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No Big-bang Apps News At I/o, but Some Announcements Merit Attention

Improvements to Gmail, Drive, Plus and Hangouts are relevant for Apps customers Full Story »
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SAP CEO 'Not Concerned' with Rise of Third Party Maintenance and Support Players

Jim Hagemann Snabe said that almost all customers are opting for more expensive support from SAP.

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Amazon Gives DynamoDB a Performance Boost

Users can now do parallel scans to access data in large tables more quickly

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SAP Updates Line-of-Business Cloud Apps

Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.

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Microsoft Improves Photo Management in Skydrive

Upload speed for photos has been increased

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Harmon.ie Aims to Close the Mobile Gap in Office 365

Harmon.ie 4.0 is designed to link the Office 365 components via a single mobile app

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Box to Revamp Document Viewing with Crocodoc Acquisition

Box plans to integrate Crocodocs' HTML5 document viewing technology into its enterprise cloud storage and file sharing application

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Microsoft Says Yammer Sales Are Booming

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

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Google Revamps Admin Console for Apps and Other Enterprise Products

The interface has been redesigned to improve navigation

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Microsoft to boost Office Web Apps features

The browser-based version of Office will get real-time co-authoring and other enhancements in the coming year

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Microsoft to Grow Office 365's Capacity to Import Contacts From Third-party Tools

Some Office 365 editions can tap contacts data from LinkedIn and Facebook

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Companies Explore Self-Detonating Data as Security Control

The popular Snapchat photo-messaging app used mainly by Android and iOS mobile device owners to share images that then self-destruct after 10 seconds is the sort of security idea that businesses say can help them secure online transactions with business partners.

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Box Takes Electronic Health Records to the Cloud

Healthcare providers were among the first industries to use tablets and other mobile devices, but leveraging them fully has been difficult due to regulations that protect electronic health records and other personal health information. But enterprise content sharing specialist Box is making an aggressive play for the healthcare vertical with what it says is a HIPAA/HITECH compliant platform.

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Pivotal Puts PaaS in the Spotlight

In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.

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Jive enterprise social product gets group templates for business tasks

The company is also adding a deep integration between its software and the Box cloud storage and file sharing service