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Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Skype Breaks Records, Traffic Grows by 44 Percent Skype now accounts for one-third of all global phone traffic. Yammer Has 7 million Users as SharePoint Integration Continues The Microsoft...

Today’s guest blogger is Faisal Zafar, director of operations for LiveRoute, a Dubai-based technology company that delivers IT solutions to companies throughout the Middle East. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, LiveRoute was the first cloud solution provider in the Middle East region. From the...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft: Office 365 Sees Growing Adoption in India Indian firms of all sizes are choosing Office 365 over Google Apps. Google App Store Policy Raises Privacy Concerns Google’s privacy...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. 7 Reasons Why You Should Buy Microsoft’s New Version of Office Seven reasons why people will want to buy the new Office 365 Home Premium Edition subscription plan. Toyota North America...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. A Fresh New Office Finds a Place in the Cloud Microsoft “has a winning program on its hands” with its newest version of Office. Office 2013 is the Best Office Yet With Office...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Nonprofit Saves $40,000, Boosts IT Efficiency 62 Percent with Cloud Collaboration Solution Homeboy Industries increases IT efficiency by 62 percent and saves an estimates US $40,000 in capital...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Retailers Giving a Lift to Microsoft's Cloud Ambitions Enjoying recent successful deals with J.C Penney Co. and British retailer Tesco PLC, Microsoft “is betting Office 365 is the right...

Today’s guest blogger is Mo Khan, managing director of Xelleration, a consulting and technology solutions company and a Microsoft Gold Certified partner that provides business intelligence and office automation solutions. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., the firm works with businesses of all sizes...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. jcpenney Aims for the Cloud with Microsoft Office 365 With 1,000 stores in all 50 U.S. states, retailer jcpenney moves to Office 365 to enhance collaboration among its workers. Tesco signs...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. The Windy City Teams with Microsoft on Cloud Strategy The City of Chicago moves 30,000 employees to Office 365, joining a growing number of state and local governments that are taking advantage...

Today’s guest blogger is André Henrique Buss, owner of GW Computadores, a technology consulting firm that specializes in cloud-based infrastructures. Headquartered in Blumenau, Brazil, the firm works with small- and medium-size businesses in Brazil. Today, there really isn’t a good...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Good Tidings to our Office 365 Customers As the new year approaches, Microsoft thanks its customers for choosing Office 365. MachPanel 4.5 will Support Microsoft Exchange, Lync and SharePoint...

The Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr observed that technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. He also predicted that the exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Microsoft Office is a testament to this staggering pace of technological...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Small businesses can now get 90 day free trial of Office 365 Small businesses with up to 10 users can now get a 90-day free trial of the Microsoft Office 365 suite. FICCI migrates to Microsoft...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Dixons Rolls Out Office 365 to 20,000 Users The electrical retailer Dixons Retail to roll out Office 365 to 20,000 users across the UK, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong. Microsoft...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Webjet Adopts Office 365, Windows Azure Webjet, Australia’s largest online travel booking website, selects Office 365 “because it differentiates itself from the competition with...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Barilla Selects Microsoft Office 365 Italian food company Barilla Group selects Office 365 to manage the interaction among employees in its branch offices, production plants and on the road...

As part of the Real World with Cloud Services series, we spoke to Shane Pearce, Manager of Information Services at A.P. Eagers, about why the company chose to replace its existing on-premises email system with Microsoft Exchange Online through Microsoft Office 365 instead of Google Mail. Here’s...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Visaka Industries Deploys Microsoft Office 365 Visaka Industries switches from Google Apps to Office 365 because “Microsoft Office 365 clearly out-shines Google Apps not only in ease...

Retailer Ticketmonster, Inc. needed to establish a desirable IT governance system for companywide communications and decided to replace Google Apps with an on-premise email server. We recently spoke to Lee Hyung-jun, Head of the IT Unit at Ticketmonster, to learn why: Q: Please...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. SharePoint 2013 To 'Supercharge' Enterprise Social Networking In his keynote talk at the SharePoint Conference 2012, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper describes how social networking...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Skype Launches New Online Platform for Small Businesses Skype launches the public Skype in the workspace, a new online platform for small businesses to instantly connect with potential customers...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Just Scored A Huge Win In The Cloud Microsoft’s new $9.8 million, four-year contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demonstrates that Office 365 is “a...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Windows 8 review: A big, beautiful, slightly shaky step forward Windows 8: “The touchscreen actions are a huge gain for usability, and the interface is gorgeous.” Microsoft Surface...

Today’s guest blogger is Reed Wilson, founder and president of Palmetto Technology Group (PTG). PTG is a Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner and Tier 3 Cloud Champion that provides business technology solutions that enhance productivity and increase profitability (including Microsoft Office 365...