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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.

Microsoft server and tool upgrades demand CIOs' attention

(Juan Carlos Perez, Chris Kanaracus) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:03:00 GMT

CIOs and IT directors tracking the barrage of major upgrades for Windows and Office also need to stay tuned to the refresh cycle for Microsoft's servers and tools, including Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio 11.

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.

Hands on with Facebook Camera for iPhone

(Lex Friedman) — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:08:00 GMT

Facebook on Thursday launched Camera, a new standalone iPhone app for browsing your friends' photos and sharing new ones of your own. Were Instagram owned by anyone else, it might be sweating bullets right now.

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).

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