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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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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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The work force is fast becoming a mobile one, accessing data, applications, e-mail and schedules officially and unofficially for work and personal uses. Here's a look at the numbers behind the trend as users add mobile devices and applications to their tool belt.
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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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ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden says smart phones such as the T-Mobile G1 that are based on Google's Android operating system for mobile and wireless devices could push smart phones into standardization. Perhaps, but Apple's iPhone will continue to be a big seller even as Android, Symbian, RIM and other mobile operating systems get their share of the market. Will customers recognize a standard when they see one? I don't believe so, which makes the standardization moot unless the carriers embrace it.
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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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IT organizatoins are looking to reduce costs while increasing productivity, and so are looking to unified communications to meet these goals. New technology and financing options can help companies do just that.
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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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Touch-screen user interface maker Synaptics says it will provide a custom module for Research In Motion's upcoming touch-screen BlackBerry Storm smart phone. RIM's BlackBerry Storm is expected later in the fall of 2008.
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Wikipedia creator and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales shares his philosophy of competition in the search engine market. The comments come as Wikia is taking the step toward augmenting its search results by integrating core Web services from Digg, Twitter and other popular Web sites.
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Symantec has agreed to buy MessageLabs for roughly $695 million. The purchase is aimed at expanding Symantec's software-as-a-service business. Founded in 1999, MessageLabs specializes in Web and messaging security.
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Wikia launches WISE, an API that allows programmers to write widgets to pull content from Twitter, Digg, Creative Commons, Yelp and other sites into Wikia Search results. The application development is designed to improve Wikia Search results, which will improve the user experience for visitors.
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RIM's anti-iPhone campaign begins with the introduction of the BlackBerry Storm mobile smart phone, directly aimed at the consumer market and intended to be a serious challenger to the iPhone. Offered exclusively by Verizon Wireless, the Storm features a tactile touch-screen that RIM hopes will trump both the iPhone and T-Mobile's G1 phone, the first ever developed powered by Google's Android software, as the hottest electronic device of the holiday season.
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The BlackBerry Storm has some features new to the BlackBerry family and new to mobile smart phones in general, including a tactile touch-screen, a preloaded Facebook for BlackBerry application, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint editing.
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eWEEK takes a look at Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm enterprise user specifications. Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion give the BlackBerry Storm's size, weight, battery life, display, browser, GPS, network support, e-mail integration and software management for the enterprise IT manager tasked with managing the mobile device. These are the official product specifications from Verizon Wireless and RIM.
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Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering is easy to configure, maintain and use, but it's tied too tightly into Windows.
The just-announced Microsoft Online Services may be a winner—provided that Microsoft manages to iron out the service's beta kinks and to fight off the temptation to tie the services more tightly to the fat Windows client model than is necessary.
Review: When it comes to e-mail management tools, you can go with hard processes to be ruthlessly efficient or with soft social connections. After all, they are from humans.
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Communications Server 2007 ably integrates communications, but requires plenty
of Microsoft infrastructure.
Review: Palm's new smart phone is well-suited for those who travel internationally.
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