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Should you pay the same amount to store non-critical data as you do to store critical data? Amazon (news, site ) today says no. The now books, now cloud computing company has introduced a new -- and significantly less expensive -- tier to their S3 cloud storage service.
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Got a Microsoft Office Live Workspace account? It's about to be upgraded to a Windows Live SkyDrive account, said the company today in an official blog post. If This Change Affects You: The switch, said Microsoft, is an effort to improve and simplify the customer experience for their Live services.
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With the launch of Office 2010, the business community is buzzing with the Office 2010 vs. Google Docs debate, but its still not entirely clear as to what is best for SMBs. Meanwhile, Sage launches cloud payment software for small companies.
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Microsoft officially took Office 2010 out of beta this week, so naturally the Web's reverberating with SharePoint this and SharePoint that. As a matter of course, competitors of all sizes have taken this opportunity to push their own office solutions, Google and Cisco included.
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The big news, if it really is news, this week will be the business launch of Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Everyone will be watching in the coming weeks to see what happens with Google Docs, while IBM adds text analytics for social media to SPSS’ Modeler.
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Only a couple of weeks after it went after local business dollars, Google is back with new tools for SMBs. And yes, a new study shows that SMBs are much more aggressive about taking on new technology than their larger counter parts.
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Could it be true? A social report from NetProspex says so, and Microsoft's Facebook-friendly Docs.com announcement certainly serves to buttress that notion.
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In an interesting turn of events, Microsoft made an announcement at this week’s Facebook developer conference. Fighting hard to stay afloat in a predominantly social world, Microsoft announced Docs.com, an app that will allow Facebook users to share and collaboratively edit MS Office Documents.
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Alfresco Software (news, site) has released Alfresco Community Edition 3.3. This version of their enterprise content management platform highlights content services and semantic web features. Alfresco Community 3.3 Features For those interested in kicking the tires on new and shiny features, version 3.
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Google made headlines yet again this week with their Docs overhaul. Referred to by some as the "Office killer," the platform now features a new infrastructure that allows it to look and act much more like traditional word processing software.
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This week the outcry over the demise of Office 2010 mobile beta was so great that Microsoft had to apologize. It looks like it will also be having problems with Google Docs. And Xerox is down but far from out.
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In a push toward heightened collaboration and cloud-based everything, Google today announced upcoming features and co-editing capabilities for Google Docs similar to those in Google Wave. A New Infrastructure "You shouldn’t have to give up any routine features when you switch to Web-based applications," began Anil Sabharwal on the official Google Docs blog announcement. We
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On Monday Google planted file transferring capabilities into its Web-based chat services. The feature is free of charge, file size limits, and headaches. An Old Friend File transfer, which has been a part of the Google Talk desktop client since 2006, is now available on Talk widgets within iGoogle and
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The upcoming Microsoft (news, site ) Windows Phone 7, might look all consumer friendly, but enterprises want and expect more, especially when it comes to how mobile devices will handle SharePoint.
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