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Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

(Chris Kanaracus) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:00 GMT

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

(Jim Duffy) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:00 GMT

Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

IaaS: Renting on-demand technology

(Network World Staff) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:23:00 GMT

Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Insider (registration required)

Minn. executive branch picks Microsoft to improve email, collaboration

(Juan Carlos Perez) — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

The Executive Branch of the Minnesota state government uses cloud-hosted Microsoft email and collaboration software, first as part of BPOS and later, Office 365.

4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

(Juan Carlos Perez) — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:55:00 GMT

About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

Ellison, other top execs to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

(Chris Kanaracus) — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:49:00 GMT

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents.

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