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SAP Introduces Two-Tiered Support


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TOP STORY: SAP Introduces Two-Tiered Support

MORE NEWS: Haiti Quake Website Buckles

ANALYTIC REPORT: Storage Automation: 8 Questions To Ask Before Buying

WHITEPAPER: 7 Ways to Cut Supply Chain Costs

BLOG: iPhone 2010 To Have Touch-Sensitive Casing

WEBCAST: Vendor Webcast: Becoming the Enterprise Single Sign-on IT Hero: A Case Study

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

SAP Introduces Two-Tiered Support


Bowing to customer complaints, the company has also frozen prices for existing Enterprise Support contracts at the 2009 level.

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Haiti Quake Website Buckles

Portal meant to disseminate information about conditions and collect donations goes offline.

Google Earth Gets Haiti Earthquake Imagery

Tech companies are mobilizing to provide information to relief groups and financial assistance.

Apple Drops In PC Vendor Rankings

Mac shipments fell to fifth place in the fourth quarter, but Apple likely outpaced rivals in profitability.

AMD Intros $99 DirectX 11 Graphics Card

The ATI Radeon HD 5670 gives low-priced desktops power to handle mainstream video game graphics.

Law Firm Suing China Hit By Cyber Attack

Targeted e-mail messages tried to trick recipients into clicking on malicious links.

RealNetworks CEO To Step Down

Rob Glaser will remain chairman of the company's board.

Universities Agree Not To Promote Kindle DX

The schools have agreed with the Justice Department not to purchase, recommend, or promote e-book readers that aren't fully accessible to visually impaired people.

Kodak Sues Apple, RIM For Patent Breaches

Film and photography vendor claims iPhone, Blackberry rip off its digital imaging tech.

Meru Debuts WLAN Uptime Program

Its assurance plan will provide 99.99% WLAN availability with less than one hour of unplanned downtime a year, Meru Networks says.


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iPhone 2010 To Have Touch-Sensitive Casing

Posted By Eric Zeman


Goldman Sachs believes the next-generation iPhone will pack a 5 megapixel camera and a touch-sensitive casing, similar to Apple's Magic Mouse. It will begin its life in manufacturing facilities some time in April, in time to hit store shelves by June.

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Google Revamps BlackBerry Mobile App


Posted by Eric Zeman

Today Google announced a new version of the Google Mobile Application for BlackBerries. Why upgrade? Well, the new version can now search both the device and the network for wayward email messages and contact information.

Gmail Traffic Now Encrypted By Default, But Will Organizations Heed The Shift?

Posted By David Berlind

Kudos to the folks at Gmail who, in defaulting to a secure browser setting (as opposed to the previous insecure default) for sending and retrieving email, have decided to help users who may not know enough to help themselves.

What Is Cloud Appropriate Data?

Posted By George Crump

As the use of cloud storage becomes more prevalent this year one of the key challenges is what data should go to cloud storage, when that data should be moved there and how should that data be moved there?

Google Nexus Two Aimed At Enterprise

Posted By Ed Hansberry


That's right, I said Nexus Two. Just days after Google's own phone running Android, dubbed the Nexus One, Google has already mentioned another device that will be aimed at the enterprise rather than the consumer. No name was given to this device, so it could be Nexus Two or something else entirely. Whatever it is called, it is on its way.


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