April 6, 2011
Dell’s 10-inch Windows 7 tablet won’t debut until fall
ZD Net
Rachel King shares details about Dell’s tablet plans for this year.
“Dell recently announced that it would launch a 10-inch tablet to compliment its five- and seven-inch slates. However, it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit. According to Forbes, the Windows 7-based tablet won’t be launched until ‘September at the earliest,’ but a ‘Windows 8 tablet’ could be on the way early next year too. Depending on just how early the Windows 8 machine is shipped next year, that could be a small window for two tablet releases. Forbes points out that this unnamed Windows 7 tablet (which may or may not fall within the Streak family) could be intended for a holiday release.”
Mobile Payments Will Disrupt, Just Not Immediately [REPORT]
Mashable
Christina Warren shares Forrester’s predictions about the future state of the mobile payment industry.
“In the (Forrester) report ‘Mobile Payments Enter a Disruptive Phase,’ Forrester analyst Thomas Husson says that only 12 per cent of adults in the U.S. and six per cent of adults in Europe have made transactions from their phones. Still, Forrester finds that mobile payments ‘have the potential to disrupt existing payment systems.’ The speed in which this disruption takes hold of the industry, however, may be slow going.”
Nimsoft Launches Service Desk Software for MSPs
MSPmentor
Joe Panettieri writes about Nimsoft’s new Unified Manager SaaS solution.
“Nimsoft, part of CA Technologies, is pushing beyond its monitoring software heritage and launching a service desk solution. The new offering, called Nimsoft Unified Manager, combines monitoring and service management in a single SaaS solution. It’s based on software that Nimsoft quietly acquired in December 2010, according to Nimsoft director of product marketing Chris O’Connell. According to a prepared statement from Nimsoft: ‘By unifying monitoring and service management, Nimsoft Unified Manager empowers service providers and IT organizations to more efficiently and effectively optimize delivery of IT services to business users across internal and external IT infrastructures―including public and private cloud environments.’”