RIM revealed plans nearly a year ago for a cloud-based service to integrate Microsoft’s Office 365 service with BlackBerry mobile devices. In October, RIM unveiled more specific details, and launched a beta program for the new service. Now, BlackBerry Cloud Services are finally available to the general public.
The BlackBerry Cloud Service is hosted by RIM, and extends the capabilities of BlackBerry smartphones by integrating the Microsoft Office 365 backend. BlackBerry devices using the service can connect with Microsoft Exchange Online data, such as email, calendar, and contacts.
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February 5, 2012 at 6:14 am T-Mobile may be a distant fourth in the wireless carrier race, but it’s scrappy. Bouncing back after its proposed acquisition by AT&T crumbled, T-Mobile is aggressively courting small business customers with a variety of services.
For starters, T-Mobile is the first of the wireless providers to start offering the Square credit card reader in its stores. The reader can be acquired for free directly from Square, but T-Mobile is helping small business customers expand their payment options and get paid faster by giving customers even easier access to it.
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February 5, 2012 at 12:13 am Amazon hit a home run with the Kindle Fire. It has the combined benefits of being a product of Amazon, being a Kindle, and being an Android-ish tablet. Amazon has positioned the device as a consumer-oriented gadget – a sort of gateway to all things Amazon. But, its Android roots also give it the functionality and flexibility to get some real work done as well.
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February 4, 2012 at 12:15 pm The Facebook Timeline is coming whether you like it or not. I have been using it on my personal Facebook profile since it was offered as an option, and I like it. But, with the mandatory switch to the Timeline coming imminently for all Facebook users, a survey from Sodahead.com finds an overwhelming majority are opposed to the new layout.
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February 4, 2012 at 6:13 am While I was visiting Juniper in early December, I got a chance to sit down with the QFabric folks to discuss some of issues with QFabric and what I saw as a proprietary—with all the badness that word implies—product set in search of a reason. While QFabric is proprietary because of how the components are interconnected, I came away with the impression that the overall design and capacity looks extremely powerful. I think the upsides of the QFabric product set far outweigh the downsides. Give a month’s time between visiting Juniper and now, I’d say that all my ballyhoo about being proprietary was a non-issue. My bad.
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February 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm News that Cisco Systems may release proprietary networking products implementing software-defined networking (SDN) technology, but not necessarily based on the emerging OpenFlow protocol, has executives at rival HP complaining about another Cisco vendor lock-in play. At a news event at HP Thursday, at which the company announced OpenFlow capability available for 16 HP networking product lines, executives were asked to comment on a news report from the Cisco Live event going on this week in London.
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February 3, 2012 at 12:15 pm As big data stores continue to grow and require additional management, enterprises are faced with the task of managing their explosive data growth while also trying to find the best way to analyze that data. According to the recent InformationWeek “Database Discontent” report, a top item on IT departments’ 2012 to-do list is handling big data in a way that allows for change over time.
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February 3, 2012 at 6:18 am CommVault Systems has enhanced version 9 of its Simpana data management software, which it first announced in October 2010. Major new features in the software include OnePass, which will back up server data, archive it, and report on it simultaneously. The company said the process could take less than half the time of separate processes.
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February 3, 2012 at 12:13 am Google started with one nemesis and a simple mantra. It set out to knock Microsoft off its pedestal, and to “do no evil”. Google has grown into the same type of tech giant it set out to destroy, though, and changes in its privacy policies and practices are giving Microsoft an opportunity to turn the tables with a new ad campaign.
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Microsoft Turns the Tables on Google with Ad Campaign
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February 2, 2012 at 6:13 pm The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee recently formed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the not-for-profit open standards consortium, along with several IT vendors and consumer groups, will be good for facilitating cloud portability, industry observers say. The goal of TOSCA is to enable deploying cloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining application requirements for security, governance and compliance.
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February 2, 2012 at 12:20 pm 