SMB Tech News Today; 4/20

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Apr 20, 20071 min

* RIM explains the outage. Just in case your road warriorness came to a screeching halt last Tuesday-Wednesday, the RIM guys are offering an explanation. Read and regain the warm and fuzziness. (Source: InfoWorld) * Open Source going mobile, too. The Googlers and Apple have been pushing hard into the mobile world, so now it's the Penguin's turn. The guys behind the popular Gnome open source user interface have a

* RIM explains the outage. Just in case your road warriorness came to a screeching halt last Tuesday-Wednesday, the RIM guys are offering an explanation. Read and regain the warm and fuzziness. (Source: InfoWorld)

* Open Source going mobile, too. The Googlers and Apple have been pushing hard into the mobile world, so now it’s the Penguin’s turn. The guys behind the popular Gnome open source user interface have announced that they’re going for the mobile segment, too. (Source: PC World)

* Google chasing collab tech big-time. First it’s Google Apps, then CRM and Google Talk and now they’ve bought video conferencing software from a Swedish company, called Marratech. Looks like the want to stomp on Office Live in a big way. (Source: InformationWeek)

* Lenovo axing 1400 workers. Move to Taiwan, fire off the fat. Lenovo announced it was cutting 1400 jobs throughout its worldwide operations in an effort to ‘streamline’ operations. Hope it doesn’t streamline ThinkPad product and service quality into the bargain. (Source: DigiTimes)