Google Apps, once a leader, falls behind cloud app rivals

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	Google Apps, once a leader, falls behind cloud app rivals When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses. But it's fallen behind rival suites from IBM, Cisco and Microsoft and needs to step up its game to remain a player, say analysts. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Reach Your IT Goals with Cisco Learning Get comprehensive e-learning for CCNA Routing and Switching, Cisco IOS labs, premium learning subscriptions, and more. Find Cisco authorized self-study to fit your learning style, on the Cisco Learning Network Store . In this Issue Samsung takes baby steps in touting Tizen OS to developers Smartwatches and other wearables offer big development potential Mozilla releases 10 patches, five critical, for Firefox Top U.S. spies defend surveillance of foreign leaders Does Google's floating data center plan hold water? Lenovo claims battery life crown with new Yoga tablets Twitter gets more visual with photo, video previews Tom Wheeler confirmed as new FCC chairman MongoDB support firm says intruders may have accessed databases Some users grumble about Twitter's photo previews Cloud-based SMB network startup adds app store for services Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub Richi Jennings: Lenovo Yoga Tablet: "Way better than an iPad" RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google IT Professionals Deploy Chrome browser for your company and customize 100+ policies. Manage updates, compatibility with older apps and more. www.google.com/chrome Samsung takes baby steps in touting Tizen OS to developers The open source Tizen mobile operating system is one of the most visible examples that Samsung isn't completely dependent on the Android mobile OS. Read More   Smartwatches and other wearables offer big development potential The future's bright for wearable devices, even if it's a little foggy right now, developers at the first Samsung Developers Conference were told Tuesday. Read More   Mozilla releases 10 patches, five critical, for Firefox Mozilla released 10 patches for three versions of its Firefox browser on Tuesday, five of which are considered critical and could be used to remotely install malicious code. Read More   Top U.S. spies defend surveillance of foreign leaders   U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday defended surveillance of other countries' leaders, saying such efforts are common practice across the world's intelligence agencies. Read More   Does Google's floating data center plan hold water?   With speculation swirling that two mysterious barges on either side of the U.S. are evidence that Google's working on floating data centers, analysts say the company would have a lot of obstacles to overcome. Read More   Lenovo claims battery life crown with new Yoga tablets Lenovo is claiming that its new Yoga tablets will offer 18 hours of battery life when browsing the web, which would be the longest when compared to other tablets. Read More   WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Five Tips for Improving Customer Experience This paper conveys how the pressure to increase customer satisfaction metrics with less funding will increase as companies look for new ways to differentiate their services and reduce customer churn. Learn More. Learn More. Twitter gets more visual with photo, video previews Twitter became an Internet phenom as a tool for posting short text messages, but now it also wants to feature multimedia content more prominently. Read More   Tom Wheeler confirmed as new FCC chairman The U.S. Senate confirmed Tuesday the nomination of a new chairman to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Read More   MongoDB support firm says intruders may have accessed databases MongoHQ, which provides hosting and support for the open-source Mongo database, said attackers may have accessed several of its customers' databases earlier this week. Read More   Some users grumble about Twitter's photo previews Some Twitter users are complaining about a change that puts photo previews front and center in their streams, and offering advice to others on how to turn it off. Read More   Cloud-based SMB network startup adds app store for services Startup Pertino plans to flesh out its cloud-based network service with additional services such as security and deep-packet inspection, which it will sell through an online app store. Read More   Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub   Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization's data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce analysis. Read More   Richi Jennings: Lenovo Yoga Tablet: "Way better than an iPad" Lenovo is proud to announce its new tablets. Release date: Today. The latest shiny kit to wear the Yoga badge is thin, light, with super-long batter life, and an innovative, multi-mode design. But not everyone is enamored with the thing. In fact, you'll wonder if some of them were even testing the same device! Read More
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