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	Microsoft broadens Azure's reach by marrying IaaS and PaaS It's time to bid farewall to Microsoft Azure's humble beginnings as a mere PaaS. The big Redmond machine is lifting the curtain on previews of new services and updates today, aimed at injecting a healthy dose of IaaS capabilities into its cloud platform while broadening support for various OSes and development platforms. Read More WHITE PAPER: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > In this Issue Ellison: Oracle will deliver world's 'most comprehensive cloud' How to determine if your LinkedIn password has been compromised Is it a laptop? A tablet? Whatever, PC makers just hope you'll buy it Apple tries to stop U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy S III WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Cloud Single Sign-On: Build or Buy? With the SaaS market approaching $21.3 billion by 2015 , the demand for SaaS applications is accelerating and SaaS providers continue to face software business challenges. Learn More! Ellison: Oracle will deliver world's 'most comprehensive cloud' Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer "the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth," during a webcast event. "It's been a long time coming," Ellison said of the Oracle Public Cloud, which encompasses Oracle's suite of Fusion Applications delivered as both SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) features, including the Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. It's also the home of Oracle Social Network, the company's foray into Facebook-like collaboration tools for enterprises. Read More How to determine if your LinkedIn password has been compromised As reports have swirled that approximately 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords have been leaked, security experts have been trying to figure out what happened, as well as checking to see if their own passwords have been compromised. Read More Is it a laptop? A tablet? Whatever, PC makers just hope you'll buy it One thing apparent at Computex this week is that computer makers really aren't sure what users want in a PC, and they're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. There might never have been such a wide variety of computer styles on display as there are here in Taipei. Many use Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS, or the Windows RT version for ARM-based processors. Others run Google's Android software, though that OS has been less visible this year than last. Read More Apple tries to stop U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy S III Apple has asked a court in California for a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone, ahead of its U.S. launch, claiming the device infringes at least two of its patents. Samsung said earlier this month that the Galaxy S III will be available in the U.S. starting this month from five carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular. The smartphone was launched in May in the U.K. Read More
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