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35% use mobile apps before getting out of bed
Thirty-five percent of Android and iPhone owners in the U.S. use apps such as Facebook on their smartphone before even getting out of bed, according to a survey conducted by telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson. Read More

Facebook-Google 'cold war' suddenly gets hot
Facebook's surreptitious public relations campaign against Google shows how intense the competition has become between the two companies -- and what lengths Facebook will go to in the fight. Read More

Google calls on graduates to promote Apps in their workplace
Google is trying to recruit college students who used the company's Apps for Education suite in school to become evangelists for the business version of the product as they move on to the workplace. Read More


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Americans are more enamored than ever with Microsoft's software, according to a national customer satisfaction survey released today. Read More

What the app store future means for developers and users
Apple's iOS and Mac app stores have popularized the concept, but Microsoft, Google, and others are now adopting it. Read More

Securing Google Apps: A CIO Q&A
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Microsoft adds Chrome support for online Office apps
Microsoft will release the first service pack for Office 2010 in late June, when it will for the first time support Google's Chrome running the suite's online applications using SharePoint 2010, the company said Monday. Read More

SAP revs up mobile application strategy
SAP is giving its ongoing push into mobile applications an extra shove with a series of new products aimed at verticals such as utilities, energy, retail and manufacturing, the company announced during the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando. Read More

Mozilla details plans to kill Firefox 3.5
Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the aged Firefox 3.5 to a newer version next month by taking the unprecedented step of automatically upgrading their browser. Read More

Citrix will stream Windows apps to Chrome OS laptops
Can desktop virtualization make Chrome OS a full replacement for Windows? Read More

Mono project moves to new company
Called Xamarin, the company will continue efforts to put .Net technologies on non-Windows platforms. Read More



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