• Google steals march on Apple in music subscription

  Google beat Apple to the music subscription service punch this week, perhaps the doing of record labels who wanted to put Apple in its place, an analyst said

• SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

  Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

• Microsoft sends gamblin' Pete Rose to the plate in swing at Google Docs

  Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, calling its rival's online application suite, Google Docs, "too big a gamble."

• Platform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages

  Cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is for renting storage and compute capacity from a service provider, delivered via an Internet connection. Similarly, software as a service (SaaS) is for accessing applications that are hosted in the cloud.

• It's not the size of your data, it's how you use it

  Data -- whether it is defined as "big" or "little" -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest companies with the biggest budgets and most sophisticated IT staff. In essence, it's not the size of the data, but how you use it that really matters.

• Google weaves Larry Page's social strategy into Maps, Search

  It became clear at Google I/O this week that Google is quietly but assuredly implementing CEO Larry Page's strategy to use Google+ to transform the entire Google experience.

• Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open-source code

  Just about anyone in the office can introduce open-source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets.

• Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

  Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.

• Dissecting T-Mobile's 'uncarrier-like' plans

  Analysts offered divergent opinions of T-Mobile USA's "uncarrier" initiatives for no-contract service and low subsidies for mobile devices announced this week.

• Samsung offers barely a mention of Android amid Galaxy S4 hoopla

  Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S4 smartphone using the theme of a Broadway musical, but almost completely avoided any mention of the Android OS inside.

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