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IBM’s acquired of mobile software provider Worklight

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:43:42 +0000

February 1 morning news, IBM said that it has completed the acquisition of Israel’s software vendor Worklight, Worklight is a private enterprise, mainly engaged in smart phones and tablet PCs with mobile software business. Relevant details of the transaction have not been disclosed, but from a report, the transaction should cost about $ 70 million.

IBM said in a recent number of the company’s chief information officer for the research showed that 75% of the CIO have expressed their willingness to put money into priority mobile devices and mobile software.

LiveOffice email archiving company acquired by Symantec

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:59:16 +0000

January 17th morning news, Symantec announced that it has spent $ 115 million acquisition of a cloud computing e-mail archiving company LiveOffice on Monday.

LiveOffice is a software as a service company, specializing in e-mail archiving, finishing, and hosting services. In addition to cloud computing e-mail archiving, LiveOffice can also provide local e-mail archiving services. With LiveOffice’s service, the user can easily change service providers without having to worry about losing sensitive information.

In addition to e-mail archiving, when the user’s main cloud hosting downtime, LiveOffice can also provide backup.

LiveOffice was founded in 1998, with 20,000 users, it can deal millions of e-mail messages every day. The company’s investors include Summit Partners. LiveOffice CEO Nick Mehta who served as Symantec executives, responsible for archiving and mining business.

Google adjusted search results: further integration of social information

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:30:31 +0000

January 10th news, Google announced that it would adjust the search results, mainly to integrate Google + search results and social services. Google claimed that this is the biggest adjustment on the search results.

The new feature called “Search Plus Your World”, when the user search for a friend name, then the user can see pictures and content published by friends; in the search topic, the user can also see the related dialogue. Google search researchers Amit Singhal said: “At present, which you search for something is most wrote by people do not know, and the new feature lets you become the search center.”

Google’s social network is behind of other social network, facing risk. In order to catch up, Google co-founder Larry Page came to power and launched Google + service. From the beginning, Google + isn’t in order to replace Facebook, but provide social information for Google, for the mainly products search.

The purpose for “Search Plus Your World” appeared was that. When users log into Google services, such as Gmail, the search results will show the user Google + post which from circle of friends.
If the users log into Google +, then they can see the personalized posts, both open contents and individual contents, also including a friend to share content.