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Microsoft announced at a press conference on Tuesday that from next year customers will be able to purchase access to its most popular business productivity software on a cloud subscription basis.The suite will include Office 2010, Exchange ActiveSync, SharePoint, Lync and Microsoft's web apps and will be available to SMBs for $6 (£3.
The release candidate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been made available to select testing partners ahead of the product's final release later in the year the company announced on its blog on Monday.The newest iteration of the open source OS will offer a number of improvements over previous versions including more efficient power management, better networking —including comprehensive IPv6 support.
Mobile enterprise software specialist Cortado has extended its mobile Corporate Server product to support iPads, the company announced on Monday.The platform —which is already available for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices— allows office workers to perform common tasks, such as accessing documents or querying database reports remotely.
Developers using the Nokia N900 will soon have the option of dual booting into Maemo or MeeGo, according to a post on the MeeGo blog.According to the post, the PR 1.
A new version of SAP's BusinessObjects will be arriving this year, according to comments made at the company's annual TechEd conference in Berlin on Tuesday by Vishal Sikka, chief technology officer.BusinessObjects Explorer 4.
A high-ranking Intel executive has said that there will not be any MeeGo handsets before 2011, according to online reports.Intel vice president Doug Fisher conceded that the first MeeGo handsets will start to reach consumers in the first half of 2011 in an interview with Forbes on Tuesday, but added that "We have been hitting our dates...
Enterprise software and Business Intelligence vendor SAP has launched its first iPhone app designed to tie-in with its Business ByDesign offering, the company announced on Tuesday.The app, which is available for iOS devices running version 3.
Orange and T-Mobile have announced that customers on both networks can now roam with either operator, without incurring the charges often associated with traditional network roaming.The companies said on 6 September that the opt-in service would go live on 5 October.
Google has developed a new web image format known as WebP to deal with the issue of latency when loading image-heavy web pages, particularly on mobile devices.The announcement came via the Chromium blog on Thursday and claims that the new compression technique, based on the open-source VP8 codec, reduced JPEG file sizes by 39 percent and maintained image quality across the one million test samples .
The European Commission has said that it fully supports the digitisation of European cinemas and is also encouraging them to screen more European-made films.The report found that independent and smaller cinemas are unable to make the switch to digital equipment as the associated cost is too high.