Boston dumping Microsoft Exchange for Google Apps

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Boston dumping Microsoft Exchange for Google Apps

Faced with the choice of saving serious money or buying a load of FUD, the City of Boston has become the latest enterprise customer to dump Microsoft Exchange in favor of Google Apps. And the city's 20,000 employees won't be the last to make this move until Microsoft either closes the cost chasm or comes up with a scarier story.

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4. NSA's secret manual on Google searching and more comes to light

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6. Ubuntu desktop is just easy

7. Windows 8: 100 million licenses sold, but how many in use?

8. Flexible-display smartphones just a 'novelty'…. for now

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12. Pretty much everybody still confused by mobile management

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iTunes: Still slowing down Windows PCs after all these years

Over the years we've had to deal with antivirus programs bringing PCs to a screeching halt as they perform a "background" scan. At my last job, it was a morning tradition to plug in the PC, boot it and go for a walk while McAfee did the daily scan that reduced my PC to the speed of a 386. It's one reason why I use ESET's NOD32. The program is written in assembly and runs incredibly fast. I can perform... READ MORE

Ubuntu Touch for smartphones could be ready by end of May

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NSA's secret manual on Google searching and more comes to light

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from MudRock, we can now feast our eyes upon a 643-page manual from the NSA titled, "Untangling the Web: A guide to Internet Research." As the name implies, the manual is a how-to with respect to conducting detailed online research. Wired pinpoints some particularly interesting factoids from the manual: READ MORE

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YouTube launches paid subscription channels

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Ubuntu desktop is just easy

As some of you may remember I installed a dual boot Ubuntu set up on my laptop some weeks back using WABI. Initially I was switching back and forth between Windows 8 and Ubuntu to compare and contrast between them. After a little bit of time though I had settled back into Windows and wasn't booting Ubuntu as much anymore. READ MORE

Windows 8: 100 million licenses sold, but how many in use?

Windows 8 has passed the 100 million mark. That's the word from Tami Reller, the CFO of the Windows division at Microsoft. In a Q&A conducted by another Microsoft employee and posted to the Windows blog (that's some hard hittin' journalism, there), Reller discussed the facts and figures of Windows 8 at the six-month mark. READ MORE

Flexible-display smartphones just a 'novelty'…. for now

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IT pros leave money on the table, job site finds

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Pretty much everybody still confused by mobile management

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