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	Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now In this Issue SAP takes steps to simplify pricing and licensing Oracle CEO Larry Ellison turns 70 with no retirement in sight Richi Jennings: China launches homegrown OS to compete with pirated US software Opera Mini becomes default browser for Microsoft's fading feature phones Robert L. Mitchell: Quicken for Mac 2015: One Step Forward Back-to-school tech guide 2013 WHITE PAPER: CDW The Challenge of a Wider Network As virtualization becomes more popular on wide area networks, IT administrators are finding that virtual machines (VMs) are touchy about latency and packet loss. Learn More SAP takes steps to simplify pricing and licensing It took some time and considerable internal effort, but SAP says it has made good on a pledge to simplify its software pricing and licensing model. Read More Oracle CEO Larry Ellison turns 70 with no retirement in sight Most people start thinking about retirement when they turn 70, if they haven't already called it a career. Not Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who passed that milestone Sunday. Read More Richi Jennings: China launches homegrown OS to compete with pirated US software China's OS: If you can't beat 'em, ban 'em. China -- satisfied it has conquered all Earth based manufacturing -- is now on a long march towards dominating the software market. Or at least it hopes anyway. Actions such as banning Windows 8 and Google services is a start, but it would probably sting foreign software companies more if most of the apps running on Chinese computers weren't likely pirated copies in the first place. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers thumb through a little red software manual.   Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Securing BYOD Mobile computing is becoming so ubiquitous that people no longer bat an eye seeing someone working two devices simultaneously. Individuals and organizations are responding to the capabilities and flexibility that mobile devices provide. Read Now Opera Mini becomes default browser for Microsoft's fading feature phones Opera Software and Microsoft have struck a deal to replace Nokia's Xpress browser with Opera Mini on Microsoft's dying line of feature phones. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Quicken for Mac 2015: One Step Forward As a longtime user of Quicken I was intrigued when the folks at Intuit's Quicken group called to pre-brief me on an new product announcement. I was hoping for a SaaS version of Quicken. What I got was an improved version of Quicken or the Mac, announced today. Read More Back-to-school tech guide 2013 tktktk Read More
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