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BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Aaron Ricadela	Can Adobe Beat Back the Hackers? As its software becomes a major means of attack, security experts wonder if it can fight hard enough
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Steve Hamm	The King of the Cloud Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's book, Behind the Cloud, is a fun, user-friendly guide for entrepreneurs and spectators.
Information Today November 19, 2009 Marji McClure	Coveo Promises Ease of Use and Accessibility With Expresso Launch Enterprise search technology provider Coveo has launched Coveo Expresso Beta, an entry-level enterprise search product available via a free download.
InternetNews November 19, 2009	Windows 7 Sales 'Fantastic,' Ballmer Says At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, there was little to rock the boat as the company pilots its way out of the downturn.
InternetNews November 19, 2009	Is Cloud Computing Ready to Rumble? Virtualization vendors say cloud computing is the proverbial 'next big thing,' though it's not necessarily an IT priority yet.
InternetNews November 19, 2009	Google Shows Off Chrome OS, Releases Source Code Google ties Chrome OS to solid-state netbooks and systems available for 2010 holiday system.
InternetNews November 19, 2009	Mozilla Netted Nearly $80m in 2008 Open source firm finds the money in free software.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Anders Bylund	How the "Netflix Law" Can Make You Rich The business models for hardware and software are fundamentally different. Learn how to profit from this fact.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Salesforce Debuts a Facebook for the Enterprise At Dreamforce 2009, Benioff introduces Chatter, aimed at bridging the gap separating content, applications and people.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	HP Adds ProCurve One Partners, Apps HP expands its app blade switch effort with new partners and programs. And does the fact ONE is Linux-based matter?
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Top 10 Mobile App Trends to Come Gartner takes a look at where the action will be for developers of consumer mobile apps.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	SAP, Microsoft Gang Up on Oracle Microsoft on Wednesday announced that SAP will be the "preferred partner" for customers buying its budgeting, planning and forecasting applications, a move that's clearly intended to send a message to Oracle.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Metasploit Expands Vulnerability Test Framework New release aims to push the boundaries of open source vulnerability testing.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Rich Smith	Time to Sell Salesforce? Growth is going great guns -- but the stock's a dud.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Is This Microsoft's Dumbest Move Ever? The latest update to Microsoft's Xbox Live kicks in, and with it comes a nod to social networking. The new interface integrates Twitter and Facebook into the Xbox Live gamer experience.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	HyperCard Reborn? Runtime Revolution releases the latest version of its natural language development environment for the Web.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	Microsoft Offers Azure Availability, New Tools One year after its announcement, Azure gets a launch date and plenty of new features.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	Fedora 12 Takes Aim at Linux Networking New Red Hat community Linux release pushes the bleeding edge with a host of new features and improvements.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	IBM Offers Lotus Symphony to Go Secure, credit-card sized Keepod device stores office productivity suite.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	At HP, Thin Is In (Thin Clients, That Is) A slew of new hardware and software aims to beef up thin computing.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Eric Jhonsa	Does Microsoft Even Care About Wireless Anymore? Even for an also-ran, things have gotten pretty ugly for Windows Mobile as of late, and Microsoft isn't doing much to change the trend.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	High Performance Windows Server Hits Beta Have you got spreadsheets that need a computer cluster to process? Your wish may be granted.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Begins for Some Early access starts for a few early users, but the big question remains: When will the full beta begin?
InternetNews November 16, 2009	IBM Rolls Out BI for Private Clouds Smart Analytics Cloud will provide more than a petabyte of data to its 200,000 employees.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Google Apps Gets an Enterprise Cloud Assist LTech's Single-On for Google Apps enhances IT security, while an update to Power Panel for Google Apps extends lifecycle features.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Palm Updates webOS, Pixi Debuts Palm introduces an update to its operating system as second signature smartphone arrives on store shelves.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Tim Beyers	You Blew It, Microsoft Don Dodge, a product-marketing veteran with mountains of clout among venture capitalists and the technorati, has officially joined Google after being laid off from Microsoft.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Practice Makes Perfect in China China's leisure-seeking kids aren't tiring of multiplayer Internet games. Perfect World delivered yet another quarter of market-thumping growth.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Microsoft Confirms XP Migration Tool Uses GPLv2 Microsoft officials on Friday confirmed that a tool the company had commissioned from a third-party to help Windows XP users migrate to Windows 7 does indeed contain unauthorized open source code.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	MultiPoint Server 2010 Coming to the Classroom Microsoft leverages an old solution to an old problem with new technology.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Writing Simulation Software for Dummies Educational simulations offer a cheap -- and sometimes more effective -- way to train soldiers for the complex challenges they will face on the battlefield.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Buying a Cyberattack Parabon Computation is marketing its denial-of-service simulator, called Blitz, to government agencies and businesses that are likely targets for Internet criminals.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	IBM Debuts Virtual Server Security App IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Surf's Up: Droid Boasts 25% of Android Web Traffic Verizon's first smartphone running Google's open source mobile software sends the stat counter spinning amid a wider Android blitz.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Should Oracle Dump Europe Before MySQL? How far can Oracle afford to go if it can't win over European regulators to complete its purchase of Sun?
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Fedora 12 Linux Tackles Virtualization Red Hat's upcoming community Linux release expands the real footprint of open source virtual technology.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Microsoft Wants to Sell Windows Themes as Ads Microsoft officials said Friday they will experiment with selling marketers the right to place ads in Windows 7 themes on users' desktops.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Can November Save the Gamers? October was brutal for the video game industry. Domestic sales of hardware and software fell a sharp 19%, to $1.07 billion, over last year.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Dave Mock	3 Reasons to Buy Rambus Today Many investors have written off the tech sector, but there's still plenty who think that intellectual property licensor Rambus is worth looking at.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Tim Beyers	These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich Week 66 of one Motley Fool analyst's real-money investment in these five tech stocks: Akamai... Harris & Harris... IBM... Oracle... Taiwan Semiconductor...
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Microsoft Readies Free Ad-supported Office 2010 Microsoft is preparing to beta test a stripped down version of the next Office release.
CRM November 2009 Lauren McKay	The Vendor Vultures Salesforce.com added contact management, putting it into competition with Act! and GoldMine. This is just one example of the many efforts by CRM vendors to acquire customers from competitors by adding features, offering rebates, and promising cost savings.
CRM November 2009 Christopher Musico	They've Got Your Number Enterprises now see the potential for telephone-enabling technologies and software-as-a-service to help capture the voice of the customer.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Steve Hamm	Charles Wang's Messy Second Act The ex-CEO of software high flier Computer Associates is trying real estate. But his past won't stay behind him.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Ronald Grover	Dangerous Days for Video Games The game business isn't what it was. As companies have to invest more to chase consumers, the $11 billion business is taking a hit.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Netbook Buyers Don't Want Windows 7 'Starter' Buyers may be dissatisfied with Windows 7 Starter Edition, but will they buy netbooks anyway? A new survey sheds some light.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	SIIA, Adobe Take Online Pirates to Court The Software & Information Industry Association on Thursday said it has filed six new software piracy lawsuits on behalf of Adobe Systems, charging the sextet with selling infringing or counterfeit versions of the popular applications online.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Apple Gives iPhone Developers App Status Tracker Apple is taking a step toward shining some light on its iPhone application vetting process by providing a new way for app developers to track the status of programs they've submitted to the company's App Store.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Novell Sets OpenSUSE 11.2 Free New Linux release updates core apps, and changes the way Novell works with its community.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Coverity Adds Impact to Development Tools Code analysis vendor combines Agile-friendly static, dynamic, build and architecture analysis in new offering.
InternetNews November 11, 2009	Adobe Cuts Workforce to Shave Costs Adobe Systems aims to slim down following its acquisition of Omniture.
InternetNews November 11, 2009	IBM Personalizes Shopping With Commerce 7 WebSphere Commerce 7 adds mobile and social commerce features just in time for the holiday shopping season.
InternetNews November 11, 2009	What's Google Thinking With Go? Does the industry really need another programming language?
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Eric Jhonsa	For Rackspace, Growth Comes at a Price Soaring capital spending at the data-center hosting company is keeping a lid on earnings and cash flow.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Your Move, Diehard Gamers Analyst downgrades and developer layoffs coat the industry with milky gloom.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Tim Beyers	Why Oracle Must Fight Europe Evidence suggests that MySQL today is worth materially more than what Sun paid for it. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has no choice but to fight for fair value, and that means fighting the European Commission's ruling.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Hunter Pavela	NVIDIA, Intel, Supercomputers, Oh My! The latest GPU offerings from NVIDIA and Intel are wading into new territory.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Microsoft Nixes Windows 7 Tool on GPL Concerns Tool aimed at easing Windows 7 migrations for netbooks may violate open source license.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Targets Fewer Holes Microsoft released patches Tuesday for five critical bugs in Windows, although none affect the newly released Windows 7, unlike last month's roundup of fixes.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Cisco Is Crazy for Collaboration Cisco unwraps its own social software for the enterprise.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Microsoft Novell Partnership Still Growing As partnership enters its third year of Linux and Window interoperability, the vendors post a 50 percent growth rate.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Black Hat Vulnerabilities Get Apple's Attention Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes security issues, some of which were publicly disclosed months ago.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	With Ocean, Samsung Dives Into Mobile OS Fray Samsung unveils plans for a new mobile operating platform called Ocean, joining a sea of rivals in the handset OS sea.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Novell Brings Mono to Microsoft's Visual Studio Microsoft developers finally get an integrated platform for building .NET for Linux.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Tim Beyers	This Growth Story Just Got Better Rackspace, the data-hosting specialist for corporate clients, racks up another green quarter.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Anders Bylund	Why Cisco Can't Overspend on Tandberg Why does Ciscoberg sound better than Microhoo? Because it's a natural fit that will dominate a fledgling market.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	European Regulators Object to Oracle-Sun Merger The European Commission made the rumors official on Monday by issuing its official objections to Sun Microsystems' acquisition by Oracle - setting the stage for a transatlantic fight between Oracle and European regulators.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Apple Issues Second Snow Leopard Update Apple today released a major update to its Mac OS X 10.6 operating system, "Snow Leopard," marking the second official release for the software since OS X 10.6 debuted in August. The update includes a larger set of bug fixes and addresses a major vulnerability that surfaced in September.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	RIM Courts Devs With New BlackBerry Services Touting Adobe Flash support and a new platform that adds location, payment and advertising features, the mobile giant behind the BlackBerry widens its aim.
Information Today November 9, 2009 Nancy Davis Kho	LibreDigital Provides AllAccess to Content LibreDigital is one player in the e-reader market trying to offer maximum format flexibility to readers.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	VMware's View 4 Delivers PC-Over-IP VMware's latest offering lets enterprises run their desktop virtualization environments with PC-over-IP protocol as a managed service model.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Sun Hangs In There Despite Tough Q1 It's rough times for the company but a recent SEC filing shows it's not just shriveling up.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Microsoft Debuts Exchange 2010, Buys Teamprise Acquisition will let Eclipse developers build apps on Visual Studio 2010.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Radware Rolls Out App Delivery Platform Alteon 5412 promises expanded network traffic capacity for high-end datacenters.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Adobe, Salesforce Jump on Goldman Upgrades Software stocks rally after influential analyst raises investors' expectations.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google's AdMob Mentality Google buys a mobile advertising network, AdMob.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	EA Goes Fishing in Facebook's Pond Social-network game maker Playfish gets reeled in by Electronic Arts
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Analyst: Sony-Ericsson's Android Bid Is Late The company's Android-powered X10 brings the OS in a new multimedia direction, but it's not clear when it will arrive in the U.S.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	In Defense of Steve Ballmer Microsoft's CEO has taken a lot of knocks, but are the critics being fair?
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Red Hat execs explain why Linux vendor's Linux virtualization management solution runs only on Microsoft's rival OS.
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Throw This Stock Away Who gets tossed out this week? Come on down, Activision Blizzard
CRM November 2009 David Myron	Salesforce.com: One Leader. One Decade. $1 Billion. Salesforce.com has proven the importance of making sure its customers are successful.
CRM November 2009 Denis Pombriant	The Man Who Moved a Paradigm An evaluation of the changes wrought by Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff.
CRM November 2009 Ian Jacobs	A Salesforce.com by Any Other Name What do you do when your brand no longer reflects your offerings?
CRM November 2009 J. David Lashar	The Partner-Proliferation Problem An on-demand CRM platform involves a partner-selection process as well.
CRM November 2009 Marshall Lager	Marc'ing Time in San Francisco It's been 10 years since the founding of Salesforce.com, and CRM has never been the same.
InternetNews November 5, 2009	Startup Software Spending Falls to 13-Year Low Investment in fledgling software companies reaches its lowest level in 13 years as clean tech and biotech spending surges.
InternetNews November 5, 2009	Patch Tuesday Will Tackle Three 'Critical' Bugs Microsoft releases its monthly "heads up" for IT staffers on next week's bug-squishing party.
InternetNews November 5, 2009	CA Tunes Up PCs From the Cloud PC optimization applications aim to keep older machines in the game.
InternetNews November 5, 2009	IBM Brings Developers Into the Cloud Sure, the cloud may make sense for operations - but what about developers?
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Apache at 10: You Can't Buy Us Pioneers of the open source foundation explain the benefits of their software meritocracy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Applications Enhanced by Green Hills Green Hills Software is enhancing its Platform for Industrial Safety, by adding support for the Green Hills Secure Virtualization Architecture and expanding the existing networking, file system, and target hardware options.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Naval Oceanographic and Military Weather Signal Processing Job Goes to General Dynamics General Dynamics won a $22.2 million contract to deliver the company's NITES-Next ocean and weather intelligence processing software.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Microsoft Laying Off More Workers For any Microsoft employees who thought the layoffs were over last spring, that appears to have been a bad assumption.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Microsoft Targets Salesforce and Oracle Microsoft also takes a swing at Google as well in the on-demand market.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Kaspersky Offers Macs a Security Blanket Antivirus software designed to thwart growing malware threat to Macs.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	McAfee Unveils Appliance for SMB Set E-mail and Web security appliance protects networks with minimal system administration requirements.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Apple Claims 100,000 Apps, Google Analyzes Them Apple continues to lead in bragging rights for smartphone apps, while Google expands its free Web analytics for mobile developers.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	ScaleMP Adds Cloud Virtualization for Servers New product line will help multiple servers operate as a single system and work with cloud provisioning services.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	EC May Block Oracle/Sun Merger Numerous reports have indicated that Oracle is expecting a formal objection from the European Commission on Competition to its planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, inviting the possibility that the European Union could derail the merger.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation Moving Forward Microsoft's open source foundation still doesn't have a full-time leader or new projects, but advocates say things are progressing.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Anders Bylund	Cisco and VMware: This Is a Hug, Not a Marriage Cisco is forming a cloud computing partnership with storage expert EMC and its virtual computing underling, VMware.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Rich Smith	Blackboard Asks: "Recession? What Recession?" The educational software provider defied the downturn in tax revenues, the soaring costs of public education, and the general anemic economics of this jobless recovery, turning in a real eraser-clapper of a quarter last night.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Microsoft Readies 'Premium' Database Packages Microsoft trots out its newest database arrivals at SQL Server show.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	PayPal Opens Up Payment Platform to Devs With PayPal X, the leading online payments company said it's banking on outside developers to lead a new wave of applications.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Adobe's ConnectPro Update Challenges WebEx Web conferencing software ads offline integration and now supports telephony and video conferencing software.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Oracle Outlines Sun Software Plans With the deal's approval still pending, Oracle offers more details on what it plans to do if it can close on its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Gets Managed Standalone hypervisor and management solution released as Linux vendor takes on Microsoft and VMware.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Now Showing: PowerPoint Gets a Comparison Tool Workshare has introduced software that gives Microsoft Office PowerPoint users several new capabilities, helping users manage different versions of presentations.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Cisco, VMware, EMC Forge Datacenter Alliance The IT juggernauts' Virtual Computing Environment Coalition aims to accelerate the move to the cloud.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Eric Jhonsa	Why Steve Ballmer's Cool on an IT Spending Recovery With unemployment high and businesses cautious, tech investors need to tread carefully.
InternetNews November 2, 2009	Windows 7 Shows Signs of Early Gains As Microsoft's latest Windows edition grows in popularity, which OS will it edge out?
Information Today November 2, 2009	Silobreaker Offers News Intelligence Software to Corporate and Government Customers It offers a new option for companies wanting to combine news aggregation with sense-making tools and graphics.
Information Today November 2, 2009	PBworks Announces Real-Time and Voice Collaboration Geographically distributed teams will be able to work together on writing content, creating meeting notes in real time and enjoying other interactive features that previously required a face-to-face meeting.
Information Today November 2, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Text Analytics Gains a Broader Audience in the Enterprise For the last several years, text analytics technologies have been continually improving and are increasingly being incorporated into new information filtering solutions.
Insurance & Technology October 30, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	QBE Signs IBM to Strategic Infrastructure Outsourcing Contract The three-year contract will cover data center, network and end-user operations for QBE's U.K. and Western European operations.
CRM October 2009 Rob Rose	Climbing to New Heights of Lead Generation Looking to expand its library of ideas, CrownPeak, a provider of Web content management software, turns to Demandbase to target more customers at less expense.
Information Today October 29, 2009 Theresa Cramer	Endeca Stresses Simplicity With New Partnerships Endeca will integrate Xcelsius software, SAP BusinessObjects Intelligent Search software, PowerCenter, and PowerExchange into the Endeca Information Access Platform.
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators.
T.H.E. Journal October 26, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Software Developer Offers Students Graphic Arts Industry Suite for Free MetaCommunications has announced the launch of its Software for Students program, through which high schools, colleges, and career training institutes teaching graphic arts can use the company's Workgroups 2010 application suite free of charge.
T.H.E. Journal October 20, 2009 Kurt Mackie	Report: IT Should Plan for Windows 7 Now Microsoft will hatch Windows 7 as a full-fledged commercial operating system this week, and IT professionals should be making plans for it.
CIO September 30, 2009 Tom Kaneshige	iPhone App Prices: How Much is Too Much? iPhone app developers are pushing the patience of some users with apps priced at $99. But what's the "right" price for an iPhone app? While users like free best, three sweet spots are emerging - all under $20.
Information Today October 26, 2009	Microsoft Announces Public Beta of SharePoint 2010 New features include a ribbon user interface for customization of SharePoint sites, enhanced Office integration via social tagging and document life-cycle management and more.
Information Age October 21, 2009 Pete Swabey	A Life in Code Software developer Hal Finney, key contributor to open source cryptography system PGP, has been diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease.
Fast Company November 2009 Kate Rockwood	The Six "Wow" Features of Windows 7 How Sam Moreau and his eclectic team of architects, industrial designers, and writers created the "Wow!" features of Microsoft's new operating system.
Oracle Magazine Nov/Dec 2009 David A. Kelly	Portraits of Excellence The winners of the Editors' Choice Awards 2009 for people who exemplify vision and dedication in working with and managing Oracle technology.
Oracle Magazine Nov/Dec 2009 Blair Campbell	New-Feature Fanfare Three peers find plenty to praise in Oracle's database and applications tools.
Insurance & Technology October 9, 2009	Justice Begins Antitrust Probe of IBM Companies contacted by the U.S. Justice Department said antitrust investigators had begun an inquiry into computer maker IBM's business practices.
Information Today October 8, 2009	NewsGator Expands Collaboration Capabilities in Social Sites 3.0 NewsGator Technologies now offers features for tracking colleagues' statuses, streamlining cross-community knowledge sharing, and discovering in-house subject matter experts.
Information Today October 8, 2009	Vivisimo Unveils New Release of Velocity Enterprise Search Platform Velocity 7.5 introduces significant enhancements in extensibility, scalability via on-demand index management, and performance via triple data compression.
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