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Lockheed Martin Debuts Open-Source Eureka Streams
Lockheed Martin has released Eureka Stream, an open-source enterprise social networking project and is inviting developers to give the technology a whirl.

webOS Developments Ahead for HP and Palm
Hewlett-Packard has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm.

Cisco Launches Cloud Enablement Services
As Cisco Systems reinvents itself partly as a cloud-computing infrastructure provider, it needs to add a set of services to wrap around all the hardware and software it wants to sell.

Engineer Behind Google's Chrome OS Departs for Facebook
Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google's important Chrome Operating System initiative.

Kindle for Android App Released by Amazon
Amazon.com announced the release of Kindle for Android June 28, porting its e-reader software to yet another family of devices. As competition in the e-reader space continues to heat up, Amazon.com finds itself pushing Kindle software and hardware updates in an effort to stay ahead of its ever-multiplying rivals.

Lotus Notes Traveler Beta for Android Released
IBM June 17 released the beta version of its Lotus Notes Traveler for Android software, a free collaboration application for Lotus Notes customers who use a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later operating system.

Microsoft Office 2010 Releases Worldwide
Microsoft is announcing the worldwide availability of Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. While expectations for the software's success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs.

HP Offers Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis Service
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced a security service to help companies reduce vulnerabilities at the onset of the application development lifecycle, Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis. The solution, an early life cycle security assessment service that addresses latent defects in applications and architecture, is available worldwide and provides architectural as well as design guidance alongside recommendations for security controls and best practices.

Google News Picks Human-Curated Content from Pubs
A new experiment Google is conducting on Google News includes a special section that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications.

Cisco Systems Looking to Bring Quad to the Workplace
The company is looking to enable a businesses to use the various communications features in such social media environments like Facebook and MySpace - from profiles, updates and video communications to Twitter-like microblogging, posts, people search, RSS feeds and auto-tagging - that employees have taken advantage of in their personal lives and apply them to the corporate world.

Google Confirms That Google Goggles is Coming to the iPhone
Google confirmed that its Goggles visual search application would be coming to Apple's iPhone soon and also said it would release APIs for its image recognition, according to this scoop from ReadWriteWeb.

Digital Magazine Viewer Unveiled by Adobe
Adobe on June 1 revealed an application for viewing digital magazines, seemingly the next stage in a multicompany battle over the ebooks and digital media market. In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine's June iPad edition - despite Apple's refusal to support Adobe's Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites' rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy.

12 Recession-Resistant Software Investments
IT leaders want to invest more in software initiatives, but the economy forces them to be more discriminating than ever. Forrester Research asked 431 North American and European executives what platform and infrastructure software they'll be spending on in the next 12 months. Here's what they said. Note: totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.