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Microsoft sends gamblin' Pete Rose to the plate in swing at Google Docs

Document fidelity at issue, says Microsoft, touting Office Web Apps; often moot, says analyst read more »

Yammer sales booming after Microsoft takeover

The enterprise social networking's product revenue grew 259 percent year on year in the quarter ended in March read more »

Backlash begins against Adobe's subscription-only plan

Petition on Change.org asks company to reconsider, collects 4,400 signatures in four days read more »

Windows XP migration worries exaggerated by 'dead' applications

Survey reveals heap of unused applications read more »

Microsoft rushes IE8 zero-day fix into next week's Patch Tuesday

34 fixes will also include patches for the IE10 Pwn2Own vulnerabilities read more »

HANA should be used as a catalyst to consolidate licences and save billions

Research has found that companies are running on average at least 5 instances of SAP read more »

Best case, Mozilla's Firefox for Windows 8 will ship in October

Development about a third done on 'Modern,' née 'Metro,' browser app read more »

Hackathon shows how public sector data can be used for community apps

The two-day hack attracted over 40 developers from all over the country read more »

Teradata takes on SAP’s HANA with ‘intelligent’ in-memory

The solution automatically identifies the most used data and places it into memory read more »

Tullow Oil reduces PC power use

Tullow Oil has implemented Verismic Power Manager software across all of its 2,800 PCs read more »

Estimates peg 59M Windows 8 devices in use

Microsoft knows how many Windows 8 PCs and tablets have been activated, but it's not saying read more »

More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

Top statistician warns that an abundance of data lets statisticians 'cherry pick' data points to get the results they want read more »

EMC lays off more than 1,000 as restructuring continues

EMC-owned VMware has also seen its share of layoffs this year read more »

Google may roll out overhauled Maps at Google I/O

Updated mapping app appears part of Google effort to attract more users of mobile devices read more »

Microsoft won't guarantee buy-not-rent Office for next decade

Office executive swipes at Adobe's subscription-only model, but company backs off his apparent promise to keep selling perpetual licenses for 10 years read more »

Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

Syrian government blames outage on problem with an optic cable read more »

Start button's return to Windows 8? Probably, but there's no guarantee

Top Windows engineer says 'we're thinking' about restoring the iconic UI component, but stops short of promising read more »

Barclays adopts voice biometrics for customer identification

Knowledge-based authentication will be used as a back-up read more »

Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

Nginx 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 address remote code execution flaw that could lead to compromised servers read more »

Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

The company analyzes social media to give consumers better information about online service disruptions read more »


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