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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to Manually Configure SBS 2011.

Sean Daniel

Friday, June 17, 2011. How to Manually Configure SBS 2011 Essentials Internet Domain Name. Back in SBS 2003 timeframe, having an Internet domain name for remote access to your server started to become more and more essential. 6/18/2011 2:44 AM. 6/22/2011 5:25 AM. SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Posted by Sean Daniel.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Small Business Server 2011 Hands On Labs

Sean Daniel

Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Small Business Server 2011 Hands On Labs. Today on the Official SBS Blog, the SBS 2011 Hands on Labs are released. The course focuses on deployment, configuration and administration using the SBS 2011 Essentials Server, Management Dashboard, and add-in extensions. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me.

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Intel is said to mull selling its security business

Network World

With the surge in cyberthreats, providing protection to the variety of Internet-connected devices, such as PCs, mobile devices, medical gear and cars, requires a fundamentally new approach involving software, hardware and services, the company said in February 2011, when announcing the completion of the McAfee acquisition.

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5 Best Practices in eBook Publishing

Kitaboo

In fact, in 2011 Amazon declared that for the first time, it had sold more Kindle e-books than paperback books, at a rate of 115 electronic books for every 100 paperbacks. Since content is easily available and shareable on the Internet, it becomes very difficult to police the web and nab copyright violators.

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How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market - Part 1

Fountainhead

This environment is also traditionally run locally on your personal hardware (laptop, desktop, etc.). Its data and user experience is delivered over the public internet. And for the enterprise users, hosted desktops represent a new world where your workspace is available anywhere, anytime, and not subject to hardware failure/loss.

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