Salesforce.com says this isn’t some marketing-driven move; its customers, through a Salesforce.com online forum called Idea Exchange, requested integration with Google Apps.
Updated April 14, 5:20 AM PDT to reflect official announcement.

This isn’t a new function of Salesforce.com. The company has offered integration with Microsoft’s Office and Outlook desktop applications for some time. But this is [...]

Those assigned to work on the 24-inch monitor worked 52 percent faster than those using the 18-inch screens, and those using the dual 20-inch monitors worked 44 percent faster than those using the 18-inch. But don’t think throwing a 36-inch flat screen in front of your employees will get them moving at double speed. The [...]

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Sony didn’t hold back this morning, announcing a massive lineup of more than 25 new portable audio gadgets and accessories. The release includes a handful of new Walkmans and speakers, but is dominated by a slew of new headphones designed with portability in mind. Perhaps the most interesting of the bunch are the sport-style [...]

Finally, though not related to silicon, all three notebooks have a similar form factor: 13.3 inches. All in all, making for strikingly similar designs in many ways.
To deliver reasonable processing power at low power the Voodoo Envy opted for the same special low-power processors used in the Air: the Intel SP7700 and SP7500.
Correction: The [...]

Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 is now available – OpenSolarix X Debian–Elatte release of Nexenta, which hybridizes OpenSolaris kernel code with higher-level tools from Debian and Ubuntu. Includes Xen, ZFS-compatible apt-clone, CIFS, zones, and live upgrade support.
Fedora 9 alpha is out: "Sulphur"–New: (http://jkeating.livejournal.com/53326.html): "Disk resizing during install (incl. NTFS), encrypted block devices, simplified install method choosing, [...]

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Fred Wilson, with Union Square Ventures, gave a keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo.
NEW YORK–”We are not an alley.”
Disclosure: Fred Wilson’s Union Square Ventures is an investor in Tumblr, which employs my significant other.
But the numbers, Wilson said, show a very different trend. In 1995, 230 early-stage companies in the [...]

“To all, we challenge you: let’s see if we can max this one out. Regarding shipping, orders placed the week of April 7 are currently being shipped. We will be shipping units out of our new facility starting Monday, April 21, including those orders placed the week of April 14,” Psystar said on its [...]

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For now, Miyamoto looks ahead to other projects for the
Wii, mentioning his desire to continue the Pikmin series.
Check out Kara Tsuboi’s report on WiiWare and Wii Fit:
CNET was more than happy to attend an exclusive roundtable Q&A regarding Wii Fit with Nintendo mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto on Thursday afternoon at [...]

Comcast, the largest cable provider in the U.S., has been under fire for months after it was discovered the company had been slowing down peer-to-peer traffic on its network. Comcast had said that its measures to slow BitTorrent transfers, which it voluntarily ended in March, were necessary to prevent its network from being overrun. At [...]

Market research firm NPD Group Inc. estimates that Windows comes on more than 90% of new Netbooks. Microsoft said consumers returned Linux Netbooks after discovering the PCs didn’t easily work with popular programs and peripherals like printers–a challenge that could also be faced by Android, which is based on the core of Linux.

The very [...]