Nov
23

Peninsula School District Switches to OpenDNS Enterprise from Websense, Secures 4,000 Devices

School district serving 15 schools and thousands of students selects OpenDNS Enterprise to replace “extremely expensive” Websense solution and eliminate complicated device-level filtering.

Read about it here

Nov
09

Adobe Drops Flash for Phones, in Reversal

Adobe Systems Inc. said it plans to stop development of its Flash player software for mobile browsers, saying it will focus its efforts on HTML 5, another media presentation standard.

Oct
28

Maine Moves to Cloud-Based Internet Filtering for Public Schools, Libraries

This academic year, Maine became the first state to bring the majority of K-12 public schools onto the same cloud-based Internet filtering service, according to market research by provider OpenDNS.

The whole story here

Oct
20

E-Mail Fails to Deliver Taxpayers May Pay for Continued Delay

WASHINGTON, Oct 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) issued the following statement: Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin has for the second time formally cited the failure of the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to provide e-mail services for all city employees in an August 17, 2011 letter. Unlike her November 17, 2010 Notice of Deficiencies, which just cited the delays, this letter demands that CSC pay the city for maintaining two separate email systems through November 20, 2012.

read the full article here….

Oct
20

New Documents Show Google Cannot Meet Security Promises In Los Angeles Email System; Consumer Watchdog Asks Mayor To Fully Disclose Extent of Broken Promises

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — New documents obtained by Consumer Watchdog show that Google cannot meet the security requirements of the Los Angeles Police Department with its Google Apps for Government, a so-called cloud computing system, which was to have provided the City of Los Angeles with an email system for 30,000 employees.

read the full article here……

May
11

HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage

HP exec pulls no punches, while Cisco reviews benefits of its private cloud

By Jim Duffy, Network World
May 10, 2011 02:53 PM ET

LAS VEGAS — It’s not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that’s exactly what they did — and HP didn’t share the stage nicely. Click for story.

Apr
07

Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy,’ says Linux Foundation chief

Linux has already defeated Microsoft, Linux Foundation chief says

Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin.

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Apr
01

Open Letter to Novell Customers

On November 22, 2010, we announced that Novell and Attachmate Corporation entered into a definitive agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell. Since that time, we have received numerous inquiries from customers and partners interested in learning more about Attachmate’s plans for Novell’s product roadmaps after the acquisition is completed.

To address this topic, I have enclosed a PDF copy of a letter from Attachmate Chairman and CEO Jeff Hawn. This letter can be found on the Attachmate website.

Thank you for continued commitment to Novell.

 

Mar
18

Specialty Android apps for business users

InfoWorld Mobilize:

An Android smartphone can do a lot more than play games and surf the Web. InfoWorld presents the apps that serious Fandroids should know about..
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Mar
18

HP “beat the crap” out of Cisco, others….

Network World Daily News:

HP says it can “beat the crap” out of its networking competition in price-performance, a big selling point it employs in bids against Cisco. That’s the exact phrase HP CEO Leo Apotheker used in describing his company’s progress in networking to IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant

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