A Social Business with an exra dose of Social

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Throughout the last 2 years the Auckland CityMission has been quietly receiving a weekly delivery offresh local food from Auckland based social business Ooooby.During this time Ooooby, a local food business with a socialmission to support local farmers, has contributed over$12,000 worth of fresh local food to Auckland families indesperate…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 8:00 am

Fujitsu acquires French cloud startup RunMyProcess

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Fujitsu has acquired RunMyProcess, a French startup that helps companies integrate on-site and cloud-based services. The startup offers API “connectors” for online services such as Google Apps that allow the services to talk to existing databases and other online services. This means a customer could keep its existing backend and…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 8:00 am

Eset выпустил обновленные решения для защиты файловых и почтовых …

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Proizvoditel antivirusov Eset vypustil obnovlennye reshenija dlja zaschity fajlovyx i pochtovyx serverov. Eset NOD32 File Security dlja Microsoft Windows Server antivirusnyj produkt, kotoryj obespechivaet zaschitu fajlovyx serverov ot vsex tipov vredonosnyx programm; reshenie avtomaticheski obnaruzhivaet opasnye prilozhenija i fajly, sposobnye narushit rabotosposobnost servera. Proverka sistemy osuschestvljaetsja v rezhime mnogopotochnogo skanirovanija….

Posted on: April 7, 2013 6:00 pm

Dropbox version 2.0 features a one-stop menu for file-sharing

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Dropbox today released a version 2.0 of its desktop client for Windows and Mac OS X, featuring a new drop-down menu from which users can create links to documents and folders, accept invitations, view shared links or albums, and monitor changes to their accounts. The new client is also supported “If…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 8:00 am

Autodesk launches new design, creation softwares

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Autodesk India, the Indian arm of the Nasdaq listed $2.31 billion American Autodesk, global leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, on Thursday launched a range of new design and creation software portfolio for the architecture engineering and construction, manufacturing and media and entertainment sectors. “For the first time, the…

Posted on: April 6, 2013 6:00 pm

IBM launches social-business data center in Germany

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IBM announced on Thursday that its newest SmartCloud data center in Europe will be located in Ehningen, Germany. The company will use the facility to provide public, private and hybrid cloud services to enterprise customers. These services will include tooks like online meetings, email, calendaring and instant messaging, among others….

Posted on: April 6, 2013 6:00 pm

Gartner Says In-Memory Computing Is Racing Towards Mainstream Adoption

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The rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies and a continued dramatic decline in the cost of semiconductor technologies are paving the way for mainstream use of in-memory computing (IMC). Gartner, Inc. said that although the in-memory data grid (IMDG)* market, a key IMC segment, is small, it is likely to…

Posted on: April 6, 2013 6:00 pm

Wrike Adds Real-Time Update Capabilities To Let Employees Manage Tasks …

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Wrike has enhanced its task-management offering with new features that offer online and offline, real-time updates. The additions allow customers to track changes of online documents in tasks and projects, as well as provide the ability to track who made the edits and when, thanks to baked-in version control. Wrike’s…

Posted on: April 6, 2013 6:00 pm

CIOs must reskill to succeed with in-memory computing

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Analyst firm Gartner has urged CIOs to ensure their teams have the right skills to exploitin-memory computing. Gartner defines in-memory computing as an emerging paradigm enabling users to developapplications that run advanced queries or perform complex transactions, on very large datasets, atleast one order of magnitude faster and in a…

Posted on: April 6, 2013 1:00 pm

Salesforce.com adding ‘social intelligence’ features to Chatter

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Salesforce.com continues to build out its Chatter social networking and collaboration software, with upcoming “social intelligence” capabilities that will allow users to find information through new Topics and Expertise categories. Chatter is built into Salesforce.com’s underlying Force.com technology platform, allowing users of its CRM (customer relationship management) and other…

Posted on: April 6, 2013 8:00 am