IBM Client for Smart Work launched in USA
IBM and Canonical have together launched their IBM Client for Smart Work solution in the US market.
It was already being offered in South Africa.
The two companies said that the demand for this product was strong in USA so they decided to launch it here.
The [...]
IBM adds iPhone support on Lotus Domino
US based tech giant IBM has announced that the latest version of their Lotus Domino product would feature complete support for the Apple iPhone smartphone.
Apple iPhone users would get the ability to automatically synchronize e-mail, contacts and calendar data with the suite.
IBM said that Lotus Domino [...]
IBM LotusLive iNotes takes on Google with a basic email service for companies
IBM has announced their hosted email service IBM LotusLive iNotes that would cost companies around $36 annually per worker.
The main rival in this segment of the market is Google which offers the premier version of Google Apps for $50 per year per [...]
The IBM Client for Smart Work aimed at South Africa
Canonical and IBM are working together to market Linux operating system in the African market.
The companies are now offering The IBM Client for Smart Work solution in South Africa.
This solution combines the power of on-premise components with cloud computing.
Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth [...]
IBM tell employees to use Symphony over Microsoft Office
Industry reports say that IBM has instructed all their employees to use Symphony office productivity suite over Microsoft Office.
A lot of their employees were already using Symphony but others would have to switch unless they have specific reasons to stick with MS Office.
IBM Symphony [...]
IBM launches Seer Android mobile app for Wimbledon
IBM has announced the launch of a new mobile application for Google Android powered devices.
This application is based on the Seer Android platform and is focused on the Wimbledon.
IBM said that the application would deliver real-time statistics and updates from social networking site Twitter.
It would also [...]
IBM releases Lotus Symphony 1.3
US based tech giant IBM has finally released an updated edition of their Lotus Symphony office suite.
The new version comes with support for the Microsoft Office 2007 file formats.
IBM said that with support for the latest MS Office documents, Symphony is now a capable enough product for any company looking to [...]
AT&T set to launch cloud computing services
US based telecom giant AT&T has announced that they are going to offer cloud based services similar to other players in the market like IBM, Amazon, Symantec and Iron Mountain.
They would be using products and services supplied by EMC for this launch.
AT&T said that the service would initially be [...]
Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems
Rumors in the market had claimed that IBM was in talks with Sun Microsystems. The talks reportedly did not materialize.
The latest news in the market is that Oracle has now announced their decision to acquire Sun Microsystems.
The deal is worth around $7.4-billion.
This would further strengthen Oracle as they compete [...]
IBM: Conficker on around 4% of PCs out there
IBM’s Internet Security Systems division has revealed that as per their research around 4 percent of computers connected to the internet are infected with Conficker.
The service scanned around 2 million computers over the past 24 hours to come to this conclusion.
Market analysts believe that this [...]
