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News about platforms

• Samsung's Artik Cloud to challenge Microsoft's Azure in IoT

  Samsung's service for businesses will support a wide range of devices and third-party cloud services

• Novell Moonlight upgrade tracks Silverlight improvements

  Beta version of Moonlight 4 is set, offering out-of-browser capabilities as well as hardware-accelerated 3D graphics

• Oracle highlights Solaris Unix plans

  Solaris 11, due next year, will feature improvements in availability, security, and virtualization

• First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish

  Microsoft's cloud productivity suite has big ambitions, but feels poorly integrated and may leave admins wanting more

• Smartphone online usage climbing rapidly, with iPhone in the lead

  Average monthly online usage by smartphone users will exceed 700MB by 2015, study says

• New MacBook Air: The best ever

  Apple's spectacularly responsive new MacBook Air is the best Air yet -- and might be the best MacBook, period

Features about platforms

• First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves

  Microsoft's next browser closes in on Chrome and Firefox with improvements in graphics rendering, HTML5 compatibility, security, and JavaScript performance