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Article | 8/05/2013 X1 desktop search tool now indexes SharePoint, cloud email
X1 has released the biggest upgrade of its desktop search tool in four years, adding the ability to query SharePoint sites and tap webmail accounts.
Article | 8/05/2013 Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products
Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps ...
Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to design an open source switch
As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.
Article | 8/05/2013 NetSuite buys OrderMotion, fleshes out e-commerce portfolio
NetSuite is beefing up its cloud-based ERP software's order-processing features by acquiring OrderMotion, a move that could strengthen its appeal to c...
Article | 8/05/2013 Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software
The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulner...
Article | 8/05/2013 Microsoft to boost Office Web Apps features
Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-author...
Article | 7/05/2013 Windows Blue preview due at end of June
Microsoft plans to release a preview version of Windows 8's update, code-named Windows Blue, at the end of June, according to Julie Larson-Green, a co...
Article | 7/05/2013 Asus readies small, sub-$US300 Windows slates for release
Would you pay an extra $US50 for a pint-sized tablet if it ran Windows 8 instead of Android? Asus thinks you might.
Article | 7/05/2013 SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
Article | 7/05/2013 Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services
The general release of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK for Node.js is available for download, allowing developers to build server-side applications ...
Article | 7/05/2013 Microsoft's Windows Blue to be available later this year
Microsoft's update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors...
Article | 6/05/2013 Windows 8 update: Gates - Windows 8 is about the iPad
Windows 8 is Microsoft's best effort to catch up with Apple and grab tablet sales away from the iPad by including things iPads just don't have, accord...
Article | 6/05/2013 Gates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard ...
Article | 6/05/2013 Mozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec
The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate...
Article | 6/05/2013 BMC set to go private in $US6.9 billion deal
BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.