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Organizations understand the benefits of social tools, but few are going beyond Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Forrester Research forecasts big growth in enterprise sales of Apple hardware as employees insist on using iPads and even Macs in the workplace.

Rumors fly that HP's board of directors is prepared to oust embattled CEO Leo Apotheker.

Shares of PC maker Dell gained more than 5 percent in extended trading Tuesday after the company reported a near-tripling of first-quarter net income and raised its full fiscal year earnings guidance.

Google didn't highlight enterprise management or data security in its Honeycomb media preview, but the new OS will offer device encryption and future Android releases will likely include the ability to enforce security policies. These quiet additions will go a long way towards easing Android tablets into business environments.

RIM's PlayBook tablet can only access corporate data or policies when tethered to (and in range of) a BlackBerry - illustrating that the company doesn't understand the tablet market and today's IT challenges, doesn't care, or is just out for more BlackBerry sales.

Cloud computing and IT hosting company Rackspace on Thursday announced the acquisition of cloud-server management applications start-up Cloudkick for an undisclosed sum.

The Street is loving Salesforce.com. One day after posting solid third-quarter results, shares of the enterprise cloud-computing vendor soared 20.97, or 18.1 percent, to close Friday at 136.74. Add that on top of Thursday's gain of 5.62, and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has gained 24.1 percent in two days.

Enterprise cloud computing vendor Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal third quarter net income and revenue that exceeded analysts' estimates, sending shares higher in after-hours trading. tweetmeme_source = 'ITworld';

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, the latest generation of one of the company's midmarket ERP products, will be generally available Dec. 1 in 14 countries, the company said Wednesday.

SAP is extending the maintenance period for its ERP 6.0 product, the company announced Thursday.

Sun Microsystems has doubled the capacity of its Niagara servers with the four-socket Sparc Enterprise T5440 system, designed for running corporate databases and ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications.