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Salesforce.com Adds PaaS Rubies to Its Vault With Heroku Buy

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Heroku, a cloud application platform ...

CONFERENCE REPORT

Dreamforce Crowd Fired Up for Benioff’s Second Act

Well, it's Wednesday at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce in San Francisco, and the excitement is palpable. A huge crowd stood in line waiting for the doors to the keynote conference room to open, which they did at about 8:15 a.m. They were supposed to open at 8 ...

CONFERENCE REPORT

Benioff Foresees New Clouds on the Horizon

Salesforce.com has added 50 new features to Force.com, which it will roll out on Wednesday, company chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said ...

Living the Dreamforce

It's about 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday in San Francisco, and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is playing as people file into a conference room at the Moscone Center for Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's speech here at Dreamforce 2010. ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Keeping Your Megasite Ticking: Q&A With Facebook Engineer Robert Johnson

Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? ...

Salesforce.com Sends the Database Skyward

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Database.com, which it called the first enterprise database for the cloud ...

Facebook’s New Profile Design Gives Ads Wider Berth

Facebook brushed itself up with a new makeover Sunday, this time focusing on the layout of members' profile screens. ...

Art Prof Lets World Peer Through His Surgically Embedded 3rd Eye

For the next year, Wafaa Bilal, an assistant art professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, will record his life through still images taken at one-minute intervals by a camera surgically attached to the back of his head ...

Embedded Passwords: Dangerous by Default

The security community was horrified when it learned about Stuxnet, the worm designed to eat into industrial control systems, or SCADA systems, that was purportedly targeted at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor ...

TAT Purchase Could Give RIM PlayBook Interface More Game

BlackBerry device maker Reserach In Motion on Thursday announced that it plans to buy Swedish design house TAT, the firm that designed the T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone's user interface (UI) ...

If iPad Chops Kindle’s Market Share, Does Amazon Feel the Pain?

The Apple iPad, rather than Amazon's Kindle, will likely benefit most from the strong demand for e-readers, according to a recent ChangeWave Research report ...

Cloud Gives Wikileaks Elastic DDoS Armor

Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud ...

Microsoft Files for Patent on Touchy-Feely Screens

Microsoft has filed a patent application for a display screen that would dynamically give users the feeling of pushing buttons when they touch it ...

Ringing In a Scam-Free Cyber Monday

The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers ...

Acer Puts Its Tablet Cards on the Table

Acer on Tuesday entered the tablet PC market, announcing that it will launch two Android tablets and a third running Windows 7 in early 2011 ...

Facebookers’ Feeds Crawling With Malware, Security Firm Finds

Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. ...

Hyperscaling Without Hyperventilating

Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems ...

Murdoch and the Gang Gear Up to Launch an iRag

Media conglomerate News Corp. is working to create a daily news publication intended for distribution only on iPad devices, according to reports ...

Single Sarcastic Tweet Lands Chinese Activist in Labor Camp

China this week sentenced online activist Cheng Jiangping to one year in a labor camp for retweeting a message urging an attack on the Japanese pavilion at the recently concluded Shanghai Expo, according to Amnesty International UK ...

The Android Potluck Buffet

Saying the Android platform is fast is an understatement. Within one short year, it's erupted from claiming a mere sliver of market share to taking second spot worldwide for smartphone sales by operating system, according to Gartner's figures ...

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