News to know for April 14, 2008, features stories about: Salesforce and Google, swarm intelligence, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Sun Microsystems' data center, and much more.
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Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps TechmemeMary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City Cloud computing in depth:
- Dion Hinchcliffe: Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
- Dana Gardner: Google App Engine creation process live on Twitter
- Garett Rogers: The problem with Google Apps Engine
- Joe McKendrick: Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?
- Phil Wainewright: Google: App Engine 'not fit for business'. Is Facebook a PaaS contender?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Google Cloud draws open source
- Surprise! IBM brings SOA to the real world with new tools
- 10+ dumb business decisions that can take a company down

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
Christopher Dawson: My kid hates Linux
Amazon: Storage Space, The Final Frontier Larry Dignan: AMD's CTO steps down; Chipmaker says bench strongFCC to look into firms' use of customer data
Tom Foremski: A lawyer inside your PC - British software can flag corporate nefariousness TechCrunch: GrandCentral Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can't Go Dead Michael Krigsman: Absolutely amazing: Integrator completes ERP project on-time Heather Clancy: Sun revs its data center efficiency message- When should you tackle that data center rationalization project?
- Harry Fuller: Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
Photos (right): San Francisco's greenest home?
Georgia patients' records exposed on Web for weeks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! ... but where to?- Dana Blankenhorn: The Linux lesson Windows needs
- Dignan: Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight
- Foley: Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated
iPhone beta presages A2DP, GPSRyan Stewart: Two new desktop applications for FriendFeed Richard Koman: FCC fines stores over TV labeling TorrentFreak: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks” Dave Greenfield: The one thing Asterisk has been missing

Oracle preps critical database patches
Rik Fairlie: How to network Outlook using Google Apps
Images: Eyephone explains where you are
Jason Perlow: Progress on standardizing the @#$%! chargers
Hulu: Sharing is good
Computerworld: Three different hackers found 'Pwn To Own' bug