Posts Tagged ‘Apps’
Specialty iPad apps for business users
There are many, many uses of an iPad in business. We’ve selected the productivity suite that every business iPad should have, but individual employees have plenty of work needs that require specialty apps.
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VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps
VMware is developing a new hosted service with the code name “Project Horizon” that will allow delivery of cloud-based desktop applications to any sort of user device, and perhaps further its goal of diminishing the importance of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
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Google I/O 2010 – Run corporate applications on Google App Engine? Yes we do. App Engine, Enterprise 201 Ben Fried, Irwin Boutboul, Justin McWilliams, Matthew Simmons Hear Google CIO Ben Fried and his team of engineers describe how Google builds on App Engine. If you’re interested in building corp apps that run on Google’s cloud, this team has been doing exactly that. Learn how these teams have been able to respond more quickly to business needs while reducing operational burden. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html
11 free Linux apps your business needs now
Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software.
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Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China
Computerworld – Between one and four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chinese-owned server, a mobile security firm said today.
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Yahoo drops new Android apps for Mail and Messenger
Hooking up Android’s email client to a Yahoo! account was not typically a simple affair. With Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, you could just type in your email address and password, and the Android client would set it up for you.
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‘Apps for the Army’ seeks new software
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Army announced its first internal applications-development challenge March 1. The program, called “Apps for the Army,” or A4A, gives Army personnel the opportunity to demonstrate their software-development skills.
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PHP Developers Prefer Using Windows to Build Enterprise Apps: Study
Developer.com: “According to the study, 42 percent of respondents reported that Windows was their primary operating system for development. Linux came in as No. 2 at 38.5 percent while Mac OS X remained in third place at 19.1 percent.”
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