| IBM Survey: Wall Street Beefs Up IT
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Investor's Business Daily - Businesses tend to resist government regulations, but new rules bring new opportunities. Such is the case with the recently passed financial reform bill. |
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| Motorola tops despite lower sales
(Investor's Business Daily) |
Investor's Business Daily - The telecom equipment giant swung to a Q2 profit of 9 cents a share, beating by a penny, as gross margin rose to 37% from 31%. Revenue fell 1.5% to $5.4 bil, but topped projections. Sales of mobile devices fell 6%, and sales of home products, including set-top boxes, fell 13%. Enterprise mobile computing sales rose 10%. It sees Q3 EPS of 10-12 cents, the midpoint above views. Motorola slid 1% to 7.61. |
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| U.S. accuses Oracle of overbilling
(Investor's Business Daily) |
Investor's Business Daily - The Justice Dept. filed a civil suit against the enterprise software maker for allegedly overcharging the gov't on contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The agency says Oracle (NMS:ORCL) failed to offer the gov't the same discounts that it offered commercial customers. The claims were originally made by former Oracle exec Paul Frascella. Oracle fell 2.4% to 23.70. |
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| SAP Adding IGoogle-like Layer to Its Portal
(PC World) |
PC World - SAP is sprucing up its NetWeaver portal with an upcoming add-on, Enterprise Workspaces, which will provide an iGoogle-like way for users to work with content. |
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| Motorola 2nd-qtr results beat Street, shares rise
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 Reuters - Motorola Inc posted stronger-than-expected quarterly results on strength in its enterprise and network units, boosting its shares despite investors' frustration that its phone sales target wasn't raised.
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| IBM Acquires Storage Compression Company
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PC World - IBM on Thursday said it had agreed to acquire data compression technology company Storwize for an undisclosed sum. |
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| IBM to buy Storwize for undisclosed sum
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AP - IBM said Thursday it agreed to buy privately held data-compression company Storwize for an undisclosed sum. |
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| Dell, HP to Resell Oracle's Operating Systems
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PC World - Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. |
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| Why You Need to Monitor and Measure Your Brand on Social Media
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Mashable - Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's blog. |
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| IBM Invests in Infrastructure Sensing and Analysis Tech
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PC World - IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University. |
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| 'Jersey Shore' cast looks to bask in Miami sun
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Reuters - With fist pumps and perfect tans, "Jersey Shore" returns to TV on Thursday for a new season of shows that has audiences wondering if the cast that put some reality back into reality TV is still really real after its brush with Hollywood stardom. |
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| iPad’s no fun in the sun, lawsuit alleges
(Ben Patterson) |
Ben Patterson - It’s no secret that the iPad can wilt if it’s left out in the sun too long. Now a California lawsuit is accusing Apple of false advertising for claiming that "reading on the iPad is just like reading a book" — except for the part where you can read books outside, even under a blazing sky. |
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