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IT departments should be extremely wary of allowing staff to use Apple’s mobile handset as it does not contain the necessary functionality to comply with basic corporate security, analysts warned in a research note released on Thursday. The iPhone will be launched in the US on Friday.
Gartner lists the following reasons to steer clear of [...]

SAP, back in January, made an extensive commitment to blogging, collaborative wikis and other methods to canvas opinion from its nearly 900,000-strong SAP developer network (SDN).
In a speech at the software maker’s recent Mastering SAP Technologies conference, Rolf Schumann, SAP director and EMEA chief technology officer, said the focus on collaboration has seen software quality [...]

Speaking at an event in Paris on Tuesday, Schmidt was questioned on whether, as Google’s boss and an Apple board member, he had any insights into future collaboration between the two companies. “What you are really asking is to see my iPhone,” he quipped before producing a handset from his pocket. “iPhone is a powerful [...]

The software giant’s general manager of SharePoint tools and platforms, Derek Burney, announced Community Kit for SharePoint at last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US.
Enterprise RSS vendor NewsGator said it has enhanced SharePoint’s feed subscribing tools with tagging and an Ajax interface.
The notion of integrating Web 2.0 technologies from the public internet ?blogs, wikis, [...]

As Cisco grows and enters into new markets, the deals seem to be getting larger and the stakes a bit higher. The challenge for the 39-year-old executive, now the company’s senior vice president of corporate business development, will be to maintain that success rate.
Having served as the number-two man in Cisco’s mergers and acquisitions (M%26amp;A) [...]

Workers were still in the process of being notified of the cuts on Thursday afternoon. Some cuts are being made immediately, while others will take longer to implement, said Palm spokesman Jim Christensen.

The Mujahideen Secrets 2 software was promoted as the first Islamic program for secure communications through networks with the highest technical level of encoding.
The software, available free on the password-protected Ekhlaas.org site which often carries al Qaeda messages, is a newer version of Mujahideen Secrets issued in early 2007 by the Global Islamic Media Front, [...]

Apple also said it would let people rent films over the web with upgrades to its iTunes online media store, a technological challenge to a movie industry still largely focused on DVDs.
Shares of movie rental firms Netflix and Blockbuster fell sharply in response, and Apples own stock lost 5.5 per cent since the announcements were [...]

Government agencies have hired more new communications staff in five years than all the journalists working at Television New Zealand, Radio New Zealand, the Sunday Star-Times and the Dominion Post newspapers put together.
In the five years to July 2007, government agencies employed 210 additional communications staff and contractors, taking the total communications workforce to 448. [...]

Brussels will see whether Microsoft broke competition rules to help its web browser and its Office and Outlook products, after complaints from Norwegian web browser company Opera and a coalition of technology firms including IBM.
The move goes to the heart of the companys lucrative near-monopoly over personal computer operating systems, word processing, spreadsheets and office [...]