December 7, 2011
Report: Microsoft finally developing Office suite for iPad On The VAR Guy, Dave Courbanou reports on the potential offering. “Did you detect the irony? Microsoft is building Office for the iPad, which likely will rake in tons of money for Microsoft and then subsequently, Apple, as businesspeople will almost definitely be more amenable to buying an iPad when it supports more familiar productivity applications,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Tell me again, why does Apple need to make TVs? On ZDNet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes explores the question. “The buying public are also odd when it comes picking up new TVs. People seem to have two metrics – How much is it, and will it fit in the space I have for it? This is why TV makers make TVs is a huge range of sizes. For example, in the Toshiba LCD TV range alone, the company makes twenty different sets ranging from 22-inch to 55-inch while Samsung makes twenty-one different LED TVs ranging from 22-inch to 65-inch,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Cisco wants to build your cloud On The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan reports on the networking giant’s cloud news. “The CloudVerse initiative – it’s not really a product – is about capitalizing on whatever cloudy infrastructure build-out there is. To that end, Cisco is making its networks more cloud friendly,” he writes. What’s your opinion?