| Study: Wi-Fi Makes Our Trees Sick Data centers hum day and night. More often than ever before we connect to these cloud environments through Wi-Fi networks. According to PCWorld, now it looks like the radiation from Wi-Fi networks is making our trees sick. According to the study, translated from Dutch using Google Translate, trees in urban areas of the Netherlands showed an increasing number of damage such as cracks, bumps,... Continue Reading » Marketo: SaaS Provider on a Quest for an IPO Marketo raised $25 million from Institutional Investor Partners (IVP) and existing investors this week. Chief Executive Officer Phil Fernandez says the investment will help position the company for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). IVP has funded companies such as Netflix, Twitter and Zynga. Previous Marketo investors also participated in the funding round. Those investors include InterWest... Continue Reading » Salesforce.com's Chatter to Go Freemium (Updated) Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reportedly told analysts today that the company will announce a free version of its enterprise activity stream product Chatter at the annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco next month. The revelation came in a conference call with financial analysts to discuss the company's third quarter financial results, according to CRN. Benioff confirmed the story via Twitter... Continue Reading » Run Desktop Apps in the Cloud for Free with Spoon Spoon gives users the ability to run desktop applications, including OpenOffice.org, TweetDeck and Autodesk's Design Review and Inventor Fusion Technology Preview from the cloud. Users need only sign-up for an account and install a browser plugin. The applications behave exactly like actual local desktop apps, except perhaps a tad slow. You can open and save files on your local hard drive as... Continue Reading » Why President Clinton's Team Is Changing its Tune About Tweeting From Salesforce.com Event President Bill Clinton has been in a bit of a blogger firestorm this week following his camp's demand that there would be no tweeting or live blogging at his keynote session at the Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com event in a few weeks. We reported Tuesday about an email message we received from the public relations firm representing Salesforce.com, which laid out the Clinton team's... Continue Reading » WeeklyPoll: Microsoft's 'To The Cloud' TV Campaign Microsoft has launched an advertising campaign with the catch phrase: "To the Cloud." Typical for Microsoft, some people love the advertisements and others think the campaign is just awful. The campaign will run across television, magazines, the Web, billboards and airport signs. It is designed to show the customer benefits of cloud computing. According to WinRumors, Microsoft is also kicking... Continue Reading » | 
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