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Just ask a statistician. Big data is simply anything that won't fit in Excel.

 if you want to upgrade your BB device or get back in the BlackBerry fold, the new Z10 smartphone model will be available for $199 on a two year contract. Americans can pre-order it from tomorrow at AT&T.

Microsoft started the roll-out of the updated version of Office 365 for business users earlier this week. The upgrades are present in all elements of the suite and reflect a changing work environment that is now more mobile, social and collaborative than it was when the suite was originally launched 18 months ago.

 Continuing to fight the open source Office battle, Libre Office has had a major upgrade to version 4.0 with cleaner code, improved interoperability with other suites, presentation remote control and new themes. 

From the Gilbane Conference in Boston Wednesday, Web content management and marketing vendor Percussion has announced a partnership with DivvyHQ, a vendor of a spreadsheet-free editorial calendar applications.

Microsoft's Office dominance is under attack as cloud services, users working on tablets and even the replacement documents by emails all take their toll. What can Microsoft pull out of the hat to liven its ageing service? 

In this latest installment in my series showing how to use Office 365, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Windows Phone 7.5 technologies to put together a streamlined, standardized project management system, we will continue exploring methods of centralized information sharing.

As the trend to move off the desktop continues, Microsoft is reducing the pricing for its web-based Office 365 suite to enterprises with various packages down between 10% to 20% with storage slashed to cents per GB.

Android users have millions of apps to enjoy, but there's still some envy for iOS's best-in-class products. Another of those pins will fall down soon, with the upcoming release of mega-popular photo app Instagram while a faster updated Facebook app is out now.

 Assuming Microsoft accepts it has no tablet presence and won't for some time, then it needs to get Office to as many tablet users as possible to keep one toe in a booming market. So, why not bring a new Office to the iPad?

Say compliance and people think accounting or litigation. However, Oracle (news, site) has just announced that it has taken to environmental compliance with the integration of an environmental metrics and data measuring solution into Oracle Applications.

We've been focused on learning about the upcoming versions of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. But Microsoft also has another product just out as a CTP (community technology preview) -- SQL Server 2008 R2.

Originally codenamed SQL Server Kilimanjaro, SQL Server 2008 R2 has a number of new features and functionality that will focus on business intelligence and reporting.

eXpresso Corp (news, site) offers a way to make collaborating online using Excel files less of a hassle, improving productivity and awareness when sharing data.

Building a mobile website is not as simple as one would imagine, but mobiSiteGalore wants to change that. This service allows users to build mobile websites for free with a simple interface. However, what makes mobiSiteGalore truly special is that the site building can be performed directly from a mobile device.

Kapow Technologies is helping organizations harness the true power of the web – the power of information. They have announced Kapow OnDemand, an enterprise mashup and web harvesting service. Their solution helps organizations pull data from the web in into databases for mashups and web applications or for Microsoft Excel in real-time.