GLOBAL software giant Adobe Systems today again was struggling to justify product price differences of up to 50 per cent between software it sold in Australia and the US. Last month during a visit to Australia, Adobe president and chief ...
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Oracle has unveiled disappointing third-quarter results, with total revenues down one per cent to $9bn (£5.92bn) and new software licences and cloud subscriptions down two per cent to $2.3bn (£1.5bn). Oracle chief financial ...
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CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products. ...
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Google Drive, the cloud storage and applications suite used by millions at home and at work, has suffered three service interruptions this week, making it impossible at times for affected users to access their files and applications. As ...
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China is standardising on Ubuntu for the country's open source operating system. Government agency, the China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu for a reference architecture to be ...
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While Michael Dell struggles to take his eponymously named hardware vendor private, BMC Software is set to be taken private in a takeover by a consortium of private equity interests. BMC, best known for its systems management software, ...
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Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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A cloud service broker is pitching Google Apps to enterprises by playing on their fears about recent changes Microsoft's made to Office. Atlanta-based Cloud Sherpas has had success moving Google Apps for Business by focusing on two major ...
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Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software has updated its namesake software with additional tools for connecting to the sources of data in the cloud. "There is clearly a big surge of cloud-based data sources," said Francois ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision last month to call all of the company's telecommuters back to the office posed a creative challenge for video collaboration services provider Blue Jeans Network. In response, the three-year-old startup ...
Citrix Systems has upgraded its Podio applications for Android and iOS, as well as the ShareFile app for the latter, which can now be used to edit Microsoft Office documents. Podio is a cloud-based collaboration platform, while ShareFile ...
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Half of all businesses believe the data they process represents as much as three quarters of the value of their organisation. That's according to Microsoft UK's data platform product marketing manager, Anthony Saxby, who was discussing new ...
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Symbility Solutions has inked a strategic partnership agreement with Weather Fusion to help their mutual customers view and archive hail reports directly within Symbility Mobile Claims software. As part of the agreement, Weather Fusion ...
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Earlier this month, the Consumer Reports auto engineers hosted a pilot program, taking live calls from readers in a radio-show format. This trial episode is complete and now available for viewing or download. In looking for a fresh way to ...
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Although Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that Chrome OS and Android will remain separate operating systems "for a very, very long time," one analyst still thinks the two will eventually merge. Despite Schmidt's comments, ...
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