Dropbox has bought CloudOn, a vendor that focused on easing the creation and editing of documents on mobile devices. Cloudon’s co-editing tools integrated with file sync-and-share services including but not limited… Read more »
Windows and Office, locked at the hip, drove Microsoft’s hugely profitable software business. Now the company is starting to decouple the dynamic duo. Read more »
ScratchJr is a programming language customized to help very young kids build interactive games and storage. Now a new iPad app brings it to that audience. Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon pushes AWS Marketplace as a destination for IT buyers; Apple and IBM bury past differences to bolster iPhones/iPads in the enterprise. Read more »
Voice-controlled software; content synced across devices; location-aware applications; tablets — Microsoft was touting all these things in 2000. So what happened? Read more »
Updated: New AWS Simple Notification Service lets devs automate push notifications to iOS, Google and — oh yes — Amazon devices using one API. Read more »
CIO Joanne Kussuth says the “who gets a bigger IT budget” kerfuffle, is a waste of time and energy when C-evel execs would be better off honing their people skills. Read more »
Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has really big, plans to put Ubuntu on your smartphone, on your tablet and (via OpenStack). What he doesn’t offer is details on revenue. Read more »