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Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business
The battle between Microsoft and Google for office cloud dominance reminds me of the clash of the Titans. Microsoft and its classic on-premises business model is like Gaia, the earth goddess, and Google with its disruptive lightening bolt, is like Zeus, a sky god and a next generation kind of god.
By Julie Bort | 02 November, 2011 21:34
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Microsoft posts record quarter but says tablets have “cannibalized” netbooks
Despite weak consumer demand for PCs, Microsoft posted record first quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the period that ended Sept. 30. This beat analysts' reported expectations of $17.2 billion. Revenue increased 7% percent over the year-ago period. Microsoft credited the increase to enterprise demand for Office, server and development tools.
By Julie Bort | 21 October, 2011 11:36
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Indian IT firms hire few U.S. workers
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) surveyed Indian companies across a variety of industries and found that in the majority of industry sectors, about 80 per cent of their U.S. workforces were local hires. The exceptions were in the IT and business-process outsourcing (BPO) industries, where Indian firms relied mostly on visa-holding workers.
By Patrick Thibodeau | 05 April, 2011 07:04
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BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants
The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last year's disastrous oil spill may have been potentially compromised after a laptop containing the data was lost by a BP employee.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 March, 2011 11:35
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Official report: BP oil spill IT systems lacked key alarms
BP's monitoring IT systems on the failed Deepwater Horizon oil rig relied too heavily on engineers following complex data for long periods of time, instead of providing automatic warning alerts.
By Leo King | 07 January, 2011 04:14
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