By: Chris Preimesberger The established software provider joins a growing number of companies competing in the private-social-network enterprise platform market with Clearvale Express. Enterprise-only unified messaging social networks have gained momentum in recent months, especially since the introduction of Salesforce.com’s Chatter, which has brought some new gravitas to the space. Yammer also has had a growing [...]
By: Nicholas Kolakowski More screens means greater efficiency. That’s the theory behind installing two of them side-by-side on your desk at work, or a Wall Street maven’s bank of flat screens in their workspace. Laptops are starting to get in on it, too, whether in the form of an upcoming Acer laptop with dual touch screens, or [...]
By: Don Reisinger News Analysis: The Motorola Xoom is overpriced if the rumored retail price of $800 is true. If Motorola wants to carve out a generous share of the tablet market, the Xoom must be priced lower to take on Apple’s iPad. Some leaked promotional images from Best Buy of the upcoming and highly anticipated [...]
By Clint Boulton on 2011-02-06 The start of a new year evokes a certain measure of prognostication, and we often turn to research analysts who step back and take stock of the coming trends. Forrester Research has done just that in its “2011 Mobile Trends” report, released Jan. 24. The report covers a wide range of [...]
By: Clint Boulton AT&T said Feb. 3 it would begin selling the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone March 6 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, hewing to the contract and pricing schemes of high-end smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. AT&T will allow customers to order the Atrix 4G in a pre-sale starting Feb. 13, or three [...]
By: Chris Preimesberger Time Warner Cable said Feb. 1 that it plans to go into the data center operations business by buying NaviSite for $230 million. The deal is designed to enable Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable television operator (behind Comcast) in the United States, to diversify into data center service provisioning that will include various cloudservices, such [...]