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NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Cloud Business Solutions, Social Media, and Platform Systems of Engagement Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019 http://www... (more)

REDMOND, Wash., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that several new organizations have selected Microsoft Office 365 for improved communication and collaboration after having deployed or piloted Google Apps. The organizations include Sensia Halsovard AB,... (more)

This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new articles series on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.  You can catch the full series at http://aka.ms/CloudTop20.  In today's article in this series, we'll discuss extending our... (more)

New tool for Google Apps designed specifically to take the pain out of search and retrieval A powerful user search and self-service tool for Google Apps has been launched to help users find and keep information up to date. The new tool CloudPages, has been developed by Cloud Tec... (more)

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced support for cloud applications and storage services in its self-service password software, ADSelfService Plus. Now, whenever users change their Active Directory passwords via ADSelfService Plus, those passwords ar... (more)

Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell's large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell's $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private. The pair sent the special committee of Dell's board anot... (more)

There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last months or years, debating the merits of comma placement in written citations for the work of others. Bizarre, right? But, as we all b... (more)

The Software Freedom Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and non-profit managers. You can help them do it by donating now. To keep thei... (more)

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is released by the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO ) What: The U.S. Census Bureau has joined other federal agencies and nonprofit organizations to issue a challenge ... (more)

LOS ALTOS, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/09/13 -- Box today announced the acquisition of Crocodoc, the web's leading HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution. Crocodoc's technology will be deeply integrated into the Box experience, and also become a core standalone platform offe... (more)

HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/09/13 -- To help IT and network leaders best navigate the opportunities afforded by the cloud, XO Communications today announced that it will host a free cloud computing webinar on Tuesday, May 14. In the session, experts from XO Communications ... (more)

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With the media and politicians screaming for more and more gun control legislation, it's becoming increasingly difficult for law abiding citizens to arm and protect themselves. The new website FreeGuns.biz is taking aim at those ... (more)

Workshare, a leading provider of secure enterprise collaboration applications, today announced it has extended its platform’s advanced file sharing and sync features to the developer community. By leveraging Workshare’s open API, developers can create apps that build on, customiz... (more)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, announced the general availability of the Digium Phone App Engine and Phone API Information Center for the Digium IP phones.  The Digium IP phones include an applications engine that uses a free a... (more)

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced support for cloud applications and storage services in its self-service password software, ADSelfService Plus. Now, whenever users change their Active Directory passwords via ADSelfService Plus, those passwords ar... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Google lets iOS apps direct users to Chrome instead of Safari  - iOS is notoriously locked down. Unlike Android, users cannot choose the default app for certain actions (writing mail, web browsing or mapping). G... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/08/13 -- GoodData® and Box® today introduced the GoodBox Bash™, a cloud-based app that allows Box customers to process, view and analyze key business data about the effectiveness of highly-collaborative teams. Available immediately, GoodBo... (more)

I teach a lot of SMAC strategies workshops (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) around the world.  Conducting these involves a lot of travel.  I have been pondering these last few days just how much my travel experience has changed over the past decade.  Today, mobile smartphone... (more)

Before an audience of more than 700 leaders from 100 life sciences companies at its Global Customer Summit today, Veeva Systems unveiled Veeva Network – the industry’s first complete, cloud-based customer master solution. Veeva Network, the newest addition to Veeva’s commercial s... (more)

LONDON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Visiongain's analysis indicates that the total value of the global cloud computing services market revenues reach $35.6 billion by the end of 2013, driven by increasing adoption of cloud services from the enterprise side. Companies are often he... (more)