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• Evernote to offer its idea- and note-capture tool for businesses, CEO says

  Evernote will launch a business program in the coming months, allowing administrators to better control security and data, company CEO Phil Libin said on Friday.

• Yammer buys OneDrum for Office collaboration tools

  Enterprise social networking vendor Yammer said Wednesday it has purchased OneDrum, maker of software that allows users to work on Microsoft Office documents and other files collaboratively. Terms were not disclosed.

• Adobe to reduce enterprise software investment

  Adobe will cut 750 jobs and reduce its investment in enterprise software as part of a broader plan to target the fast-growing markets for digital media and digital marketing products, the company said Tuesday.

• Google puts Desktop app out to pasture

  Google is retiring Desktop, an application it launched in 2004 that is designed to let people search for files and data stored in their computers' hard drives.

• Customer accuses Infor of betrayal in software lawsuit

  An Infor customer is alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor betrayed a long-standing trust between the companies in order to sell it software that utterly failed to perform as promised.

• Adobe, EchoSign face patent infringement suit

  Adobe Systems and EchoSign, the electronic signatures company it acquired Monday, were sued on Tuesday by RPost, another electronic signature services company, for alleged infringement of five of its patents relating to electronic signature services.

• Adobe acquires electronic signature company EchoSign

  Adobe Systems said on Monday that it has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation, for an undisclosed amount.

• Google to add offline storage to Apps by year end

  Google is working to restore offline storage capabilities for its Apps productivity software and should have it done by the end of the year, according to a senior company official on Wednesday.

• Childcare centre consolidates print fleet, goes with Canon

  Plagued with out-of-date photocopiers and paper-based systems, Sesame Lane Child Care was forced to look for a system to help automate document management and control business process from a central location.

• Box.net closes $48M funding round

  In yet another sign of cloud-hosted software's momentum in the business market, Box.net, which makes a software-as-a-service content management application, announced on Thursday that it has closed a $US48 million funding round.

• Oracle makes a fresh run at SharePoint

  Oracle is hoping to make new inroads against the likes of Microsoft SharePoint with WebCenter Suite 11g, which was announced Tuesday.

• IBM buys Clarity Systems for financial software

  IBM said Thursday it has purchased financial governance software maker Clarity Systems. Terms were not disclosed.

• Google Search Appliance now indexes Apps suite

  The Google Search Appliance, an enterprise search device loaded with Google search software, is now able to crawl, index and retrieve data stored in the company's Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite.

• New Adobe Reader sandboxed, simplified

  Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Adobe Reader X"), tightened security and, for the browser version, a substantially reduced user interface. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Adobe Acrobat, has been upgraded as well.

• Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones

  A hosted application for securing shared corporate documents is being extended to handheld devices. With WatchDox, mobile users can view and even selected documents, but be prevented from saving, printing, or forwarding them, if desired.