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Spending on Enterprise 2.0 messaging and collaboration technologies will take a hit, according to Forrester Research. The research company says cutthroat competition and oversaturation of blogs, wikis, mashups and RSS feeds will curb spending, but predicts growth for mashups. At what point will Forrester have to factor the dragging economy into the slowdown in spending on anything from Enterprise 2.0 to enterprise applications?
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As the economy gets shakier each day, workers everywhere are concerned about losing their jobs. Here are 10 steps the corporate techie toiling away in the server room or the help desk can take to help keep his or her job.
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Microsoft shares more detail about its “Oslo” modeling platform, naming the components and its delivery vehicle. The company will deliver Community Technology Previews (CTPs) of the Oslo technology at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.
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Zoho Mail now works offline courtesy of Google Gears, the latest application development for Zoho's messaging and collaboration software suite. Zoho Writer beat Google Docs to offline access last year, proving that the smaller Zoho is more nimble than the Google Apps empire. Offline access for applications is key at a time when knowledge workers are traveling and unable to secure Web connections to work.
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It turns out there are several so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you ahead of time about archiving products. There are five categories of these "secrets": scalability, data protection, performance, data migration and energy efficiency. If you're in the market, you need to read this first.
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Symantec and Google didn't get Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's memo that SAAS and cloud computing are overhyped. Symantec bought security SAAS provider MessageLabs for a bundle while Google simplified pricing for its security SAAS. Web services security for enterprise applications and messaging and collaboration tools is alive and well.
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Microsoft plans to release 11 security bulletins, four rated critical, for its October Patch Tuesday. The security bulletins cover multiple Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office Excel.
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Meet the mobile wannabes. They will not be road warriors but will insist on mobile support from employers. Already, nearly a third of smart phone users expense all or some of their monthly bills for wireless voice services to their employers, while 40 percent expense the cost of their wireless data access to their company. Forrester estimates that by 2012, 73 percent of the work force will be considered mobile.
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Oracle agrees to buy project portolio management software provider Primavera to better compete with HP, IBM and CA. Ovum analyst David Mitchell says Primavera will help Oracle's prodigious enterprise applications customer base tie up loose ends in their projects.
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IBM posted a stronger-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and stood by its full-year outlook, defying worries that the financial crisis would hurt demand for its computer products and services. IBM shares, which had fallen 5.33 percent to close at $90.55 on the New York Stock Exchange, rose to $96 in after-hours trading. Shares of Dell rose nearly 2 percent, while shares of Oracle and Microsoft rose about 1 percent. Other major technology companies such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard Co were barely changed.
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Opera Software's Opera 9.6 Web Browser release includes new features for optimized e-mail, RSS for the Opera 9.6 Web browser's built-in e-mail and messaging client. Opera Software's Opera 9.6 Web Browser offers low-bandwidth option for slow connections, a magazine style preview of RSS fields and custom search engine settings and typed browser history available in any Opera desktop browser.
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EMC didn't get to be the world's largest, most successful data storage company by standing pat. In fact, the huge corporation has swallowed no fewer than 40 other companies -- for their technology and their talent -- in the last five years. Here are some facts you probably didn't know about this remarkable organization.
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Yahoo is looking to boost the messaging and collaboration capabilities in Yahoo Calendar by synchronizing it with calendar utilities from Google, Microsoft, AOL, Mozilla and Apple. The application development feat is part of Yahoo's plans to bolt better Web services into a smarter inbox for its millions of Web mail users.
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Although the Opera 9.6 browser improvements are mostly consumer-oriented, the new release also features improvements for developers. Opera Software officials say compatibility and stability are Opera 9.6's biggest benefits to developers.
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Eclipse and Java are key components of Android, Google's mobile operating system. While it's an OS meant to challenge the likes of Microsoft Windows Mobile and Apple iPhone, Android also promises to be an important development platform.
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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1 offers users a clean and attractive user interface,but it's based on a 4-year-old version of OpenOffice.org. Lotus Symphony 1.1 lacks a lot of the features and support offered in such competitive products as Microsoft Office.
Cardscan's Executive, the midprice product in its line of three, puts contacts in order.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g may well be the best collection of tools for monitoring the overall health and well-being
of the enterprise software giant's various services and systems, but the cost of the product's many add-ons quickly adds up.
Users may have difficulty getting started with
e-mail-oriented Chandler.
Review: While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts from Office 2008's basic mandate for providing Windows-world compatibility for the Mac.
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