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Novell is ready to begin beta testing its Pulse enterprise social networking and collaboration suite. Attendees at next week’s BrainShare conference will be the first to get access to the beta preview version of Pulse, which Novell plans to launch in final form in the second half of this year.

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Novell’s Pulse enterprise 2.0 suite goes beta next week

The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems , both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies’ Web strategies.

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Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash

Microsoft has given software developers a lot to think about with Windows Phone 7 . And at the company’s yearly Mix conference this week, a lot of them were doing just that

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The pros and cons of developing apps for Windows Phone 7

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

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Microsoft sweetens the pot for desktop virtualization

IBM and insurance provider Assurant Solutions have come up with a project that, in the manner of dating services like eHarmony, uses analytics to match up call center callers with the most appropriate representative.

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IBM, insurer develop ‘eHarmony for the call center’

Microsoft revealed this week at its Mix10 conference for Microsoft-oriented Web developers that its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile OS will not include a clipboard capability for copy-and-paste operations — at least not in the first version.

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No copy-and-paste in Windows Phone 7 OS

Oracle’s commitment to Java and the ubiquity of the technology were stressed Wednesday by Java founder James Gosling in a presentation that also centered on the recently released Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 6 specification.

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Java founder emphasizes Oracle’s commitment

James Gosling, considered the father of Java , offered some brief and positive perspectives on enterprise Java, the Java GlassFish application server, and the JavaFX multimedia platform Tuesday evening, but he was not so positive in his comments about the Java Community Process (JCP) for amending Java specifications.

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Java pioneer distances himself from JCP

Google on Tuesday began selling its Nexus One phone for AT&T’s network, but only a full-price version is available, highlighting the challenges the search giant faces in trying to achieve its vision of an open mobile environment. The AT&T phone costs $529

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Google starts selling full-price Nexus One on AT&T