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Whether or not companies plan to upgrade to SharePoint 2013, HiSoftware has launched version 3.0 of its Security Sheriff SP tool for locking down sensitive documents in any SharePoint configuration.

Online pin board and popular social network Pinterest has updated its iOS app and is now testing some, as yet, unreleased changes to its website layout.

Rarely do you see forces at work in the software market that are truly disruptive. The introduction of the Internet was one. It pretty much changed how all applications are designed while introducing entire classes of new applications to the market. Even rarer is to find three disruptive forces at the same time that work together to truly change the landscape of the software industry. 

       While it may not be the best-selling device or be the most used ecosystem, Apple can lay claim to iPhone being the most profitable smartphone on the market, and now the most used device for those accessing the mobile Internet. 

 While HP's Pavilion Chromebook is effectively one of Google's low-spec PCs cased in the usual Pavilion stylings, the message to Microsoft is clear, 'You aren't the only game in town.' And with Chromebook sales on the rise, it could be a smart move as Google's OS gains momentum.

Companies that fail to provide the customer experience demanded by today’s technology-savvy consumers risk getting hit where it hurts most -- their profits. The new Oracle Global Customer Experience Report highlights exactly how companies are falling short of modern customer experience benchmarks.

Customer experience is king these days, so what are the kind’s trends for 2013? A new report from Forrester Research says that customers will increasingly expect experiences to adapt to the context, companies will move closer to unified experiences across devices, and mobile is becoming people’s “remote control.” 

While we wait to see how BlackBerry Will promote the BB10, the new Star Trek movie already has an app, while Motorola, GoDaddy.com and others are putting up a heavy advertising presence among the car and beer adverts for this year's super-advertising-bowl-athon.

 We've covered plenty of PC, phone, tablet and other device launches recently, but can a mere games machine show the way forward for true home device and content integration? Can Sony's new console play nicely in a world of gadgets attempting to defend their own turf?

2012 ended on a high note for Facebook even after the company's rocky public launch early in the year, and the latest financial release shows the company now brings in nearly a quarter of its revenue from mobile.

Although Google has agreed to extend Google Sync support for new Windows Phone connections until July 31 of this year, Microsoft is not wasting any time in ensuring Windows Phone users can connect to Google services after that date.

Sorry, cord cutters. If you got rid of a Comcast subscription and instead watch lots of YouTube, Google is about to reach into your wallet because some of the most popular channels could be going to a paywall format.

 The latest test version of the Chromium browser has a neat new feature that could see the Google Now notifications from Android devices pass over to Google's desktop browser. 

Since the 1970s, the Super Bowl has been known as the granddaddy of all TV advertising opportunities, with companies ponying up huge bucks and devising elaborate and outrageous ads designed to stick in consumers’ heads long after they air. Increasingly, advertisers are seeing the Super Bowl as the granddaddy of all advertising opportunities on all channels, and tweaking ad design accordingly.

There's a lot of discussion about creating great customer experiences, but it's time we take some of the ideas and methodologies learned in that realm and apply them to creating a great employee experience, specifically, to the intranet.