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Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

(Stephen Lawson) — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:31:00 GMT

Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

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.

Sony brings streaming music service to the iPhone

(Jay Alabaster) — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:37:00 GMT

Sony released an iPhone app to access its streaming Music Unlimited service, part of its efforts to expand its online platforms to devices from rival manufacturers.

Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera

(Cameron Scott) — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:56:00 GMT

Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company closes its deal to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

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).

Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

(John Ribeiro) — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:35:00 GMT

The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

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