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Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social applications that allow for messaging and collaboration in the workplace, should not be banned, argue two Gartner analysts. Though not quite ready for use in enterprise applications, Facebook, Twitter and the others can prove valuable in helping colleagues and customers connect, so long as businesses employ a trust model.
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Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time away from the messaging and collaboration platforms flogging the company on the Google Apps discussion group. Can Microsoft and other SAAS newcomers take advantage of these Google Gmail and Google Apps outages?
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Cancer patients stick to their medication regimen thanks to Re-Mission, a specially designed video game that teaches adherence to treatment plans. Re-Mission players control a tiny robot called Roxxi who moves around in a 3-D environment representing the inside of the body of a young cancer patient. Players can use Roxxi to blast cancer cells and control side effects, and winning the game requires taking chemotherapy drugs and antibiotics, using relaxation techniques, eating food, and keeping up with other types of self-care.
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France's Olympic handball team expects video analytics to give it a boost against opponents. The French started using software combining videos of all the players in the world with match statistics to train their teams. Studying opponents' every move, strength and weakness is meant to help players devise the perfect counter-attack.
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In this IT Link podcast interview SugarCRM CEO John Roberts explains why open source applications are now coming into their own.
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The hacker group behind the Coreflood Trojan has learned that patience pays, as it has stolen at least 463,582 user names and passwords while flying under the radar. At Black Hat, SecureWorks Director of Malware Research Joe Stewart discussed his research on the gang and how it has gone undetected.
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The impact of the DNS protocol flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky is much wider than previously thought, endangering the trust many of us take for granted. The DNS flaw went beyond cache poisoning to target FTP and Secure Sockets Layer certificates.
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Google launches Insights for Search, a Web analytics tool designed to keep advertisers connecting with customers and enterprises online. Such tools are also what keeps Google ahead of Yahoo, Microsoft and the rest of the search advertising pack.
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Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks.
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Borland is adopting agile development as a core tenet of its software delivery strategy as a way of speeding up application development and saving costs.
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VersionOne and Danube roll out tools for agile software development. VersionOne is integrating its V1: Agile technology with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 and is supporting Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Danube unveiled ScrumCore, a new services unit devoted to agile development.
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Yahoo released a recount vote for its board that showed strong opposition to CEO Jerry Yang and others. The vote came after a months-long buyout bid by Microsoft and a partnership with Google. A key Yahoo shareholder called for a probe of the vote.
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Google releases its new Google Search Appliance, a box that now indexes 10 million documents as a way to compete with Microsoft's Fast search assets, as well as Vivisimo, Endeca, Autonomy and other players in the enterprise search market. Google also looks to extend its market lead with new metadata biasing tools, Google alerts, advanced search analytics and Kerberos support.
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The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.
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Symantec's virtual workspace offering will let enterprise users take their business desktops with them wherever they go. The technology comes from nSuite, which Symantec is buying.
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