Box's note-taking tool available for iOS users
Box has added Notes, its lightweight note-taking tool, to the iPad and iPhone versions of its cloud storage application.
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Microsoft cuts OneDrive prices, increases capacity
Microsoft will dramatically increase capacity and lower prices for OneDrive, increasing pressure on other cloud storage providers and also sweetening the deal for prospective and current Office 365 customers.
Office 365 customers can sign up to get new features early
Microsoft will give Office 365 customers the option to receive new and improved features considered to be significant before they are made generally available.
Box buys cloud storage startup for streaming technology
Box has acquired Streem, a cloud storage and file-sharing startup that specializes in large media files and that has developed innovative technology for streaming that type of content.
New Apps security feature causes Google user confusion
Google confused end users and triggered a spike in support calls to Apps admins with the initial rollout of a security feature for the cloud suite.
Skype app for iPhone due out from Microsoft today
Microsoft promises that a revamped Skype app for the iPhone will be significantly better than the current version, although it may be too late for users who have long since switched to other options.
Small businesses get umbrella tool for managing their Google presence
Google hopes to simplify how local businesses manage their information on its sites and apps by consolidating a variety of scattered tasks under a new online service.
Badgeville aims to make child's play out of software deployment
Badgeville is promising buyers of the new edition of its gamification software that it will be easy to integrate it with four popular enterprise social collaboration products.
Google gives Apps admins a deeper dive on usage info
Google has redesigned the reports section of the Apps admin console, giving IT staff a lot more details about who's been using the online apps suite and how.
Microsoft upgrades OneDrive photo management
Microsoft has added photo management features to OneDrive as it fights cloud storage rivals Dropbox, Apple, Google and Box for consumers and business customers by lowering prices and increasing capabilities.
Siemens' Unify to cut staff in half
Unify, a joint venture between Siemens and the Gores Group, will cut 50 per cent of its staff and refocus its product roster away from hardware, following a shift in the overall unified communications market toward software and Cloud services.
Microsoft: Dynamics CRM ain't chopped liver, despite Salesforce tie-up
Microsoft remains committed to trouncing Salesforce.com in the CRM market.
IDC: Cloud, software options deflate sales of enterprise video systems
Sales of video conferencing and telepresence hardware systems are declining, hurt by an increase in cloud and software-based options that often are cheaper and simpler to deploy, according to an IDC study.
Microsoft and Salesforce.com to link wares in global partnership
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have become corporate buddies, pledging to integrate their flagship products in what they're calling a "global, strategic partnership".
Quip revamps mobile word processor with new publishing, search features
Quip has revamped its Web and mobile word processor, giving it new publishing and search capabilities, as the startup pushes ahead with its quixotic pursuit to disrupt cloud productivity app rivals like Microsoft and Google.