will pack some of IBM's most advanced technology into an energy-saving silicon package that will power Nintendo's brand new entertainment experience for consumers worldwide. IBM's unique embedded DRAM, for example, is capable of feeding the multi-core processor large chunks of data to make for a smooth entertainment experience.

IBM plans to produce millions of chips for Nintendo featuring IBM Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology at 45 nanometers (45 billionths of a meter). The custom-designed chips will be made at IBM's state-of-the-art 300mm semiconductor development and manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, N.Y.

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IBM Microprocessors to Power the New Wii U System from Nintendo

Tata Communications Selects Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router to Enable New Carrier Ethernet Services Throughout India

Cisco announced today that Tata Communications will deploy the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) for its next-generation Ethernet network service throughout India.

Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world's population, by 2015. In the fifth annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2010-2015) released last week, the company also said the total amount of global Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year. The projected increase of Internet traffic between 2014 and 2015 alone is 200 exabytes, which is greater than the total amount of Internet Protocol traffic generated globally in 2010. On the verge of reaching 1 zettabyte, which is equal to a sextillion bytes, or a trillion gigabytes by 2015, global IP traffic growth is driven by four primary factors, according to Cisco: an increasing number of devices; more Internet users; faster broadband speed; and more video.

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Tata Communications Selects Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router to Enable New Carrier Ethernet Services Throughout India

Xbox 360 World Premieres Biggest Blockbuster Games and Entertainment

Today, on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft Corp. premiered a spectacular lineup of new games, demonstrating that Xbox 360 continues to deliver the biggest hits and blockbuster experiences — bar none. This year, Microsoft showcased a host of new groundbreaking exclusive titles on Xbox 360, including “Gears of War 3,” “Forza Motorsport 4” and the world premiere trailer for “Halo 4.” In addition, Microsoft debuted the next installment of the famed “Fable” franchise with “Fable: The Journey,” a game imagined from the ground up for Kinect on Xbox 360 by famed developer Peter Molyneux. Fans were also treated to a preview of the Kinect-powered historical epic, “Ryse,” created by acclaimed developer Crytek GmbH. Finally, Microsoft revealed that this winter, “Minecraft,” the independent PC game phenomenon, is making its console debut exclusively on Xbox 360.

In 2010, the controller-free magic and instant fun of Kinect for Xbox 360 captivated consumers all over the world, making it the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history. This year, millions of Kinect owners will use their entire body to experience the world’s most iconic entertainment brands through “Kinect: Disneyland Adventures,” “Kinect Star Wars” and “Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster.” Fans will also get their bodies in motion while playing the successors to the platform’s best-selling titles, “Dance Central 2” and “Kinect Sports: Season Two.”

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Xbox 360 World Premieres Biggest Blockbuster Games and Entertainment

Fujitsu Launches Global Cloud Platform Service Powered by Microsoft Windows Azure

Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. today announced that the first release of its Global Cloud Platform service powered by Windows Azure, running in Fujitsu’s datacenter in Japan, will be launched in August 2011. The launch of this service is the result of the global strategic partnership between Fujitsu and Microsoft announced in July 2010. The partnership allows Fujitsu to work alongside Microsoft providing services to enable, deliver and manage solutions built on Windows Azure. As of April 21, 2011, Fujitsu has been offering the service in Japan on a trial basis to 20 companies. This launch marks the first official production release of the Windows Azure platform appliance by Fujitsu. By using FGCP/A5, customers will be able to quickly build elastically scalable applications using familiar Windows Azure platform technologies, streamline their information communications technology (ICT) operations management to accelerate business expansion, and enhance their competitive edge in the global market.

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Fujitsu Launches Global Cloud Platform Service Powered by Microsoft Windows Azure

IBM Introduces New Offerings to Accelerate Global Software Development

At the INNOVATE 2011 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software that helps organizations collaborate more efficiently throughout the entire software and systems development process. The new software allows developer teams to quickly access resources and work across global boundaries through an open, collaborative development environment.

According to the IBM CEO Study, a survey of more than 1,500 Chief Executive Officers from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide, two-thirds of global organizations manage software development teams working in multiple locations. Additionally, the study found there is a growing unpredictability in getting software through development and into its full application within an organization. More than 62% of development projects fail to meet the intended schedule and 30% of project costs are due to rework and poor execution of requirements.

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Mac OS X Lion With 250 New Features Available in July From Mac App Store

Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99. Some of the amazing features in Lion include: new Multi-Touch® gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software, built right into the OS; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app.

“The Mac has outpaced the PC industry every quarter for five years running and with OS X Lion we plan to keep extending our lead,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The best version of OS X yet, Lion is packed with innovative features such as new Multi-Touch gestures, system-wide support for full screen apps, and Mission Control for instantly accessing everything running on your Mac.”

New Multi-Touch gestures and fluid animations built into Lion let you interact directly with content on the screen for a more intuitive way to use your Mac. New gestures include momentum scrolling, tapping or pinching your fingers to zoom in on a web page or image, and swiping left or right to turn a page or switch between full screen apps. All Mac notebooks ship with Multi-Touch trackpads and desktop Macs can use Apple’s Magic Trackpad.

Full screen apps take advantage of the entire display and are perfect for reading email, surfing the web or browsing photos, especially on a MacBook Air® or MacBook® Pro. With a single click your app fills the display and you can swipe from one window to another, between full screen apps, or back to your Desktop, Dashboard or Spaces® without ever leaving full screen. iWork® and iLife® apps, as well as Safari®, iTunes®, Mail, FaceTime® and others, all take advantage of Lion’s system-wide support for full screen apps.

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New Version of iOS Includes Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Twitter Integration Among 200 New Features

Apple® today previewed iOS 5, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, and released a beta version to iOS Developer Program members. The iOS 5 beta release includes over 200 new features that will be available to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users this fall. New iOS 5 features include: Notification Center, an innovative way to easily view and manage notifications in one place without interruption; iMessage, a new messaging service that lets you easily send text messages, photos and videos between all iOS devices; and Newsstand, a new way to purchase and organize your newspaper and magazine subscriptions. With the new PC Free feature, iOS 5 users can activate and set up their iOS device right out of the box and get software updates over the air with no computer required.

“iOS 5 has some great new features, such as Notification Center, iMessage and Newsstand and we can’t wait to see what our developers do with its 1,500 new APIs,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Perhaps iOS 5’s paramount feature is that it’s built to seamlessly work with iCloud in the Post PC revolution that Apple is leading.”

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New Version of iOS Includes Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Twitter Integration Among 200 New Features

Apple Introduces iCloud

Apple® today introduced iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices. When anything changes on one of your devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated almost instantly.

“Today it is a real hassle and very frustrating to keep all your information and content up-to-date across all your devices,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iCloud keeps your important information and content up to date across all your devices. All of this happens automatically and wirelessly, and because it’s integrated into our apps you don’t even need to think about it—it all just works.”

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Apple Introduces iCloud