Tag: Office

  • Demand for Cloud-Based Applications Rising Among SMBs: Report

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    Half the employees at small and midsize businesses are estimated to be working outside the office, and a quarter of SMBs’ staff works outside the firm at any given time, at any given time, according to a new study, entitled "State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs." The report, released by business communications specialist Fonality… Read more

  • Microsoft Talks Cloud to Financial Analysts

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    Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company’s momentum over the past year. Xbox Kinect, Office 365 and other offerings were all cited as drivers of that momentum. However, executives also emphasized the relative newness of the latest generation of products, as if to suggest… Read more

  • Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages

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    It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,… Read more

  • HP Divides webOS Unit Into Software, Hardware Groups: Report

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    Hewlett-Packard will divide its webOS arm into two separate units that will report to different areas of the company, according to two leaked memos that have made their way onto the Web. HP acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system… Read more

  • Cisco Acquires Office 365 Collaboration Provider

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    Cisco Systems, continuing to look into markets outside the network infrastructure sector that it already leads, Aug. 29 announced that it is acquiring 2-year-old collaboration software maker Versly. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Versly’s speciality is that it brings Microsoft applications into social networking. It integrates employee and supply-chain collaboration within… Read more

  • Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps More Different Than The Same

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    Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defining on-premises server and thick-client productivity applications, and in the other corner, we ve had Google, with its popular Webmail… Read more