We’re always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world.

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 27 Aug. 2010

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Google Wave entered the Google Apps family earlier this year with what looked like some momentum.

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Why Developers Did Not Adopt Google Wave

Microsoft just announced that it has settled its patent dispute with Salesforce.com.

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Microsoft settles patent lawsuits with Salesforce

Last week we wrote about Google ‘s long term strategy to win over enterprise customers . But MarketWatch reported Friday on a short-term setback for Google enterprise ambitions: the company missed the deadline to deploy Google Apps to Los Angeles municipal employees

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Can Google Solve the Cloud Security Problem for Enterprises?

Security features of the dominant thick-client platform are “usually trivial to implement, [but are] overlooked by a large number of application developers,” according to a study ( view the PDF ) published at the end of last month by vulnerability analysts at Denmark’s Secunia ApS . Blogger Brian Krebs discusses the implications in a blog post  published last week, documenting his follow-up research with Secunia’s rogues’ gallery.

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Make It Easy to Do Things Right

Unsurprisingly, Salesforce is seeing rapid adoption of its social collaboration platform Chatter among its existing customers after launching to the public last week. In its first week of general availability, Chatter has been integrated by 10,000 of Salesforce’s 77,300 existing customers, or 13 percent of Salesforce’s customer base

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Salesforce Chatterizes 10,000 Of Its Customers First Week After Public Launch

Salesforce.com , the world’s leading SaaS vendor, is suing Microsoft for patent infringement, Business Week reported today. As we’ve reported , Microsoft filed suit against Salesforce.com for patent infringement last month

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Salesforce.com Countersuing Microsoft for Patent Infringement

Salesforce.com , the major provider of customer relationship management software, is suing Microsoft for patent infringement — its aggressive response to the suit Microsoft filed against the company for around nine intellectual property violations last month . Salesforce’s lawsuit claims that several Microsoft cloud products infringe on its patents, including the .NET framework providing tools and support for third-party developers, and its SharePoint collaboration and document management software for businesses. In its corner, Salesforce has David Boies (pictured above), one of the prosecutors in the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft.

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Salesforce hits back at Microsoft with patent violation suit

Salesforce Chatter provides a foundation of collaboration features that you can use in your own applications that you build on Force.com. The new Chatter Workbook , just announced here at Cloudforce 2010, shows you how to do this. It’s a gentle introduction that walks you through four tutorials: Tutorial 1 provides a general tour of Chatter functionality – familiarizing you with the basic concepts such as status updates, users, following people and following data, and groups.

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New Chatter Workbook and Cheat Sheet