Business Productivity
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Singapore gets Microsoft hosted suite
News Country is first in Asia to get Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, already launched in U.S. and Europe, at monthly fee of US$10 per seat.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., network, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, business productivity, Indonesia
Microsoft: Asia faster to embrace hosted services
News More companies in region expected to take up Microsoft's hosted messaging and collaboration products than those in United States, says company exec.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Mobile applications, Asia, business productivity, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, ISV, revenue, U.S.
Small firms in emerging markets up IT spend
News Fewer small businesses in markets such as China and India are feeling pinch from downturn, with 17 percent indicating budget increases, new research shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Personal Computers, Servers, Business, IT Budget, Small Business, business productivity, Server, Emerging Market, Germany
Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident
News Microsoft has apologized for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site.
Tags: Branding, business productivity, photograph, Web Site, technique, Web, Branding
BT to resell Microsoft's business cloud suite
News Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, including applications such as Exchange Online and Office Live Meeting, will be integrated with BT's 21CN network.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, business productivity, legacy system, software upgrade, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live, Mobile applications
Cloudy outlook sees Microsoft take Exchange, SharePoint online
News Microsoft's launch of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) represents its latest assault on the cloud computing market.
Tags: Web services, Cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., business productivity, Cloud computing, Deskless Worker Suite, Worker, e-mail, Outage
UK CIOs still plan investment despite tight budgets
News In the wake of the credit crunch, organizations' caution with IT budgets and discretionary spending could possibly extend to next year's budget planning.
Tags: IT strategy, Investments, IT Budget, Investment, Tool, business productivity, Steve Ranger, Highways Agency, CIO, U.K.
Microsoft readies pay-as-you-go business apps
News Enabling telecommuting is likely to be a selling point for the productivity and "deskless worker" tools in the Microsoft Online Services lineup.
Tags: Web services, Business applications, Software, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, Microsoft Corp., Security, business productivity, Houston, MSN Hotmail
Light cloud signals change of climate for IT
Insight perspective Light operating systems and cloud computing are the final nails in the coffin of traditional practices, says Bob Morris.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web sites, Web services, Development/design, Mobile Broadband, Device, Mobile Device, Cloud computing, Web, Netbook
Google, Zoho challenge Microsoft abroad, too
News In India and China, upstarts aim to erode Microsoft's dominance by delivering business productivity software that's cheaper and more accessible.
Tags: Business applications, Web sites, India, Sales, China, Web, Zoho
Social apps showing developers the money
News As platform providers rush to provide interoperability to attract developers, apps riding on platforms of Web giants such as Facebook enjoy highest demand.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Web 2.0, Single Sign-on, Google OpenSocial, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Developer, Web Application, Facebook Connect, API
Cisco guns for Microsoft in collaboration market
News Cisco is adding new functions in its WebEx service that could threaten Microsoft's own business collaboration efforts.
Tags: Investments, Market research, Web services, Marketing communications, Web servers, Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc., Service, e-mail, unified communications
The dawn of unified communications
Insight The recession is forcing businesses to search for ways to cut costs--and unified comms is one place many will start, says analyst.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile, Web Conferencing, PBX, IP, ThinkGrid, On-demand, IP network
Lenovo ThinkPad X300
Reviews The ThinkPad X300 breaks new ground by packing a broad display, a full-size keyboard and nearly every feature a mobile user needs into a sleek, lightweight case.
Tags: Battery, Toshiba Portege, Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, DVD, Notebook, IBM ThinkVantage, X300, ThinkPad X300, IBM ThinkPad
Microsoft nabs Visio for $1.3 billion
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