Three applications stemming from the purchase of M5 in May are helping raise revenue for Acumatica and its resellers. Jon Roskill, CEO of the Bellevue, Wash.-based software company told research analysts recently that the company had expected the products would boost average selling prices by 6 percent to 7 percent. "And it's coming in ahead of that," Roskill commented.

Infor reported a 9.5-percent increase in revenue for the first quarter ended July 31. But the software company this week reported a loss of $25.4 million, compared to net income of $57.5 million in last year's corresponding period. A big factor in this was currency change.

There has been a lot of press about the tendency of batteries in Samsung's devices to catch on fire. My Galaxy Note burst into flames but fortunately I was able to call the fire department. I guess they'll have to tie fire extinguishers into the Internet of Things. Or this could be a chance to develop a notebook with a sprinkler button.

Acumatica pumped out its latest edition of its software with an emphasis on CRM, dashboards and a new API. The cloud and desktop software vendor this week also used the roll out in Boston, Mass., as a chance to bring in some reseller prospects—whose names shall remain private, for the moment. New in Acumatica 6 is an integrated CRM-Acumatica add-in for Microsoft Outlook.