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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.

Officials from Adobe Systems and Nokia emphasized endeavors in the application design and form factor spaces in presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo conference Thursday in San Francisco.

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.

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.

MindTouch is releasing on Thursday MindTouch 2009, extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus, the company said.

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.

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.

As expected, Microsoft Wednesday introduced a version of its Windows Server OS for small businesses with 15 users or less, filling in what the company sees as a gap in its server offerings.

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.

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=66b9fbbdba1983617deab9fc8e9fd356p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66b9fbbdba1983617deab9fc8e9fd356p=1//a

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=368dc0a0db84e42b8f2527dbef357ca8p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=368dc0a0db84e42b8f2527dbef357ca8p=1//a

The Fedora Project released a beta of the next version of its free Linux OS with new security, desktop, and developer features that provide a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=4e3a143f658a4a45116ccda64d703e6fp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=4e3a143f658a4a45116ccda64d703e6fp=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=8fdc0aa08bb4b9e103899c5e66f875c6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8fdc0aa08bb4b9e103899c5e66f875c6p=1//a

Adobe has partnered with one of the most popular social networking Web sites, Facebook, to give developers a new set of tools to create applications.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=46e40e643ded1b9c3846286597878e6bp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=46e40e643ded1b9c3846286597878e6bp=1//a

Web 2.0 Expo kicks off Tuesday with the motto quot;the power of less,quot; hoping that thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, managers, and investors in attendance will see Internet technology opportunities within current budget and resource constraints.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b6c6a24d8b234940939677080ecabc1p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b6c6a24d8b234940939677080ecabc1p=1//a

It looks like an old friend of mine, Sun Microsystems, may be going the way of the dinosaur. Sort of, anyway. Or maybe just transformed. We all have to wait and see.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d7b4ef8964a26edf6a71fb4755dc5b6dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d7b4ef8964a26edf6a71fb4755dc5b6dp=1//a

Storage start-up ParaScale is heading into general availability with software that aggregates disk storage on standard Linux servers to create pools of storage that can be used by cloud services providers and to build private clouds.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=16844ade3c2de002a852a25d1da0a370p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=16844ade3c2de002a852a25d1da0a370p=1//a

The much-discussed quot;Open Cloud Manifesto,quot; signed by dozens of vendors in support of cloud-computing interoperability, was officially released on Monday following several days of discussion in the tech media and the blogosphere last week.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7e6c65cde0aa540380dab51e9c7649bdp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7e6c65cde0aa540380dab51e9c7649bdp=1//a

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