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IBM Building Business Resiliency in the Cloud

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

IBM is investing $300 million in constructing Business Resilience centers around the world to enable customers to access business continuity services from the cloud.

Source(s): IBM press release

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Salesforce Buys Software Maker InStranet

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Expanding beyond its CRM roots, SaaS leader Salesforce.com has announced the $31.5 million acquisition of InStranet, which specializes in call-center software.

Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Services

Microsoft Eases Virtualization Restrictions

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating the extra fees customers must pay to move server software from one physical host to another, as well as the restrictions on how frequently that can be done.

Source(s): InformationWeek, The Register

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Microsoft Blog Post, Now MIA, Reveals Date for Office 14 Alpha

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Is Microsoft looking for people to alpha-test Office 14, the next version of its Office productivity suite?

Source(s): Computerworld, ZDNet

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HP Unveils Ultraportable Computers

Monday, August 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hewlett-Packard has come out with three new small, light notebooks -- a ruggedized model and a tablet in the EliteBook line, and a bargain Compaq-branded model.

Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

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Lenovo Takes on MacBook Air (Again) With ThinkPad X301

Monday, August 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Six months after Lenovo unveiled the ThinkPad X300 laptop, its first challenge to Apple's MacBook Air, expect an ultraportable follow-up from the vendor: the ThinkPad X301.

Source(s): The Tech Herald, DailyTech

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Hardware & Software | Mobile

Microsoft Starts Windows 7 Blog

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft has launched a blog to keep the world abreast of progress on its next-gen Windows 7 operating system.

Source(s): Redmond Magazine, InformationWeek

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Sun Open Sources Java ME Tools

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Sun Microsystems has open-sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license.

Source(s): CNET, The Register

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Hardware & Software | Mobile

Google Readies Smartphone for Mid-September Release

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Rumors appear to be solidifying that Google's Android-based smartphone will hit market next month.

Source(s): Wired, VentureBeat

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Intel Launches Tiny Solid-State Drive

Thursday, August 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Intel has announced a small, light solid-state drive (SSD), as well as technology to enable Windows to take better advantage of flash memory.

Source(s): The Inquirer, CNET

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Lenovo Introduces "Mobile Workstation"

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Lenovo debuted the ThinkPad W700, a behemoth notebook to serve the needs of the "most data- and graphics-intensive users."

Source(s): Business Wire via MarketWatch

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Yahoo's Location-Based Platform Takes Flight

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a platform for location-based services that it says makes life easier for developers to create geo-aware applications.

Source(s): InformationWeek, The New York Times

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Dell Updates Latitude Laptop Line

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Dell has added the E series to its Latitude line of laptops, one of which put the computer maker head to head with Apple's MacBook Air.

Source(s): PC Magazine, Forbes

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Hardware & Software | Mobile

SAP's Business Objects Group Unveils New BI Tools

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Three weeks after upgrading two business-intelligence software offerings for the midmarket, SAP's Business Objects unit has unveiled a new tool that helps users jazz up their PowerPoint and PDF-based presentations with interactive Excel charts.

Source(s): InformationWeek, IT World

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Google Resolves Gmail Outage

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Gmail users were without their e-mail service for two hours on Monday thanks to a systemwide outage beginning around 2 p.m. PT.

Source(s): WebProNews

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HP Announces EliteBook Mobile Workstations

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hewlett-Packard has announced a trio of EliteBook laptops equipped with professional graphics capabilities.

Source(s): VNUnet, Laptop Logic

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Dorado Unveils Scalable Network Management Software

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Dorado Software has released systems and network management software that can scale for growing SMBs.

Source(s): Business Wire

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Virtual Iron Adds Power Management to Virtualization Software

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Virtual Iron Software has upgraded its namesake server virtualization software to include power management capabilities.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Mozilla Integrates Messaging Functionality in Firefox Add-On

Friday, August 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Mozilla has introduced a new extension for its Firefox browser that lets users read their e-mail, Twitter updates and RSS feeds in a single interface.

Source(s): PC Pro, Big Mouth Media

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HP, CDW Team to Sell to SMBs

Friday, August 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

SMBs that work with Hewlett-Packard's channel partners will soon be dealing with a new middleman: CDW.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Oracle Introduces Virtual Machine Templates

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Oracle has introduced a group of VM Templates, preconfigured software stacks ready for one-step deployment on Oracle VM virtual machines.

Source(s): InformationWeek, PR NewsWire via Marketwatch

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Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The latest edition of Microsoft's database software is aimed at improving data compression, scalability, and concurrent workload management.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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IBM Bringing Linux to SMBs

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

IBM is aligning itself with the leading names in Linux to expand open-source adoption among SMBs.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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AT&T Establishes Cloud Presence

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

AT&T has launched Synaptic Hosting, a new online managed computing and storage service.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Micron Preps Solid-State Drives

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Micron is getting ready to roll out two new solid-state drives (SSDs) aimed at the notebook and server markets.

Source(s): EETimes, CNET

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Dell Trying to Trademark Cloud Computing

Monday, August 4, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Dell wants to own the cloud, and has quietly advanced a trademarking application for the phrase "cloud computing" past the point where opponents can have their say.

Source(s): The Industry Standard, The Register

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IBM Announces New Data Center for Cloud Computing

Friday, August 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Intel, Yahoo and HP need to make more room in the cloud: IBM is building a $360 million cloud data center facility at its Research Triangle Park campus in North Carolina.

Source(s): Triangle Business Journal, The Register

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New Beta of VMware Fusion 2 Improves Mac-Windows Integration

Friday, August 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

VMware has released a second beta of its Fusion 2 virtualization software, which, like Parallels' Desktop for Mac, lets Mac users simultaneously run other operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

Source(s): Geek.com, InformationWeek

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Facebook Teams With Intel For Servers

Thursday, July 31, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Facebook has turned to Intel to help keep the ever-expanding social network stable and improve performance.

Source(s): Hexus.net

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IBM Readies Data Protection Software

Thursday, July 31, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

IBM is getting ready to roll out a suite of data protection software based on technology that came along with its buy FilesX earlier this year.

Source(s): CNN/Money, InternetNews

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