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Research firm Gartner predicts a rosy outlook for software-as-a-service (SaaS), which predicts revenues will top $7.5 billion worldwide in 2009.
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Google and the authors and publishers with which it is trying to settle a five-year copyright feud ask the judge hearing the case for another delay so that they can make the deal more palatable for the Department of Justice. Legal eagle Michael Boni of Boni and Zack adds that the parties in the settlement have met with the DOJ as recently as Nov. 6. What this latest delay means for the planned December or January hearing date is unclear.
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RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9700 combines the solid horsepower and good quality that characterized the original Bold 9000 with a form factor similar to other recent BlackBerry releases. The Bold 9700--versions of which are available from T-Mobile and AT&T--works in concert with the latest enterprise back-end software to add more features for enterprise users, although some of those features are a little kludgy.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Only days after creating the VCE and its legal business entity, the shared-equity Acadia startup, to scope out solution packages and market the new vBlock cloud systems, the market-leading companies appear to be moving into other trendy and fertile IT farmlands: namely, virtual desktops, hosted applications and new storage options.
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, referring to an analyst report and other rumors that his company would release x86-compatible chips to challenge Intel and AMD, refuted that possibility, saying Nvidia was focused on expanding the reach of its graphics chips products. One analyst had suggested that Nvidia had been hiring ex-Transmeta engineers with the goal of producing x86 processors to protect itself against Intel and AMD, both of which are looking to integrate more graphics capabilities into their CPUs.
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VMware is rolling out View 4, the latest version of its desktop virtualization offering that leverages the company's vSphere 4 virtualization platform and the strong partnership VMware has with EMC and Cisco Systems. View 4 is designed to let businesses run their desktop virtualization environment as a managed service model, which VMware officials say will increase the user experience and scalability of desktop virtualization deployments while cutting TCO costs by as much as 50 percent. With such features as the PC over IP protocol and a strong ecosystem that includes Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM, VMware is looking to drive the adoption of desktop virtualization into the mainstream enterprise space, where IT administrators can see the benefits but are worried about acquisition costs, scalability and user experience, according to VMware officials.
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Cisco Systems Nov. 9 jumped into the hosted e-mail and enterprise social networking arenas, challenging Google, Microsoft, IBM and a legion of smaller startups. But what is new here? Guido Jouret, CTO of Cisco's emerging technologies group, explains how Cisco solutions such as Pulse and Show and Share are different from existing offerings from Cisco's competitors. In short, Cisco's network chops afford it integration opportunities that elude the other vendors.
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Based on tests of new beta versions, neither Firefox 3.6 nor Google Chrome 4.0 will be major steps forward for the browsers. The only significant new feature in the Chrome 4.0 beta is Bookmark Sync. The Firefox 3.6 beta boasts more new features than the Chrome 4.0 beta, but none are groundbreaking.
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Cisco Nov. 9 at its Cisco Collaboration Summit began its largest collaboration product launch to date. While the launch covers the usual Cisco strongholds -- IP phones to media servers to unified communications -- the company also rolled out hosted e-mail from its PostPath buy and enterprise social software. Cisco WebEx Mail is intended to compete with Google's Gmail, Zoho Mail, IBM LotusLive iNotes and Microsoft Exchange Online. Enterprise Collaboration Platform will battle IBM Lotus Connections and the swath of enterprise social software products from MindTouch, Socialtext, Jive Software and others.
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ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009. Microsoft Websites led the way, but 70 percent of the time spent on its sites was through Windows Live Messenger. Google came in at No. 2, with 9.3 percent of the minutes (2.5 billion hours). Yahoo was third with 6.3 percent of the minutes, or 1.7 billion hours, but dropped by 14 percent from its September 2008 share of almost 2 billion hours. Facebook nabbed the fourth spot, with 5 percent of the minutes, or 1.4 billion hours.
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News Analysis: Google again finds itself in a no-win situation, this time with Google Dashboard. Some claim Google collects too much data in Dashboard, and others say it doesn't provide enough. Dashboard summarizes the data from the Web services associated with a user's account. It will list how many Gmail conversations we have going, how many Google Docs we have, Google Calendar appointments and even Web history if we've enabled it. But it does not include detail Google collects on us from its server logs, cookies and ads.
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eBay settles lawsuits with Joltid and Joost in a $1.9 billion deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and paves the way for a group of investors to acquire the majority of the company. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who had earlier tried to buy Skype back from eBay, will join the investor group, contributing Joltid software and making a capital investment in exchange for a 14 percent stake in Skype. Silver Lake and fellow investors Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will grab 56 percent of Skype, with eBay retaining the remaining 30 percent.
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Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button, which blasts out tweets users are fond of to their followers in one fell swoop. This is a sensible alternative to making Twitterers copy, paste and tweet links they love, and add the names of the tweet authors with an RT (retweet) tag. Twitter also said it is experimentally tweaking its trending topics to help users find more relevant tweets. The idea is to thwart spammers, which are rampant on Twitter, littering the trends with porn-baiting tweets and other garbage.
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Caspio launches a search engine optimization (SEO) service and the latest version of cloud-based Web application platform Bridge Version 6.5, aimed at cost-conscious businesses.
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eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza was "saddled" with reviewing then-nascent Web technology when he started in the Labs. This was a lucky break for him, as he got to start working with Web technology very early in its development. And it's pretty safe to say that the the World Wide Web is one of the most important technologies of the century, let alone the last 25 years.
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A recent case seems to show that we can lose access to our e-mail accounts and other cloud-based apps for simply avoiding the kinds of e-mails that pretty much everyone would assume were spam.
Organizations need to take care to ensure that applications in the cloud are secure and compliant--and can be proven as such. Experts say the public cloud might not be suitable for some applications right now, but that providers will face increasing pressure to develop systems that can be used securely in a cloud computing environment.
Known in the past for introducing innovations that wouldn't appear in rivals for years, Opera continues to push browser boundaries--just not as much in Version 10 as in previous versions. That said, Opera 10 boosts performance on flaky connections, and offers interface and mail client improvements.
With Microsoft's Bing and Google's Chrome OS, each company made a move that was more characteristic of the other. Are the companies adopting each other's best or worst habits, and can the enterprise benefit from a Google-Microsoft morph?
By working to shift the center of application development to the Web, Google isn't only improving its own position, but is also doing Apple, the open-source community, Microsoft and the rest of us a big favor.
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