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Google will launch on Tuesday evening Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google’s own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents, Sites and Calendar.

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Google opens Google Apps Marketplace

If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won’t and individuals don’t have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference. Facebook’s New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know

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Schneier: Fight for online privacy or kiss it good-bye

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

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EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerra

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

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With its acquisition of DocVerse, announced Friday, Google is offering an online component to Microsoft Word before Microsoft does so itself. DocVerse, a company founded by two former Microsoft employees, lets Microsoft Office users share and edit their documents online. The software is an Office plug-in that tracks and synchs changes that people make to a document so that multiple people can work on a file without having to send the file back and forth and try to keep track of changes.

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Google buys DocVerse

Microsoft will officially launch Office 2010 to businesses at an event slated for May 12, the company announced today. Enterprises with volume license agreements will be able to obtain the finished product that same day, Microsoft added. Office 2010 is set to go on general sale to consumers and business without licensing deals sometime in June

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Microsoft will launch Office 2010 May 12

Got issues? Enterprise software sure does.

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Why businesses still hate enterprise software

OSGi, which is intended to provide modularity for Java, is the focus of efforts afoot at IBM and the Eclipse Foundation, with IBM leveraging OSGi in its application server and Eclipse using it in a new framework for accessing enterprise technology. With an upcoming feature pack for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v7,  IBM seeks to make it easier to use OSGi.

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IBM and Eclipse efforts focus on OSGi modularity

The typical home user running Windows faces the “unreasonable” task of patching software an average of every five days, a security and vulnerability research company said today.

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Typical Windows user patches every 5 days