Rackspace, the major public cloud provider, is not ignoring private clouds. The company updated its OpenStack-powered private cloud framework, which customers can download for free to spin up private clouds analogous to Rackspace's public cloud in their own data centers behind their own firewalls.

Google confirmed that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser.

Microsoft has upgraded its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already termed somewhat confusing.

The components of the Office 365 suites for businesses, like the web-hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync, have been upgraded to the latest 2013 code base of the products.

In addition, Microsoft has introduced three new configurations of the suite.

Orange has announced three new affordable Android phones for Europe. The carrier offers a choice of wallet-friendly 4G with the Orange Lumo, cheap and cheerful smart phone smarts with the Orange Nivo, and a big screen without the big price tag with the Orange San Remo.

A l’heure où SFR affine sa stratégie services et cloud, l’offre hébergée de Bouygues Telecom prend elle aussi du volume.

Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for $1.2 billion.

Following its recently announced "Making Networks Smarter" vision and its NUViA cloud services launch, GENBAND is in the headlines again with a new unified communications alliance formed between GENBAND and Samsung Mobile. The two companies are partnering to offer an "Office on the Go" solution on Samsung Mobile's SAFE devices.

Cisco Tuesday introduced small cell hardware and intelligent software designed to help carriers and enterprises improve wireless connections over hybrid networks made of 3G and 4G cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.

The products, which Cisco plans to demonstrate at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, are intended to help networks grapple with a projected 13-fold increase in the size of the mobile Internet by 2017, Cisco officials said.

Dropbox inscrit son avenir dans le BtoB. Dropbox apporte une nouvelle pierre à l’édifice de son offre collaborative, redessinée autour d’une interface d’administration pensée pour offrir aux administrateurs davantage de visibilité sur l’environnement de travail.

A l’heure de lever le rideau sur le cru 2013 de ses solutions antivirus, Avira fait du marché des petites entreprises un terrain de conquête prioritaire.

Pour se positionner plus sensiblement sur ce segment porteur dont l’informatique est devenue un moteur de croissance, avec son lot d’enjeux sécuritaires, l’éditeur allemand intègre la dimension du cloud comme garante d’une souplesse dans la protection des postes de travail.