The end of Google Wave and rumors that the company is building a Facebook competitor has a lot of people talking about Google ‘s need to get better at social. Fortune’s article on Google’s future growth last month, apart from highlighting absurdity a company becoming “too successful,” speculates as to what Google will need to do in order to continue growing in the future. The article’s authors dismiss Google Apps for Enterprise and move on to sexier fair, discussing what Google needs to do to be more “social.” But it’s clear that Google has big plans for the enterprise.

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3 Ways Google Will Invade Your Enterprise

Salesforce.com is a top provider of CRM software in large part because its application is intuitive and easy to use and deploy. It is interesting, therefore, that many Salesforce.com users are opting for Salesforce.com Mobile because it is even easier and more intuitive to use than the desktop version, according to the company. “I personally like using the mobile app more in some instances,” said Sean Whiteley, vice president of products and marketing at Salesforce.com Chatter

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Anything Desktop Salesforce Can Do, Mobile Salesforce Can Do Better?

I wanted to remind you that we have the first in our series of VMforce webinars beginning this Thursday. The first webinar will take a slightly different angle from many of our previous webinars and will focusing on answering the question “I am a Force.com developer, why should I be interested in VMforce?

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VMforce webinar this Thursday – Intro to Spring

Appolicious , the site that offers iPhone / iPad /Android app reviews and recommendations with a bevy of social networking tools, announced today that it’s launching a revamped Android site at AndroidApps.com (and a companion Android app), a new site dedicated entirely to Yahoo apps, and an improved search engine. The company took hold of AndroidApps.com when it purchased the video app review company AppVee in February . But until now, the Android site hasn’t been able to take advantage of Appolicious’s social features, and it has looked nothing like its new parent site

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Social app directory Appolicious expands Android support, adds Yahoo apps

The other day I posted a blog entry demoing some HTML5 touch apps I have been working on. Within that post I mentioned that I had to ‘roll my own’ REST implementation (just as others out in the community have done)

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REST API sneak peek!

The story about Microsoft and Salesforce.com’s patent dispute is far from over for the enterprise market. According to eWeek , the settlement may signal coming turf battles

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Microsoft and Salesforce.com Patent Dispute – a Sign of Battles to Come?

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

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Microsoft settles patent lawsuits with Salesforce

Jack Gold is the founder and principal analyst at IT analyst firm J.Gold Associates. RIM has been feeling the heat in the smartphone business, along with everyone else who is not iPhone or Android powered. Indeed, Android has even been pressuring Apple’s success in the marketplace with new and attractive smartphones from HTC, Motorola, Samsung and others

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RIM’s secret plan to get BlackBerry out of the smartphone jam

Last Friday I finished off the first few Graph API wrapper objects for the updated Facebook for Force.com Toolkit . The original toolkit had been written to use XML, but as times change the Facebook API had changed to support JSON and OAuth2 . (good move in my opinion, btw) With the popularity of Facebook and the Force.com platform still growing at an amazing pace, the toolkit was certainly high on my priority list for updating

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Updates to the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com – More Examples!

As we announced at the hackathon, we’re giving away yet another iPad in a raffle for hackathon participants.

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We have a hackathon raffle winner!