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Article | 26/04/2013 Salesforce, the pillow maker and the $125,000 AmEx bill
Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of the pillow maker are caught up in a complex three-way legal battle, with a US$125,000 America...
Article | 25/04/2013 Will we see Key Lime Pie at Google I/O, after all?
The idea that Google's going to release a new version of Android called Key Lime Pie at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco in a couple of w...
Article | 25/04/2013 Windows Blue won't solve all Microsoft's problems, analysts say
"Windows 8 sucks because Windows 8 apps suck", said analyst Michael Cherry, not mincing words. "And there's nothing in all these rumors of Windows Blu...
Article | 25/04/2013 Windows 8 tablet sales: not terrible so far
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news.
Article | 25/04/2013 Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develo...
Article | 25/04/2013 Security of hosted services is top priority for Adobe's first CSO
Adobe Systems has appointed Brad Arkin, the company's senior director of security for products and services, to become its first CSO. With a mature pr...
Article | 25/04/2013 Box sets its sights on healthcare customers
Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that ...
Article | 24/04/2013 Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market
Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling the...
Article | 24/04/2013 North Carolina auditor: 84 state-run IT projects well over budget, schedule
Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned sche...
Article | 24/04/2013 Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies
Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready dat...
Article | 24/04/2013 In Pictures: 12 Linux nerds you should follow
There are a lot of personalities out there in the Linux corner of the Internet.
Article | 23/04/2013 MuleSoft catches the API fever, buys ProgrammableWeb
Following in the footsteps of Intel and CA Technologies, open source middleware provider MuleSoft has acquired a vendor of API (Application Programmin...
Article | 23/04/2013 Jive enterprise social product gets group templates for business tasks
Jive Software has upgraded its enterprise social collaboration product to make it easier to tailor group sites for specific business tasks and flag me...
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 23/04/2013 Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform
Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship ...