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Salesforce to offer social networking for companies
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that's largely been for personal use. Read more »
Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com
Salesforce.com and Adobe have announced a partnership that will bring Flash to Force.com, a platform for building and creating business cloud apps. Read more »
Google Wave ready for wider testing
Google Wave is ready for its next step: a more thorough test of its scalability and stability as more than 100,000 new users crowd onto the service. Read more »
Salesforce taps into Facebook and Twitter
Salesforce.com has reinforced its drive into customer services with social-networking software to help firms exploit consumer expertise. Read more »
Google switches on Apps Script
Google officially rolled out its Apps Script functionality for enterprise users on Wednesday, following a limited pilot release earlier this year. Read more »
Microsoft's server boss: No Azure in a box
One of the limiting factors for Windows Azure — Microsoft's operating system for the cloud — is that it only runs in Microsoft's data centers. Read more »
Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites
Businesses can now build and run their external websites using technology from software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com. Read more »
Google Apps feels the Force.com
Salesforce.com has introduced a new version of Force.com that improves the cloud-computing platform's integration with Google App Engine. Read more »
Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud
Most businesses will deploy a hybrid cloud computing model based on proprietary and open source software due to the complexity of niche enterprise applications, said a Red Hat executive. Read more »
Salesforce.com service on a cloud lifts off
Salesforce.com on Thursday announced Service Cloud, an extension to its software as a service (SaaS) model that is intended as a way for companies to communicate with their customers over the web. Read more »
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10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies
Innovation around Web 2.0 technologies continues to pick up steam as companies look for ways to cut spending and get more from the solutions they choose. This article outlines some of the top cost-effective web-orientated tools and strategies. Read more »
10 ways to manage your risk with web applications
Web apps continue to grow in popularity, but companies have legitimate concerns about security and reliability. Here are some ways to address potential risks and make sure you choose the right vendor. Read more »
MAX 08: Adobe lays out future directions
At Adobe's MAX conference this year -- Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch identified three trends that Adobe will address: client and cloud computing, devices and desktop computing, and social computing. Read more »
Interview: Getting sassy with SaaS
We sat down with Salesforce's Doug Farber to talk about the benefits of using the SaaS model and how developers can take advantage of cloud computing on the company's Force.com platform. Read more »
Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop
Veteran developer Marc Canter warns industry politics could stymie push to give social network users more control over data. Read more »
Apex Code: Developing natively in the cloud
Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com discusses Apex code -- the language for taking advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »
Force.com: A first step into a larger world
We sat down with Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com to discuss how developers can take advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »
Deploying with AppExchange
The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market. Read more »
Web 2.0 meets the enterprise
Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »
What if? an alternative history of tech
Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »
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Salesforce.com launches Sites
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of technology, he demos the way New Jersey Transit uses Sites to keep their riders updated--even on the go with iPhones or Blackberrys. Read more »
Demo of Google apps on Salesforce
Here's how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform. The two companies announced a joint cloud computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on Monday, April 14, 2008. Read more »
Salesforce.com apps for the Apple iPhone
At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California. Read more »
Apex Code: Developing natively in the cloud
Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com discusses Apex code -- the language for taking advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »
Force.com: A first step into a larger world
We sat down with Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com to discuss how developers can take advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »
Blog (15)
Ubuntu Karmic Koala released
-- Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, was released overnight. More of this week's news in this edition of the Roundup. Read more »
Hackers attack government websites
-- A hackers' alliance staged a denial-of-service attack on websites of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ACMA on Wednesday night. Read more of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
iPhone OS 3.0 makes an entrance
-- iiPhone OS 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 release candidate get launched this week. More in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Highlights from the Linux.conf.au
-- In this week's Roundup we bring you news from the annual Linux.conf.au, screenshots of Microsoft Office 14 and more. Read more »
Unlocking Android
-- In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. Read more »
Google to allow third party code in Gmail?
-- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »
Salesforce's new AIR toolkit
-- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »
Google embraces and extends Facebook apps
-- With less effort than negotiating for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, has Google simply outmanoeuvred everybody with their write once, run anywhere approach to social applications? Read more »
Warning: ads to get more annoying
-- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »
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