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• Russian CIOs Plot a Path to the Future via Smarter Use of IT in 2012, Finds Oracle and PwC Report
  Independent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their operating budget on "maintenance." That is compared to 60 percent of CIOs in the rest of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. […]
• BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Preparing Clinical Trial Data for...
  Leading provider of Oracle's clinical trial, data, drug safety, and pharmacovigilance systems will discuss and demonstrate a better way to prepare clinical trial data for reporting and analysis. […]
• Google Apps Marketplace Gets WorkSimple Social Goals App
  WorkSimple, a social goal performance tool that competes with SuccessFactors and Rypple, is now available from the Google Apps Marketplace. […]
• Russian CIOs Plot a Path to the Future via Smarter Use of IT in 2012, Finds Oracle and PwC Report
  Russian CIOs Plot a Path to the Future via Smarter Use of IT in 2012, Finds Oracle and PwC Report Independent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their operating budget on "maintenance." That is compared to 60 ... […]
• Microsoft Exec: Lync-Skype Integration a 'Compelling Opportunity'
  Microsoft is looking at creating a bridge between Lync, its enterprise IM, voice and video communications product, and Skype as part of its broader initiative to extend the Office platform, a company executive said on Wednesday. […]
• Salesforce.Com Shakes Up Standard Support Plan Features
  Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers. […]
• Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online
  Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow. […]
• The Zuckerberg Tax
  Hugh Pickens writes "David S. Miller writes that when Facebook goes public later this year, Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options worth $5 billion of the $28 billion that his ownership stake will be worth and since the $5 billion he will receive will be treated as salary, Zuckerberg will have a tax bill of more than $2 billion making him, ... […]
• Announces Availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data
  Oracle R Enterprise delivers enterprise class performance for users of the R statistical programming language, increasing the scale of data that can be analyzed by orders of magnitude using Oracle Database 11g. […]
• Spammers Impersonate Well-Known Developers to Publish Rogue Apps on Android Market
  Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro have identified a developer named Rovio MobiIe Ltd. […]