At the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2011 event in Atlanta this week, Microsoft introduced its Cloud ERP solution with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, attempting to grasp a slice of the cloud pie. “Every one of our products will be engineered to deliver the full benefits of the cloud. Every one of the whole Dynamics set, for ...

Maps services are becoming more and more attractive to software developers. Microsoft is launching Streetside with Nokia’s Navteq, despite the controversy raised by Google in Germany especially and MapQuest has released a free Android app, increasing competition between several other players such as Ovi’s Maps v3.06, Microsoft Streets & Tips. IBM has had similar initiatives ...

On the occasion of the National Association of Broadcasters Show that started this week, JMR will launch, and offer a live demonstration of the latest produce from their collaboration with Fusion-io, a high performance and scalable tiered storage system in a compact architecture. This new high speed solution brings together Fusion’s ioMemory technology with JMR’s ...

China is known for its overpowering regime that cut many social media links between its citizens and Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users. Yet Facebook and Baidu may have treaded middle ground, reaching a compromise,  launching a new social networking site, an agreement that has not been yet confirmed by either Baidu or Facebook. It is ...

Apple is quite picky when it comes to allowing publications inside its subscription plan for the iPad, but starting today, Apple is adding Bloomberg Businessweek along with Elle, Maxim and Popular Science. The digital subscription is $2.99 and it allows users to read editions in portrait or landscape mode, search through a personal archive, resize ...

Isilon announced today the launch of the new generation of Isilon scale-out NAS hardware and software platforms, with innovative features such as enabling customers to choose from a range of drive configurations, including solid state drives (SSD) with either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or serial ATA (SATA) drives, and combine them with a large, globally ...

The Germans are strong-willed, and now have come to terms with Google’s Street View services. Google decided that, from today, they will cease the recording of street images in Germany, most likely due to privacy concerned raised in the last months, not only in Germany, but also in other parts of Western Europe and Israel. ...

Last week caught Cisco intensively promoting its TelePresence service, at a rather stiff price, placing its stake on seniority and professionalism. This is one of the steps Cisco took in the last period, to an uncertain direction, allowing competitors, such as HP, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper to take up the ball. But Cisco’s CEO John Chambers ...

Word of mouth is one of the most powerful tools of marketing, and Facebook surely knows it.  Facebook did some research on this matter and found out that each time a Facebook user purchases a ticket from TicketMaster, the associated Facebook friends spent an additional $5.30 on TicketMaster. E-commerce sites that use Facebook tools for ...

Five years ago IBM opened its global chain of Blue Cloud labs targeting enterprise clients, governments and universities and now meeting the needs of over 20 million end-user customers. Tomorrow, IBM  will announce the adding of another series of clients, including American Airlines, CARFAX, India First Life Insurance, Shriram Transport Finance Co., and 7-Eleven that ...