Oracle is snapping up companies left and right lately: this year the company not only closed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but also purchased smaller players like Silver Creek Systems, AmberPoint and now, Convergin. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of this year, and financial details were not disclosed. After the […]

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The OpenOffice.org Community this morning announced the release of the latest version (3.2) of its personal productivity suite, and simultaneously announced that the software has been downloaded an impressive 300 million times in total since its public debut in April 2002. According to the statement, OpenOffice.org 3 recorded over half of that number from the […]

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In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company also introduced an entirely new add-on for its Outlook product that we haven’t heard a peep about since. That’s about to change soon. The product, dubbed Outlook Social Connector, essentially aims to make Outlook more social by […]

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Well, lookee here, it’s Google with a FriendFeed clone just in time to ask the musical question: If FriendFeed sucks so much, why on earth is Google doing a for-profit version of it? While the privacy crisis rages on around our inboxes, Google has blasted yet another microstream out into direct symbiosis with Twitter. Yes, […]

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We recently wrote about CloudShare, a recently launched service that allows companies to demo software in the cloud. Organizations can instantly deploy multiple, independent copies of their existing demos or training environments from CloudShare’s platform. Today, CloudShare is launching CloudShare Pro, a lightweight, free version of its service for individuals and small businesses. CloudShare is […]

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Salesforce’s enterprise friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced at last year’s November with much fanfare. To many, there was no doubt that Chatter will have a lasting impact on the enterprise and cloud computing. And customers seemed to agree. Following Salesforce’s debut of Chatter, over 67,000 of Salesforce’s customers requested to be private beta […]

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Salesforce CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff unveiled the company’s realtime micromessaging technology as it went into a private beta with 100 customers. The press event featured a rather unique sketch of the company’s vision of the near future of enterprise realtime by Benioff, followed by several quick demos of the product’s capabilities as leveraged by […]

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Twitter’s Streaming API, which allows developers realtime access to Tweets, was recently launched into full production mode, after being in alpha testing since April of last year. Eric Marcoullier, CEO and co-founder of API aggregation platform Gnip, has written an interesting blog post guiding companies on the logistics of moving to Twitter’s streaming API that […]

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Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts to log-in to Zoho Apps. Zoho says that most of its users are using their log-ins for other applications to use Zoho’s offerings. Today, the productivity suite is adding a social layer to its suite by […]

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If there’s anyone who has the inside track on Buzz and all things social media related, it’s TechCrunch super-reporter MG Siegler. He’s waited two weeks to weigh in on Buzz good bad and ugly, and it turns out that Buzz is FriendFeed — or will be. In the interests of setting the record straight, let […]

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