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	Google Gmail vs. hosted Microsoft Exchange More and more businesses are looking to hosted email services to reduce costs and ease management, and the choice often comes down to Google's Gmail (the key component of Google Apps) or a hosted version of Microsoft Exchange. Read More WEBCAST: Actuate Discover BIRT. Understand how BIRT simplifies and speeds to market the development of rich information applications. In this presentation, a technical expert behind BIRT will demonstrate a customer-facing application in action with Flash, Ajax, and JavaScript interactivity. Click Here! In this Issue SherpaTools brings Google Apps enterprise-level management Dreadfully Few Women Are Open Source Developers The Nexus of the Enterprise Google sheds light on Chrome OS Netbook security Google Docs Now Syncing with Outlook Parallels announces support for Google Chrome OS Android Finally Invades AT&T EC antitrust probe is latest clash in Google-Microsoft war Google Enlists DocVerse in Attack on Microsoft Microsoft introduces free Android app Google Should Take Its Broadband to Failing Cities WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Escaping PCI Purgatory PCI compliance is a challenge for midsize and large companies alike, as there are four phases to meeting the PCI DSS requirements: assessment, remediation, compliance and maintenance. Read this white paper as IBM reveals five key 'sticking points' organizations have been facing on the path to PCI DSS compliance. Learn More SherpaTools brings Google Apps enterprise-level management Google Subnet blog: I'm always interested in third-party tools for Google Apps that will make Apps more attractive to business users. SherpaTools solves a number of administrative pain points for Google Apps such as better directory management. Read More Dreadfully Few Women Are Open Source Developers Amy Vernon: If you can prove your open source community "is not made up of jerks," you can join the PHPWomen Partnership Program. The organization's goal is to make up for the pathetically low numbers of women developers in open source. Read More The Nexus of the Enterprise Mark Murphy: I often tell students and consulting customers that enterprises and malware authors have many of the same interests. They both want to control phones, irrespective of the wishes of the users of those phones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema How WAN Governance Improves Business Performance WAN Governance is an innovative concept that allows organizations to combine traditional WAN optimization techniques and performance management capabilities to ensure optimal speed and availability of business-critical applications. Read More Google sheds light on Chrome OS Netbook security Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference Thursday. Read More Google Docs Now Syncing with Outlook If you use Google Docs and Microsoft Office, you'll appreciate the new Outlook sidebar from Mainsoft. Called Harmony, and currently in beta, the sidebar lets you share, e-mail, download, upload, and edit your Google Docs right from your desktop using Outlook 2007. Read More Parallels announces support for Google Chrome OS Parallels, a provider of cloud services automation and virtualization software, has announced support for Google Chrome as a guest operating system running on Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. Android Finally Invades AT&T AT&T has finally added the Google Android platform to its portfolio of mobile devices with the launch of the Motorola Backflip. Read More EC antitrust probe is latest clash in Google-Microsoft war The European Commission's decision to launch an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s activities has intensified that company's already heated competition with Microsoft Corp. Read More Google Enlists DocVerse in Attack on Microsoft Google's got its head in the cloud--again. The search giant today announced that it has bought DocVerse, a software startup that makes an online collaboration plug-in for Microsoft Office. Read More Microsoft introduces free Android app If you can't beat them, join them. Microsoft is continuing its campaign to cosy up to its business rivals by developing the first app for Google's Android. Read More Google Should Take Its Broadband to Failing Cities Wouldn't it be great if Google installed its gigabit broadband network in cities that could really use the help? Read More
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