Applications
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Microsoft wraps up ads aimed at Google with IE9 pitch
Feb 04, 2012: Microsoft on Friday wrapped up a three-day campaign against rival Google by claiming its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9, is superior in stopping users from being tracked by online advertisers.
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Energy Saving Software Might Help You Save Power
Feb 04, 2012: I'm all for saving energy, especially if it means saving money on my utility bills. But I'm not sure that Energy Saving (€20, 14-day free trial), an application designed to help you monitor and reduce your use of energy and other resources, can really help with that task.
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Making XBRL Work: EDGAR Online CFO David Price Boosts 'Collaborative' Filing
Feb 04, 2012: More CFOs these days are getting to know EDGAR Online Inc., which provides financial data, analytics and disclosure management services to the corporate and institutional investment communities -- and which is in the forefront of developing XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) processing.
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Dropcam HD Launch Delayed to Fix Video Quality Issues
Feb 04, 2012: I was thrilled to get the latest Dropcam Wi-Fi mobile connected camera in house, the Dropcam HD, shortly after it debuted at CES. I reviewed the previous model last spring and was impressed with its easy setup and cool companion apps for Android and iOS. With a more sleek design and 720p HD video capture and streaming, the Dropcam HD was one of the more exciting connected home gadgets I saw at CES. The Dropcam HD was supposed to ship at the end of January to customers, but now its launch has been delayed.
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Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Feb 04, 2012: Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
Collaboration
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Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks
Feb 04, 2012: Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.
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Facebook ripe for ridicule as it suffers outage a day after IPO filing
Feb 03, 2012: Social networkers resorted to Twitter during and following a brief Facebook outage on Thursday, a day after the company filed for its initial public offering.
Enterprise resource planning
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Maple Leaf Foods Digests Rapid, Vanilla ERP Transformation
Jan 28, 2012: An interview with Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and Jeff Hutchinson, CIO.
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SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year
Jan 26, 2012: SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview Wednesday.
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Microsoft releases PST importer for Exchange
Feb 01, 2012: In a move to help administrators rid their networks of disparate personal email archives, Microsoft has released a tool for finding and importing Outlook PST files into modern Exchange environments. The tool will also help Microsoft rid itself of the archiving format, which it no longer sees as necessary.
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Microsoft's Exchange a casualty of bank's cloud move to Google Apps
Jan 13, 2012: Seeking to transform the way its staff communicates and collaborates worldwide, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) will roll out Google Apps to its 110,000 employees, shedding along the way various legacy email systems, including Microsoft Exchange, a bank executive said in an interview.
Business intelligence
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QlikTech introduces businesses to the social with QlikView 11
Feb 03, 2012: QlikTech has announced a wealth of new features to its Business Intelligence (BI) platform, QlikView, with the release of version 11.
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Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees
Jan 28, 2012: Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.
