Find cheap gas with your cell phone; Automation software adds oomph to applications

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May 23, 20072 mins

Latest network applications news.

Find cheap gas with your cell phone, 05/21/07:  With gasoline prices continuing to soar across the U.S., here’s a way to find the cheapest gas for your car: Try using your mobile phone.

Automation software adds oomph to applications, 05/22/07:  Network Automation unveiled today at Interop a product company executives say will speed business applications by enabling IT and other managers to quickly apply automation technologies to existing processes — without having to write complicated software code.

ArcMail releases 12TB e-mail archiving appliance, 05/22/07:  E-mail archiving and management vendor ArcMail Tuesday released a version of its network appliance that provides 12TB of storage.

Google e-mail confuses paying Apps customers, 05/22/07:  Google recently confused administrators of Google Apps Premier Edition with an e-mail that misstated the number of accounts they will be billed for.

Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay, 05/22/07:  Microsoft released a pair of tools Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.

Apposite, Shunra optimize testing tools for VoIP, Gigabit nets, 05/22/07:  WAN-emulation vendors this week will unveil updates to their testing tools that promise to give network managers more insight into how applications will perform under real-world conditions across the wide area.

Start-up’s appliance accelerates ASP.Net apps, 05/21/07:  An appliance that accelerates dynamic Web applications built with the Microsoft ASP.Net framework is being announced today by a Canadian start-up called Strangeloop Networks.

Business Objects buys Inxight, upgrades EPM, 05/22/07:  Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects SA has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance application and begun testing an on-demand market information service, the company announced Tuesday at customer event in Berlin.

Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?, 05/21/07:  Reports that Google and Salesforce.com are discussing partnership options should come as no surprise, considering the companies have collaborated in the past and firmly believe in the market for hosted business applications.