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Managing your network efficiently is not easy. To help IT pros fine-tune their networks with minimal pain, InfoWorld.com is offering a no-cost, 10-class course via email on best practices for managing local area networks (LANs). The Networking Boot Camp starts on Monday, April 12, and to participate you must sign up on or before [...]

Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services’ cloud-computing infrastructure service.
Starting in May, Lawson’s S3 Enterprise Management System, M3 Enterprise Management System, and Talent Management application will hit Amazon’s cloud.
[ The cloud could provide a new path for ERP as [...]

With the latest version of its Tuxedo OLTP (online transaction processing) middleware, Oracle is hoping to lure IBM mainframe users over to the world of x86-based distributed computing, namely by promising that their applications will run just as quickly and will not need to be rewritten for the new environment.
Tuxedo 11G, the version of the [...]

Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today.
Office developers found the bugs by running millions of “fuzzing” tests, said Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group.
[ InfoWorld's Roger Grimes explains how to stop data [...]

Oracle announced the 17th version of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application Wednesday and made a fresh push into pharmaceutical sales with a Life Sciences edition of the software.
New features in CRM on Demand Release 17 include tools for managing sales pipelines and performing forecasts of future business, a redesigned user interface, and added [...]

Imagine controlling Apple iTunes from inside Microsoft Word without having to switch applications. That could be possible, according to researchers at the University of Washington who are working on a project that could essentially make any proprietary software open source.
“Microsoft and Apple aren’t going to open up all their stuff. But they all create programs [...]

(AP) — One of the most popular sites on the Web – YouTube – is getting a new look.

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Video chat service Tokbox is about to get bigger–like hundreds of people in one chat bigger.
The new service, which launches Wednesday morning, lets users host a meeting for 200 people or less, and in an orderly fashion no less. All while using the service’s existing technology to facilitate several talking heads up on the [...]

Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it has decided to close the Yahoo Publisher Network, the company’s answer to Google AdSense.
The Yahoo Publisher Network, an advertising platform enabling small Web publishers to place ads on their sites to drive revenue, will officially close on April 30. The service has been in beta testing since its launch [...]

Google is adding two features to its Google Message Security, a hosted service for monitoring and managing email systems that filters message content based on pre-established policies and protects against spam, viruses, and other threats.
On Wednesday, Google will upgrade Message Security by making it possible for a copy of a message to be delivered to [...]