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PC shipments stink less, may prop up Microsoft's Q3 revenue

Microsoft will probably report better than expected Windows revenue when it issues its third-quarter earnings numbers on Oct. 24, according to estimates of PC shipments this week by research firm IDC. read more »

Best Buy does what Microsoft won't: Takes Surface tablets in trade

Microsoft won't buy back used first-generation Surface tablets, but its retail partner Best Buy will. read more »

Percona challenges Oracle with alternate MySQL release

Percona continues to nip at Oracle's heels, releasing a free version of the open-source MySQL 5.6 database with advanced features similar to ones in Oracle's paid enterprise edition. read more »

HP's Whitman pegs Microsoft as an 'outright competitor' over Surface

HP CEO Meg Whitman yesterday blamed part of her company's problems on competition from long-time partner Microsoft, making HP the U.S.'s largest OEM to publicly find fault with Redmond. read more »

'Barbie Dreamhouse' bug changes Mac, iPhone calendar's gaudy colors

A bug on Apple's iCloud servers -- the second in the last three months -- turned OS X and iOS user calendars into a dizzying palette of what one customer called 'Barbie Dreamhouse' colors. read more »

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In Depth

Splunk helps Home.com deliver personalised recommendations to property buyers

Home.com, one of the USA's largest online property search engines for buyers and renters, has deployed Splunk to not only improve operations but also create products that drive revenue for the business. read more »

WorldPay drives Splunk out of IT and into customer facing business roles

WorldPay, the payments processing company, is driving the use of Splunk out of the IT department and into the customer-facing areas of the business, to give them tools that its technical lead is describing as “management porn”. read more »

Marussia F1 Team moves from 'spreadsheet city' to Sage ERP

The Marussia Formula 1 team has embarked on a project to overhaul its backend processes, where it is moving from using time-consuming siloed spreadsheets to a single view ERP system provided by Sage, in a bid to boost race speed and performance. read more »

Exchanges must improve software or risk more Nasdaq-style outages

Following a week which has seen severe disruption to trading, experts claim that banks and exchanges are likely to continue to face IT related outages unless stronger measures are taken to improve the software underpinning trading systems. read more »

Have we really done with process optimisation?

An old mentor of mine said that if you want to sell something, tell a story around it. IT vendors do this all the time. Sometimes it’s a tale about how the product was developed, and on other occasions it’s a customer anecdote. Stories provide a way of putting the offering into context in a way the buyer can understand quickly and easily. read more »