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• Xandros buys Linspire to boost enterprise credibility
  Soothe the Windows pain with us.
• IM to overtake email in businesses
  Instant gratification or perfect sense?
• Oracle slaps Alcatel-Lucent with patent lawsuit
  Handbags at dawn.
• Microsoft readies Google Docs rival
  Office 'value pack' renamed Equipt.
• UK IT chief takes axe to budgets
  Big Brother's credibility crunch.
• Microsoft's Silverlight in patent trouble
  More get rich quick nonsense.
• Readers bored rigid by corporate blogs, finds study
  'Tired, warmed-over press releases'.
• Apple hit by new stock fraud suit
  We're still iUnhappy, cry shareholders.

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• The lowdown on the Techworld product awardsNew
  We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.
• Audio processing is on the move
  Mobile telephony and Bluetooth headsets have given new urgency to research into auditory processing.
• The future of enterprise search
  Future search systems will get to know the user - and communities of users - as much as the content it crawls, analyses and indexes, say observers.

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• 5 ways to build your virtual office
  The good part about going virtual is that you don't have to worry about leaving your data or software on the wrong machine when you're away from the office. The bad part is when you can't reach the Internet. But more and more online applications are offering offline access these days...
• How to ... navigate a sea of SOA standards
  One of the problems with SOA is the wide range of standards to chose from. When implementing an SOA project, the important thing is to pick the ones that matter and use middleware carefully.
• Defining enterprise IM strategies
  Look for features such as encryption, scalability and recording capabilities.

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• Demand and Supply in ITNew
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• HP winning VMware-Microsoft virtualisation battle
  Despite the claims and counterclaims of superiority by Microsoft and VMware - and now Citrix and VMware - it's becoming increasingly clear who's going to be the winner in the rapidly growing market for server virtualisation: Hewlett-Packard.
• Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure
  Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement.
• 5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
  Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents.

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• IBM's small business exchange 
  Nice idea - but not there yet.
• What's your price? 
  We're all prostitutes
• Where's my shiny spacesuit? 
  The perils of crystal ball gazing

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• Xobni for Outlook 1.2
  Outlook is powerful but stupid. Here's an app that adds some intelligence and doubles productivity.
• Quickoffice Premier 5.0
  The eponymous Quickoffice publishes a number of applications for PDAs and smartphones, focusing in particular - but not exclusively - on Nokia Series 60 v3 phones such as the E-series and newer N-series models. We look at two of the most useful ones - Quickcalendar, and Quickoffice itself.
• Blue Coat SG Client
  Software for Windows XP that allows a mobile PC to work as a client to a Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration system.
• Uplogix Envoy - remote management
  The Uplogix Envoy has been designed to make remote management of devices and despite a new quibbles, it does eveything that's asked of it.
• Snort 2.7
  Snort has gathered plenty of plaudits as a free network monitoring package. And as we find out, that reputation has been wholly deserved - if you can find your way around the command line coding in the first place.

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• Automatic for the programmer
  The magic of software is that, because there are no limits of physics, we can keep advancing the technology to meet our ambitions. Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'
• Kagermann reflects on his years at SAP
  In an interview with Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service at SAPPHIRE, Kagermann reflected on his career and how his successor, fellow co-CEO Leo Apotheker, will do when he takes the reins next year.
• Coffee shops, conferences and communities: Getting the IT pro's attention
  Don't neglect your non-IT skills, advises Microsoft's Phil Cross, who has the job of engaging with IT professionals to get Microsoft's "message" out there.

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• Building a case for e-discovery
  Email discovery saved this construction firm both time and money.
• Kingfisher takes flight with roving agents
  An innovative use of networked handhelds improved customer service for this Indian airline.
• Eurodata unifies its comms
  Systems house Eurodata discovered that - when carefully deployed to the staff that need it - unified comms can pay off handsomely.

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