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Next-Generation Unified Messaging
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For some, migration to unified messaging is a key component of VoIP plans. For others, voice messaging replacement has a new urgency and is being addressed separately. Many factors lead to this renewed interest: obsolescence of legacy voicemail systems, e-discovery and compliance rules, and the need for new capabilities to support remote workers. Finally, enterprises are looking to reduce the cost of managing complex disparate systems assembled by distributed purchasing or acquisition of other businesses.

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Following Google's offline access lead, Yahoo's Zimbra unit brings offline access to Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools. The software makes a fine alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Office despite uncertainty over Yahoo's future.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks up Facebook Connect but little else during a question and answer session with reporters. The rub is that services such as Connect, Google's Friend Connect and MySpace's Data Availability initiatives are the future of social networks.
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SAS Space Planning 5.11 focuses on collaboration, compliance and customer-centricity.
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Eqos 4.2 enhanced features include product testing, order management and user dashboards
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At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project.
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At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, says he doubts Microsoft would file a claim against Linux developers.
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Since attack code for the DNS protocol flaw discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky is now public, patching is even more important.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Garmin unveils its latest crossover GPS device, the Nuvi 500 series, at the British Automotive show in London.
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Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a "two-horse race" between Microsoft and Google.
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New VMware CEO Paul Maritz is planning to bring the virtualization company deeper into the cloud by providing the tools to create a virtual, flexible IT infrastructure for the enterprise and for hosting providers.
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Microsoft's plans to purchase DATAllegro could touch off similar buyouts by rivals such as Oracle and Hewlett-Packard as vendors look to expand their data management capabilities. The DATAllegro buyout is an effort to strengthen Microsoft's position in the data warehousing market.
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Sybase remains bullish on its database business after posting a 38 percent year-over-year increase in database license revenue, eclipsing estimated gains by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft in the relational database market.
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Indian firms are using the knowledge they are gaining by working on IT projects to evolve in a way that will allow them to compete with IBM and Accenture on business consulting.
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At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft’s relevance as Linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape.
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