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• Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

  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.

• Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

  By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

  A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

• Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 14:56

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.

• Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 13:53

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.

• Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

  With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  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).

• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions

  By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 16:41

  Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.

• Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  By Michael Cooney | 24 May, 2012 13:33

  IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

• Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

  By Cameron Scott | 24 May, 2012 00:01

  Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.

• Wolfram expands into system modeling

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 21:04

  Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation, the company announced Wednesday.

• How to design a successful RACI project plan

  By Bob Kantor | 23 May, 2012 11:00

  Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that has either been effectively addressed or missed/messed up.

• Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56

  Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.