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Android sees 5x growth in enterprise, says survey

Publié: septembre 22, 2010, 11:15pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Market research company ChangeWave today published the results of its latest survey, which focuses on corporate smartphone spending, and the market segment that is the stronghold for Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform.
According to ChangeWave, BlackBerry continues to dominate the enterprise sector, but it dropped three percentage points from the team's last survey in May. The interesting discovery is that Google's Android operating system has jumped up another six percentage points since May, meaning it has grown five-fold since last November.
Among the 1,602 corporate IT buyers ChangeWave surveyed, 35% reported that their companies plan to buy new smartphones in the next quarter. Among these, 16% said they were considering HTC devices, and 15% said they were considering Motorola devices. Corporate interest in HTC is at an all-time high, according to ChangeWave's data, and Motorola is regaining the relevance it began seriously losing in early 2007.
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ChangeWave - Google - Android - Smartphone - Research In Motion
Microsoft Security Essentials free anti-malware coming to small businesses, too

Publié: septembre 22, 2010, 9:25pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Microsoft on Wednesday announced it will be making its free Security Essentials product available to small business in a 10-pack of licenses in October. The anti-malware product has thus far been aimed at the consumer market, and has garnered quite a bit of recognition as a high quality free software antivirus.
This new availability is thanks to a change in the software's end user licensing agreement (EULA), which now lets business customers put Security Essentials on individually managed PCs.
"When we launched Microsoft Security Essentials last year, small businesses kept telling us that it was exactly the type of thing they need at work too," Jeff Smith, director of Marketing for Microsoft Security Essentials said today."What they really wanted from their antivirus software --inexpensive, quiet protection from a provider they can trust-- were all things Microsoft Security Essentials could clearly deliver."
Microsoft Security Essentials is available in 74 markets worldwide in 25 languages, and small businesses with 10 PCs or less will be able to download it next month on http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials.
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Microsoft Security Essentials - Microsoft - antivirus - Malware - Business
Chatter, the enterprise sector's own Facebook, gets significant update

Publié: septembre 22, 2010, 7:28pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) software leader Salesforce today unveiled a revamped version of its still-new, social media-inspired collaboration tool Chatter, which is expected to come to customers in October.
Salesforce is calling the new version "Chatter 2," and it adds more than a dozen new features to the available version of the product, which is essentially Facebook for enterprise. Even though it has only been available since June, Chatter has already been picked up by more than 20,000 companies, including Dell, Hitachi, Misys and Softbank. So this update is no small affair.
Users can now filter their Chatter feeds according to groups, people, and records, topics can now be hashtagged like Twitter and found via search; topics, users, and groups are now automatically recommended based upon common connections, followers and management position; and analytics and reports can be turned into events that users can discuss and follow.
One of the major improvements in Chatter 2 is the inclusion of a standalone desktop client, which is powered by Adobe's AIR, and was built by Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com which was launched to the general public just two months ago.
Styled to be just like the browser-based UI of Chatter, Chatter Desktop lets employees post updates, comments, files and links, but also includes pop-up alerts to instantly notify employees of important updates. In addition to its cross-platform capabilities, these "toaster alerts" were a major reason Salesforce chose to build the application in AIR.
"From Adobe's point of view, this kind of application is why we made Flash Builder for Force.com. Any developer interested in building an online/offline AIR application integrated into the Salesforce cloud can build it with this tool," Adobe representatives told Betanews this week.
Chatter 2 will be available at no extra charge to Salesforce CRM and Force.com customers as early as October, and will be included in the Winter 2011 release.
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Force.com - Facebook - Twitter - Salesforce.com - Adobe
Netflix streaming finally comes to Canada

Publié: septembre 22, 2010, 3:46pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Netflix Instant streaming, the increasingly popular and ubiquitous subscription movie on demand service has officially launched in Canada after more than three years of availability in the United States. This is the first time the service has been made available outside of the U.S.
Fortunately for Canadian Netflix subscribers, there are already a wealth of devices which will let them watch videos on their TV: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony PlayStation3, Nintendo Wii, Samsung and Toshiba connected Blu-ray players, and TiVo.
Netflix on Wednesday said the service will be added to the Xbox 360 in Canada this fall, as well as to Vizio and Insignia Blu-ray players, Samsung connected TVs and Apple TV.
The $7.99 subscription service unveiled today only covers streaming videos, and is available in English only. There is reportedly no plan to begin offering the company's DVD-by-mail service, but French language streaming will eventually be offered.
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iPhone - Apple - United States - Canada - iPod Touch