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Microsoft Shoots Back on Google Docs Microsoft Office Collaboration
Microsoft’s online product director May 11 dispelled the notion that Google Docs improves Microsoft Office, and demonstrated how moving files created with Office results in the loss of data fidelity. Google has been pitching migrations from Microsoft Office, which has more than 500 million seats worldwide, to Google Docs, the company’s Web-based document, presentation and…
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Vidyo HD Video Conferencing System Caters to Medical Uses
Video collaboration vendor Vidyo aims to make it easier for health care providers and organizations to use telepresence technology in their day-to-day work. Vidyo is rolling out VidyoHealth, a telemedicine video conferencing product that enables health care providers to user the Internet and other general-purpose IP networks to communicate with other doctors and with patients.…
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Zoho Also Gunning for Microsoft Office 2010
With all of the smack-talking and chest-bumping going on between Google’s enterprise team and Microsoft’s Office group, it’s easy to forget about other cloud computing vendors who may be affected by Microsoft’s launch of Office 2010 May 12. Office 2010 includes Office Web Apps, a cloud computing-based component of its productivity software suite designed to…
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Microsoft Windows Users to Get Skype Group Video Calling
Skype is expanding the capabilities of its video communications technology by enabling users to hold a conference with up to five people. The Skype 5.0 beta for Windows, which offers the group video calling capability, became available May 13. It is being offered as a free download. READ MORE >>
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Sungard Intros Storage Replication Service for Small Business
Data center software and services provider SunGard and storage partner EMC have come up with a new data replication service that enables IT managers of SMBs to get their systems back up and running quickly after an unplanned outage. Sungard on May 12 said its Availability Services’ Storage Replication Service will become available starting in…
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Bankers Trade Their BlackBerry Phones for Apple iPhones
(Reuters) – British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the BlackBerry, currently its standard corporate communications device, with the iPhone, a move that could eventually result in thousands of bankers switching to the Apple device for business communication on the go. Standard Chartered bankers in Asia told Reuters that the London-based lender was giving its corporate…