August 18, 2011
Report: Best Buy tells HP to take back its TouchPads
Ars Technica
Casey Johnston writes that an insider says Best Buy wants to give its unsold inventory back to HP.
“According to the same source, Best Buy took 270,000 TouchPads into inventory, and so far has managed to move less than 10 per cent of them—and that figure may not even take returned units into account. Best Buy reportedly no longer wants unsold TouchPads taking up space in its stores and warehouses, and is requesting that HP take the stock back.”
Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online users suffer outages
The Register
Paul Kunert reports on the failing that lasted more than five hours.
“Microsoft has a financially backed service level agreements (SLAs) to compensate customers for downtime. It previously acknowledged that outages are inevitable, but this did not stop some users from taking to the social media platform to air their views.”
Nokia CEO sees ‘danger ahead’ for Android phone makers
ZDNet
Zack Whittaker reports on the CEO’s views on the future of Android.
“Speaking to business leaders in Helsinki yesterday, he said that Android operators or manufacturers should expect to see ‘signs of danger’. Ahead of the merger, while Motorola will be run as a separate company from Google, it will give Motorola a license to use Android for its phones.”
