CA Expands Cloud Services with $350M Nimsoft Purchase IT software behemoth CA has acquired its fourth company, Nimsoft, as it moves to provide its emerging enterprise customers and managed-service providers with cloud-computing support.
Marketplace for Google Apps Targets Microsoft Office With its mind in the clouds and an eye on rival Microsoft, Google has launched an online application store for third-party programs that can be integrated with its online Google Apps office suite.
Patches Highlight Problems in Maintaining Older Software Microsoft has released two bulletins to fix eight bugs in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both are rated important, but analysts said many of the vulnerabilities could potentially be more severe.
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iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format Along with accepting advance orders for its iPad, Apple has revealed a details about how e-books will be handled. The iPad will read the contents of pages and use the open EPUB format.
HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet.
Will Cisco's Super Fast CRS-3 Router Be a Game Changer? Cisco says its CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is the foundation of the next-generation Internet that will pave the way for rapid growth of video transmissions, mobile devices, and new services.
