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	Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday Salesforce.com is strengthening its hand in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, announcing two new partnerships with Infor and Workday that will result in an intermingling of the companies' applications and technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Rackspace Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud This paper details the significant benefits that Cloud Computing brings and provides guidance to IT decision makers to help their decision making process. This is especially important given the plethora of vendors in the marketplace today. Read Now! In this Issue Richi Jennings: Offline Gmail: a Google FAIL Update: Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP Oracle vows to continue IP theft suit against SAP Parallels Desktop 7 adds Lion virtualization, more Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of 'bug' IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster Business videoconferencing showdown 9 handy utilities for optimizing your Windows desktop and display Three comic-book style image editors RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Richi Jennings: Offline Gmail: a Google FAIL Google has re-introduced its offline functionality for Gmail and Google Apps. And, oh boy, it's a mess. I seem to be saying this a lot recently, but it's as if Google has stopped caring about what its users actually need. Instead, it's running headlong into a project that doesn't have user requirements at its heart. Allow me to explain, in The Long View. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More Update: Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP A federal judge has overturned the $1.3 billion judgment Oracle won against SAP in its corporate theft trial. Read More Oracle vows to continue IP theft suit against SAP A defiant Oracle vowed to continue its legal battle against rival SAP, saying it will reject a federal Judge's compromise plan. Read More Parallels Desktop 7 adds Lion virtualization, more Parallels has announced the release of Parallels Desktop 7.0, its popular virtualization solution for OS X. The new version introduces a number of features designed to make the product run better under Lion. Read More Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of 'bug' Did Grace Hopper really invent the term 'bug' to describe software errors? Nope. Here's the real story. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Cloud-based Email Archiving: A practical guide Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud-based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. We suggest a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-base storage, secure access and high availability. Read now IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M IBM plans to acquire risk analytics company Algorithmics for $387 million, a deal that IBM said will bolster its risk management offerings in light of increasing regulation in the financial markets. Read More Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has released version 3.1 of his open-source Web application development framework, adding new features that should speed the rendering of Web pages for users. Read More Business videoconferencing showdown With telecommuters and outside contractors now serving vital roles in most small to midsize companies, it has become increasingly important to be able to meet face-to-face with people across the building, across town or across the ocean without physically transporting ourselves around. Read More 9 handy utilities for optimizing your Windows desktop and display No matter the size of your Windows desktop, you can get more out of it with the help of free and low-cost tools. Here's how. Read More Three comic-book style image editors Perhaps you've never felt motivated to assemble your collected photographs into comic book form, with all the stylings you'd expect from a graphic novel. That may well be because you weren't aware that many iPad apps exist with the single goal of making just such a thing possible. Read More
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