November, 2012
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 92
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Surface Pro Gets Priced Hope You’ve Been Really Nice This Year
For a niche product, the new Microsoft Surface Pro will bear a hefty price for those wanting a tablet that will run native Windows 8 applications. Microsoft has released its pricing for the upcoming Pro version of its latest tablet. The Surface Pro, which will start at $899 for a 64GB version and goes up [...]
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Tales from the Cloud- Episode 91
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Cisco is on a Holiday Shopping Spree Buying up another Company
It seems Cisco is in a shopping mood this holiday season as it has picked up another company Cariden Technologies. The Networking giant announced today its plans to acquire the telecommunication network management company through a press release seen below. This is the third acquisition announcement in the better part of two weeks for the [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 90
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Microsoft Announces 40 Million Copies of Windows 8 Sold So Where are all the Users?
Tami Reller the newly crowned Corporate VP of Windows announced today to investors that Microsoft has sold 40M copies of Windows 8. The news comes among speculation of the Microsoft OS being a flop by numerous media outlets and social media sentiment, which has many naming Windows 8 another Vista or ME. The Microsoft executive [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 89
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What are Customers Saying about Windows 8?
Anyone? Crickets…Anyone? Windows 8 launched a month ago and news seems pretty light for such an important product. Microsoft launched the new OS on October 26th with pretty mixed reviews and many have publicly stated that Windows 8 will be a flop. Microsoft is building a foundation for the future of the platform and as [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 88
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Bogus Press Release Skyrockets Penny Stock and Uses Google’s Name to do so
The press release seen below went out to the wire via PR Web and was reporting the sale of broadband company ICOA Inc. to Google for a whopping $400M. It appears that the press release that spurred countless news articles and drove shares of ICOA’s penny stock up 122% was bogus. ICOA Inc. that is [...]
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Tales from the Cloud- Episode 87
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Public Outcry over AT&T blocking Facetime over Cellular Feature has Impact
AT&T seems to be slowly opening up Facetime over Cellular for users of iOS devices. With the release of iOS6, Apple integrated the feature into iPhone products allowing users to utilize Facetime on cellular networks and taking off the Wi-Fi only restriction. AT&T chose to initially only allow users of its then new “shared data” [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 86
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HP Stands for Help
HP needs some major help and fast, as its recent numbers and its latest fiasco with acquired company Autonomy has the company riding a downward spiral. If the negative numbers across the board for HP in Q4 weren’t bad enough the once giant PC maker is facing public scrutiny over accounting issues at its acquired [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 85
