$5 Cortex-A8 SoC aims to take on ARM9 in the embedded market
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By Linux for Devices - RSS Feeds. Under Uncategorized.
Texas Instruments (TI) announced a low power (7mW standby) Cortex-A8-based system on chip (SoC) intended to supplant ARM9 processors in cost-sensitive devices. Priced as little as $5 in volume, the Sitara AM335x SoC is available in six models, most of...
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iPads, No Android Tablets Seen in U.S. Schools
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
Apple's iPad is proving popular in educational markets as a supplementary slate to desktop computers, according to Piper Jaffray. Android tablets, not so much. - Numerous case
studies and anecdotal evidence tell the tale of Apple's iPad as a boon f...
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Internet Giants Spook Makers of Social News Readers Just in Time for Halloween
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By Josette Rigsby. Under Enterprise 2.0, google, social business, Social Media.
This might be an especially scary Halloween for creators of news and social readers such as Flipboard and Pulse. In the next month, they are going to have to battle two giants. Good luck with that.
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Microsoft Kinect for Commercial Apps Arriving Early 2012
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
Microsoft is developing a Kinect for Windows commercial program for early 2012, according to the company. - Microsoft will launch a Kinect for Windows commercial
program early in 2012, further expanding the hands-free controller beyond the
gaming ...
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The 2011 SMB Market: Mirroring Enterprise Adoption Trends
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By Chelsi Nakano. Under Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Collaboration, social business.
Once upon a time, SMB customers ran their businesses on little more than the IT equivalent of duct tape and bailing wire. Today, however, they are more likely to lightweight mirror larger enterprises in software adoption trends. (Tech marketers, y...
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ATandT Offers Tiered Data Plans for 4G LTE Network
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
The DataPlus plan provides 200 MB of data for $15 per month; DataPro provides 2 GB of data for $25 per month. - AT amp;T announced that its customers can choose from two tiered data plans on the companys 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network...
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Pentaho’s Business Intelligence Suite Has New Name, Bag of Big Data Tricks
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By Josette Rigsby. Under big data, business intelligence, Document Management, Enterprise CMS, Information Management, open source, oss.
Pentaho, a provider of an open-source business intelligence (BI) platform, has announced its latest release. Like the rest of the information management world, the company is squarely focused on supporting — yes, you guessed it — bi...
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Amazon Kindle Fire Poised to Reshape Tablet Market: 10 Reasons Why
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
With the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire only a few weeks away, just about everyone is speculating on how it might affect the tablet business. For its part, Amazon believes that it should be able to secure a sizable portion of the tablet space with it...
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Social Media Opens Corporate Networks to World of Woes
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
In a new study, 63 percent of respondents say that employees use of social media puts their organizations security at risk. But only 29 percent state they have the necessary security controls in-place to mitigate or reduce the risks such as sluggish ne...
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Linux Foundation Launches OpenMAMA Project
Posted On 31 Oct 2011 By eWeek - RSS Feed. Under Uncategorized.
Several financial services firms are teaming up to launch the OpenMAMA project to deliver a new open-source messaging API, according to the Linux Foundation. - The Linux Foundation has announced that several leaders in the financial services industr...
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