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	Microsoft kicks off sales of lower-priced Office subscription in bid for iPad dollars Five weeks after announcing a lower-cost subscription to Office, Microsoft today started selling Office 365 Personal to consumers. Read More   : EMC Corporation Managing Big Data Growth eGuide In this eGuide, CIO, Computerworld, Network World, InfoWorld, and IT World examine the challenge of managing big data growth and offer news, opinions, and tips for overcoming some of these hurdles. Read on to learn how best to manage big data growth in your organization. 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Read More   First-to-market means diddly when it comes to smartwatches The old wisdom that "first-to-market" technology products will win out gets thrown out the window when it comes to smartwatches and some other wearables. Read More   After first day problems, robotic sub resumes search for Flight 370 The autonomous underwater robot that began searching for the missing Malaysian airliner Monday ran into trouble on its initial mission but is expected to try again today. Read More   SAP users rattle sabers over fees for user-friendly Fiori apps SAP user groups are stepping up pressure on the vendor over the fees charged for its user-friendly Fiori applications, saying they should be included as part of the substantial annual maintenance costs customers already pay, particularly given SAP's dismal track record with interfaces for its Business Suite ERP software. Read More   VMware promises Heartbleed patches for affected products by the weekend VMware started patching its products against the critical Heartbleed flaw that puts encrypted communications at risk, and plans to have updates ready for all affected products by Saturday. Read More   Streaming services may rescue the Pay TV market IPTV is being added to lower priced bundles by digital TV providers to lure in a younger generation of subscribers and give the market a needed boost after years of declining subscriptions. Read More   Twitter brings the data back in-house with Gnip buy Aiming to play a bigger role in analyzing tweets and sharing the resulting insights with advertisers and other businesses, Twitter has acquired Gnip, its partner for the past few years. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   EMA's Look at BMC Remedy OnDemand Increasingly, enterprise organizations are moving to the cloud for IT Service Management (ITSM)—but is cloud delivery right for your business? Learn More Google details its Project Ara modular smartphone For a potentially revolutionary smartphone, it wasn't the best start. Read More   Canonical's Ubuntu 14.04 focuses on the long haul As organizations move in-house systems to the cloud, Canonical wants them to consider switching their OSes as well. Read More   Tip of the Hat: An iWatch won't affect Apple's long-term success Some Wall Street analysts are warning that Apple needs to unveil its post-iPhone and iPad products to assure it can survive and thrive in the years ahead. Read More   Google steps up competition with Amazon, expands Cloud Platform to Asia Google has expanded its Cloud Platform to include locally hosted computing capacity, storage and data bases for the Asia-Pacific region. Read More   Motorola's enterprise business sold for $3.45B to Zebra Technologies Enterprise asset intelligence company Zebra Technologies said it is acquiring Motorola Solutions' enterprise business for $3.45 billion. Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple's anti-Android Holy War gets real You don't get plans like these by "benchmarking" competitors. You get them by ignoring them. Read More   JR Raphael: Samsung's real challenge: developing a sense of focus, taste, and restraint Samsung's Android devices may sell well, but commercial success and optimal user experience don't automatically go hand in hand. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign bites the dust. Or does it? Microsoft's controversial anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign finally seems to be at an end, with a Microsoft corporate vice president saying the company is "done with the campaign." But not so fast -- the Scroogled site still lives, and Microsoft has left itself wiggle room. Is Scroogled really done? Read More
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