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10 May 2013
News: PageUp People app goes up into Azure cloud

PageUp People said hosting its CareerPath application in the cloud is saving the company $130,000 per annum.
News: Go digital for last-second gifts this Mother's Day

I hate to break this to you, but Mother's Day is just a few short days away. And unless you enjoy greater control over the properties of space and time than the rest of us mere mortals, the window of opportunity to find, buy, and ship mom a present is slamming shut.
News: RIAA expands gold and platinum record awards to streamed music

In another sign that music listening is expanding beyond the limits of CDs and digital purchases, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Thursday that it would recognize music and music videos streamed from on-demand services as part of its Gold & Platinum award program. These services include Mog, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, and Xbox Music, as well as video streaming services such as MTV.com, Vevo, Yahoo Music, and YouTube. This is the first time that the program has recognized tracks in a non-sales format.
09 May 2013
News: Box to revamp document viewing with Crocodoc acquisition

Box has acquired Crocodoc in a move to significantly improve the way documents are rendered for viewing on its enterprise storage and file sharing service.
News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.
News: Microsoft says Yammer sales are booming

With the backing of its new parent company, Yammer more than tripled its revenue year on year in the quarter that ended in March.
News: Microsoft Patch Tuesday targets multitude of Internet Explorer faults

Microsoft is issuing critical security bulletins this Patch Tuesday that affect all versions of Internet Explorer and deal with an exploit that attackers are actively working.
News: Google boosts Glass with Google+, search upgrades

Google Glass developers and early adopters should be getting a software upgrade within the next week that adds tweaks to Google+, Gmail and search.
News: Galaxy S4's U.S. version needs added image processor for eye-tracking

Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition.
News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC

She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.
News: Tullow Oil reduces PC power use

Tullow Oil, the oil and gas exploration and production group, has deployed Verismic's PC Power Management software to "significantly reduce" the power usage of its PCs and laptops worldwide.
News: Intel acquires two software companies

Intel has acquired two software companies as it continues to build its burgeoning portfolio to include more tools to write and manage programs and interfaces.
News: Hands on: Pixelmator launches smart, significant new upgrade

Pixelmator on Thursday released version 2.2 of its $15 Mac App Store-only image editing app. "Don't be confused by versioning numbers," the developers wrote on their blog, because "it's a major upgrade."
News: All about Reminders

Whether it's to pay the bills, replace furnace filters, or take the ferret to the vet for its annual cleaning, we all need reminding from time to time. Yes, you can accomplish this through a calendar event and alarm, but a calendar is too broad a tool for this kind of thing. What you really need is the digital equivalent of a scrap of paper onto which you write notes and shove into a handy pocket. Such is exactly the purpose of Mountain Lion's Reminders application.
News: 4 Affordable Small Business CRM Options

Small businesses don't need expensive customer relationship software to manage customer records and important business data. Here are four inexpensive CRM options that offer the functionality you need and also integrate with the social sites your customers and prospects use.
News: Windows XP migration worries exaggerated by 'dead' applications

Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has suggested.
News: eBay employs big data platforms to drive competitive edge

Trying to make sense of the estimated 100 terabytes of new data received every day to meet changing customer expectations and keep a competitive edge has led eBay to start using big data platforms.
News: Security practices wanting in virtual machine world, survey finds

Organizations leaning too heavily on virtualization vendors for protection, BeyondTrust finds
News: Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.
News: Estimates peg 59M Windows 8 devices in use

Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used?