Salesforce Announces On-Demand SOA Feature

eWEEK Technology News - May 22, '07 12:05am

At its developer conference, Salesforce.com is unveiling Salesforce SOA, a new platform capability that helps developers build on-demand applications.

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Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance

InfoWorld: Top News by Martyn_Williams@idg.com (Martyn Williams) - May 21, '07 7:27am

(InfoWorld) - Google and Salesforce.com are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The newspaper said that details of the potential partnership are yet to be decided but that an announcement is due in the coming weeks.

U.S.-based representatives of both companies were immediately unavailable for comment.

Google, the dominant search engine on the Internet, reaches millions of people with its Web-based Gmail e-mail service and other applications such as online calendars, notebooks, and instant messaging. Salesforce.com is a pioneer in Web-delivered applications for the corporate market, such as customer relationship management systems.

They both compete against Microsoft, which is starting to corral its online services together under the Windows Live banner.

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Symbian malware escapes Russia

The Register - May 21, '07 6:40am

Cash from chaos

Malware profiteers have created a trio of smartphone Trojans that send out premium-rate SMS messages from infected Symbian S60 devices.…

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In Pictures: The Top 20 Products of the Year (PC World)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 21, '07 4:00am

PC World - #1 Google Apps Premier Edition (Web applications)Google's Docs & Spreadsheets (soon to be joined by a PowerPoint-esque presentation application) already makes for an interesting alternative to Microsoft Office. Combine it with Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar, and suddenly nearly all of your basic productivity programs and data can be available online. For small businesses, Google Apps Premier Edition adds capacity, support services, and tools for integrating existing infrastructure so that all your employees can use Google's powerful Web apps--no matter where they are. ...

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Free Subtitles = Two Years In Jail?

Techdirt by Mike Masnick - May 21, '07 4:43am

This one was submitted last week, and a few other sites had stories about it late last week or over the weekend, but the more I thought about it, the more ridiculous it became. It's the story of a group of folks in Poland getting arrested after having their homes raided for creating free translation subtitles for various movies. Not only is this considered copyright infringement in Poland, but it could net the pro bono translators two years in jail. This raises the question that no one seems willing to answer: under what logical basis could you possibly see this as a crime worth two years in jail? The most interesting part is that the guy who runs the site that distributes these subtitles claims that official translators often use the unofficial translations from the site. In other words, they're helping the industry in many cases -- and now police time (both German and Polish police) was wasted for no good reason, followed up by eventual court time and resources wasted. Aren't there more important things for German and Polish police to be taking care of these days? More importantly, though, what does it say about copyright law in Poland that creating an unofficial translation of a movie is considered a crime punishable by two years in jail?

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Alltel agrees to $24.8 billion buyout (AP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 21, '07 11:21am

AP - A pair of investment firms have agreed to acquire Alltel Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. wireless company and owner of the nation's largest geographic network, in a deal worth $24.8 billion.

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Staples starts computer recycle program (AP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 21, '07 7:48am

AP - Staples Inc. is expanding its electronics waste recycling program by accepting used computers and monitors that can now be dropped off for a $10 fee at any of the office products chain's 1,400 U.S. locations during store hours.

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Microsoft signs software deal with Vietnam ministry (AFP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 21, '07 12:22am

AFP - US software giant Microsoft on Monday signed an agreement with a Vietnam government ministry to use only licensed programmes in a bid to reduce rampant software piracy in the communist country.

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Microsoft to support Chinese document standard

CNET News.com - May 21, '07 12:00am

The company will sponsor an open-source project to create converter between Ecma Open XML and Chinese standard. Also: new ODF converters.

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Take a sneak peek at IBM Rational's Jazz collaborative ALM framework and community

ZDNet Blogs by Dana Gardner - May 20, '07 9:27am

Read a full transcript of the discussion. IBM helped the Eclipse Foundation score a huge hit with the Eclipse development framework and community. Now the software engineering target is even higher, but the methods and approaches are similar. IBM will in June will unveil details about its Jazz framework and community for automation and governance of complex, collaborative application development processes. IBM will make elements of the Jazz community open, as well as interlace new Rational, Lotus, WebSphere and Tivoli products with Jazz. Jazz is an innovation technology project by IBM Rational and IBM Research designed to help globally and organizationally dispersed development teams automate more of the development and deployment lifecycle. The goal is to integrate and automate among...

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