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Application Development News
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 »













