InfoWorld Applications News

The rumor mill is in full gear over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter. The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch#39;s Michael Arrington.

Central Desktop has enhanced its eponymous Web-hosted collaboration suite with a plug-in for Outlook that the company believes increases its viability as a SharePoint alternative.

The high-stakes, but still under-the covers battle by IBM to take over Sun Microsystems is still in play, but IBM may be rethinking what it is willing to pay for the enterprise vendor.

Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.

Platform-as-a-service provider Longjump announced this week that its on-demand Business Applications Platform can now be licensed and used within a customer's four walls.

Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters.

EMC on Thursday unwrapped the SourceOne product family of enterprise archiving, compliance, and e-discovery software.

Workaholics tethered to their smartphones have another reason to switch to Apple: Rumors that Microsoft#39;s Office Suite is coming to the iPhone are inching towards reality, and iPhone apps with document and spreadsheet editing capabilities are also on the way.

SAP and its customers disagree not just about the value of its Enterprise Support service, but also about how to measure that value -- and now, it seems, about how close they are to agreeing on how to measure that value.

Hoping to score new business among a rival#39;s customer base, SaaS ERP vendor NetSuite on Thursday pushed its ability to integrate with on-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com.

Reducing the number of mobile software platforms, but not by too much, is the key to unleashing pent up creativity in the mobile market, executives said on Wednesday.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=545ea697886be9b54e8bc73d3df0ed3cp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=545ea697886be9b54e8bc73d3df0ed3cp=1//a

Intel on Thursday plans to turn over the reins of its Moblin Linux-based platform project to the Linux Foundation, putting the work in neutral territory in the hopes of attracting more community support for it.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d51400779ced9e460b0095693f4ef26ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d51400779ced9e460b0095693f4ef26ap=1//a

A long-anticipated set of key performance indicators (KPIs) for SAP#39;s controversial Enterprise Support Service are coming soon, according to a company spokesman.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=519c9d21108b19c527c5ecb931fd150fp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=519c9d21108b19c527c5ecb931fd150fp=1//a

As expected, Research in Motion (RIM) on Wednesday launched its on-device application store for BlackBerry smartphones, called BlackBerry App World.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=783cbea46aab8062c4593e2163abf055p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=783cbea46aab8062c4593e2163abf055p=1//a

Jaspersoft is adding integrated in-memory analysis functions and SaaS (software as a service) capabilities to Version 3.5 of its BI tool, released on Wednesday. The move opens the way for application service providers to use it to offer hosted BI services.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b5a14c87b406e34f5d636783f93ba7a6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b5a14c87b406e34f5d636783f93ba7a6p=1//a

Forrester Research is now predicting that U.S. IT spending will drop by 3.1 percent this year, shattering its previous projection of a 1.6 percent increase.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3c82692f3a2561507eb898d63078787ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3c82692f3a2561507eb898d63078787ap=1//a

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Microsoft began offering Tuesday a preview of enhancements to the company's .Net Services platform for building cloud-based applications, focusing on Web standards and interoperability, the company said.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3a18d0394098e30a42979ac78d88bf5cp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3a18d0394098e30a42979ac78d88bf5cp=1//a

Global IT spending is expected to decline nearly 4 percent#160;in 2009 over the previous year as industry watchers confirm the current recession will see more losses than the dot-com bust in 2001, Gartner reports.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f70e15b7721e3a38563d7da12afac085p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f70e15b7721e3a38563d7da12afac085p=1//a

Zend Technologies is putting the finishing touches to Zend Server, a new Web applications server aimed at mission-critical PHP applications. In beta testing since Feb. 18, the final version is now about a week from launch.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cef371047217a56010e6ca40634a5352p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cef371047217a56010e6ca40634a5352p=1//a