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Salesforce.com 'aggressively investigating' database error | Amazon's profits fall 45%, shares of AMZN reach all-time high

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Office 365 vs. Office 2013: Should you rent or own?
For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they've bought as a standalone program. It's not a foreign proposition. We pay annual subscription fees for our anti-virus software. Last April, Adobe rolled out its Creative Cloud subscription package for renting Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. Read More

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Salesforce.com 'aggressively investigating' database error
Salesforce.com is "aggressively investigating" a database software error that led to temporary performance problems in part of its infrastructure. Read More

Amazon's profits fall 45%, shares of AMZN reach all-time high
If you're looking for any consistency on Wall Street, forget about it. Earlier this week Amazon reported earnings that missed Wall St. estimates by quite a bit. All told, Amazon reported net income of $97 million (a decrease of 45% year over year) and EPS of $0.21 compared to $0.38 per share during the same quarter a year ago. Read More

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BaaS: It's a crowded (and young) market
Back-end as a service offers standard features to drop into your apps, so your developers can spend their time on the most strategic pieces. Read More

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Social Revolution: Connecting with Today's Customer
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Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium: A visual tour
In hopes of luring more users from Google Docs to Office 365, Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its cloud-friendly suite of productivity applications. Beyond adding stylus and touch support, Microsoft has boosted collaboration in Word, added new visualization tools to Excel, and made Outlook Facebook-friendly. Read More

IBM takes aim at Amazon in the cloud
In what appears to be a swipe at market leader Amazon Web Services, IBM this week has announced a new version of its public cloud computing offering that provides customers additional support and services to manage enterprise applications in its cloud, such as those from SAP. Read More

Three obstacles to restoring the BlackBerry brand
RIM today hosted a major event in New York toA launch the new BlackBerry 10 OS. RIM also announced that the company is rebranding itself as BlackBerry. A fresh new brand with a highly anticipated mobile platform should give the company reason for optimism, but BlackBerry 10 (BB10) isn't just a new iteration of the once-dominant smartphone brand--it's a sink-or-swim proposition that will determine the fate of the company itself. Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Elastic Caching for a Smarter Planet
Live Date & Time: January 30, 2013 at 12:00 pm ET Social Media, mobile devices and new innovative infrastructures mean that more data is being used to serve end-users more than ever before. Enterprise customers must act quickly on data stored across their enterprise. Register Now

New specifications to ease delivery of carrier Ethernet services
Service providers will be able to launch Ethernet services more quickly and make them work across other carriers more easily with a new set of standards for carrier Ethernet equipment, backers of the specifications say. Read More

Symantec CEO: 'We'll absolutely have a Norton brand'
Symantec has commenced with a massive reorganization, saying it will end the internal separation that's traditionally been made in security software development done in the Norton consumer division and its enterprise product lines. But that doesn't mean Symantec's Norton brand is going to disappear, according to Symantec CEO Steve Bennett. Read More

Three years later, has Oracle's Sun buy paid off?
Oracle may have had its hands full lately dealing with Java security issues, but the company's acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems three years ago this month still has paid off, company President Mark Hurd said. An investment research firm, though, still has listed Oracle's Sun acquisition as reason to sell off Oracle stock. Read More

IT security vendor Verdasys brings DLP to the cloud
Security vendor Verdasys says it's ready to bring data loss prevention (DLP) to the cloud. Read More

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