2010’s notable tech industry deaths
Here’s a closer look at some of the people whose passing will leave the tech industry a little emptier
Google is world’s most attractive employer; Microsoft drops
IBM, Intel and Apple also score well in the Universum survey
Cloud Engines’ PogoPlug product brings the cloud to the home
Company aims to make managing, sharing and downloading content easy and affordable for consumers and SMBs
Cloud computing represents 10 per cent of external IT spend
Companies spend between 40 and 50 per cent of their cloud budget on cloud services from external providers
Microsoft Word for Mac 2011
Microsoft Word for Mac no longer feels like a second-string word processing program in the Microsoft Office suite
Ingram Micro Canada named an Avaya Connect value-added distributor
Distributor to carry complete line of Avaya’s Enterprise Communications solutions
New Tech Data Canada Web site puts bid pricing up front
The distributor has redesigned its Web site to increase functionality for partners and ensure they’re able to leverage qualifying promotions
3D images on smartphones may be here soon
Plus, BlackBerry’s Web presence and Microsoft’s Office for Mac 2011 product
Finding the gold lining in cloud services
A partner with a flexible,
Ericsson wins Nortel data biz for US$65 million
This is the fourth piece of Nortel that Ericsson has acquired
RIM answers Apple’s iPad, Cisco Cius with the PlayBook tablet
It isn’t called the BlackPad — thankfully — but RIM unveils its tablet competitor to Apple’s iPad. The device, unveiled at DevCon 2010, features a new OS from QNX
Apple Peel, which turns iPods into iPhones, coming to U.S.
The Chinese-developed Apple Peel 520 allows a user to turn their iPod Touch into a smartphonernrn
OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle
Developers of OpenOffice.org have created a new foundation and a new brand, LibreOffice, to promote the software suiternrn
Peer 1 offers cloud-based high performance computing
New service provides image rendering
Samsung CLX-6220FX MFP
Small workgroups will like this colour multifunction’s features and print quality, which balance out its middling performance