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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• CIOs extend unified communications to mobile devices

  By Lauren Brousell | 31 May, 2012 19:15

  A survey finds that IT leaders are accelerating their plans to invest in unified communications and collaboration technologies. But the systems aren't cheap.

• Analysis: How Facebook could integrate with iOS, OS X

  By Lex Friedman | 31 May, 2012 19:45

  Speaking at the All Things D conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook essentially sent Facebook a friend request. "I think the [Apple-Facebook] relationship is very solid," Cook said. "We have great respect for them. I think we can do more with them."

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Browser feature can be abused to misrepresent download origin, researcher says

  By Lucian Constantin | 31 May, 2012 21:43

  Legitimate browser functionality can be abused to trick users into believing that a trusted website has asked them to download a file, which is actually being served from a rogue server, Google security engineer Michal Zalewski demonstrated on Tuesday.

• Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59

  The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.

• Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding multilingual support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:19

  Salesforce.com's Desk.com service is about to add multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said Thursday.

• Oracle ERP project woes force construction firm to delay financial filing

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 18:33

  Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Mark Hurd: Oracle’s only objective is to help customers

  By Anh Nguyen | 02 May, 2012 17:17

  Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to "make it easier" for customers to do business with the company.

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

  By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2012 04:16

  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away, and speculation is high about whether Apple will announce new iCloud features, refreshed MacBook Pros, overhauled versions of iOS and OS X and maybe even a new smartphone during the conference.

• The enterprise app store: 10 must-have features

  By Shane O'Neill | 26 April, 2012 06:52

  Is 2012 the year app stores will break out in the enterprise?

• The 12 best free entertainment services and apps of 2012

  By Megan Geuss | 24 April, 2012 22:52

  Whether you consume it or create it, entertainment is likely a huge part of the reason you love tech. You probably already have a subscription to big names such as Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, or Netflix, and those are all good services, but they're not free.

• Guide: How to use Microsoft Word to create an e-book

  By Helen Bradley | 18 April, 2012 22:15

  Microsoft Word has lots of features that make creating ebooks easy. You can use styles to format an ebook or update its formatting to work on a different platform. You can use the References tool to create a table of contents automatically. And you can produce a design template that's ready for repeated use, so you can spend more time creating content and less time futzing with layouts. Once you've mastered these steps, you can create great ebooks effortlessly. I'll show you how.

• Open for business: It's the year of the corporate app store

  By Paul Krill | 16 April, 2012 20:11

  With more employees using smartphones and tablets for business, enterprises are setting up their own app stores for application distribution, leveraging a consumer model for mobile application access that is tuned to the workplace. Instead of saddling already overburdened IT personnel with getting applications to individual devices, these app stores provide a central distribution mechanism for employees to download applications themselves.

• Guide: How to be ready for Big Data

  By Thor Olavsrud | 21 March, 2012 01:30

  Big Data is all the rage these days, and more than a few organizations are at least wondering what sort of business intelligence they could derive from all the information at their disposal.

• iPhoto vs. Photoshop Touch on the new iPad: Consume or create?

  By Michelle Mastin | 23 March, 2012 00:41

  The Retina display on the new iPad is one of the tablet's defining features, and it makes the device ideally suited for multimedia work, including image editing. Apple’s new iPhoto app and Adobe’s Photoshop Touch are taking advantage of that opportunity by bringing powerful photo editing and sharing tools to the iPad.