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	Manufacturer sues IBM over SAP project 'disaster' IBM has been slapped with a multimillion dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied about the suitability of a SAP-based software package it sells in order to win Avantor's business. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. In this Issue Oracle buys PPM vendor Instantis Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost The US military mines social media for rich intelligence Why the world isn't ready for the travel app revolution Jonny Evans: Apple creatives -- are you ready for the Adobe CS upgrade price rise? Michigan man charged with selling counterfeit Microsoft software Zero-day PDF exploit reportedly defeats Adobe Reader sandbox protection In pictures: Google's Nexus 10 tablet WEBCAST: Oracle and Intel Take Complexity Out of a Database Build November 8th, 2012 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST Attend this Webcast to hear customer stories and discover how the Oracle Database Appliance increases ROI by reducing capital and operational expenses. Learn More Oracle buys PPM vendor Instantis Oracle on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire PPM software vendor Instantis, in a move that will build upon its past acquisition of Primavera. Read More Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost Google's Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centers based in either the U.S. or Europe. Read More The US military mines social media for rich intelligence Researchers and students at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California are developing tools to collect targeted data from social media. One piece of Twitter software is already in beta version, being used overseas. Read More Why the world isn't ready for the travel app revolution Translation apps don't translate into actual usefulness, and the artificial intelligence travel guides don't compute. Mike Elgan explains why. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner evaluates vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. Learn More Jonny Evans: Apple creatives -- are you ready for the Adobe CS upgrade price rise? Creative users should be aware that Adobe will end its discount deal for upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite and applications such as Photoshop within the next few weeks. This is the last chance to upgrade your software affordably before effectively becoming locked out of future upgrade paths and being required to pay for the full version. Read More Michigan man charged with selling counterfeit Microsoft software A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 million that he purchased from China and Singapore, the U.S Department of Justice said Thursday. Read More Zero-day PDF exploit reportedly defeats Adobe Reader sandbox protection Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. Read More In pictures: Google's Nexus 10 tablet The Samsung-designed device is the first in the Nexus line to directly challenge the iPad. Read More
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