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At the Rich Web Experience conference, the OpenAjax Alliance promotes OpenAjax Metadata, a specification to facilitate interoperability across AJAX IDEs. Another version of the OpenAjax Metadata specification supports widget interoperability and security.
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Controversial Silicon Valley advertising startup NebuAd drops its plan to sell deep packet inspection technology to ISPs after Congress and public interest groups slam the privacy implications of deep packet inspection. NebuAd suffered through a summer of losing customers and congressional hearing before bailing on the plan that promised ISPs additional revenue sources through DPI.
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LinkedIn, the social network that professionals also use as a messaging and collaoration tool, joins forces with financial news site CNBC. The deal will see LinkedIn's networking functionality integrated into CNBC.com, allowing users to share and discuss news with their professional contacts. With such deals, LinkedIn aims to remain independent and grow its user base beyond its current 27 million members.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Unison CEO Michael Choupak and Chief Marketing Officer Rurik Bradbury explain why an open-source approach to unified communications may ultimately prevail over any number of rival proprietary options.
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Secure Computing reaches an agreement to acquire Securify to lead the charge in the development of the next generation of firewalls. The combination of the two companies' security technology will enable Secure Computing to deliver a firewall that regulates network access through business policies, application control and user access control.
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SAAS integration startup Appirio adds personal and premium synchronization services that grease operations between Google Apps and Salesforce.com CRM. Appirio aims to integrate with other vendors in the future, but only if IBM, SAP, Oracle or some other legacy software provider doesn't snap up Appirio first. After all, Appirio's solutions are pretty much middleware for cloud computing.
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Novell has launched a compliance platform to challenge its competitors in the identity management space, including Oracle and IBM. The platform pulls together a number of Novell products, including Novell Identity Manager and Novell Sentinel. With this enterprise-class solution, Novell goes head-to-head with IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others.
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IBM Sametime 3-D is a mashup of IBM's Lotus Sametime instant messaging and collaboration application with virtual worlds, such as OpenSim. No word on whether or not it will work with Second Life, but IBM will look to take Sametime 3-D out of application development and make it an enterprise application within the Lotus unified communications and collaborations suite.
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At IBM, services are king as the IBM Global Services business leads in the company in revenue by producing consecutive quarters of increased profitability. However, it is not services alone that make the IBM unit so effective, but Big Blue’s integration of its research arm into the services mix, as well as IBM software solutions including Rational and WebSphere.
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IBM announces a new twist in its Information On Demand strategy with the introduction of a number of tools for data discovery modeling and data analytics as well as services to provide deeper insight into data. The announcement represents a maturation of IBM's Information On Demand strategy, and focuses on getting enterprises to accelerate enterprise access to data and the governance of information as a strategic business asset.
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Google's new browser Chrome contains a number of key security features Google hopes will put it on par with Apple's Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Chrome follows in the footsteps of other browsers, especially with its blacklisting of known rogue sites and its inclusion of Incognito mode. But are the anti-phishing and secure browsing features enough to win users over from rival browsers?
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IBM, Hewlett-Packard just happen to make their announcements on the same day. IBM reveals the BladeCenter PN41, the first to support Deep Packet Inspection technology. HP introduces its ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade as the world's first designed to host virtual machines.
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Firewall administration involves constantly searching for ways to improve firewall management, increase firewall performance and remove network security threats. Keeping a firewall properly configured and operating at peak efficiency is a constant challenge for network administrators. With the right kind of firewall management technology, Knowledge Center contributor Dr. Avishai Wool explains how you can rid your firewall of clutter and improve its security and performance.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, eXpresso CEO George Langan explains why delivering Microsoft productivity applications as a service makes a whole lot more sense in the enterprise when compared to Google applications.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Sanjay Poonen, SAP senior vice president and general manager for performance optimization applications, explains the company's multi-faceted approach to embedding business intelligence capabilities across the enterprise.
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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.
Here is eWEEK Labs' annual list of the IT products, technologies and decisions that stood out for all the wrong reasons.
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