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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Zoho, maker of an on-demand suite of business and productivity applications, announced on Tuesday CloudSQL, a new service that lets developers use the ubiquitous SQL to connect Zoho data with other cloud-based or on-premises applications./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"SQL is a quot;pretty oldquot; language but is also quot;pretty awesome,quot; said Zoho#39;s director of marketing, Rodrigo Vaca, in a a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.zoho.com/general/cloudsql/"blog post/a Tuesday. quot;It is by far one of the easiest and most efficient ways to query and interact with structured data. That#39;s why it remains by far one of the most heavily used languages for business applications.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/testcenter/?source=fssr"InfoWorld Test Center/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/07/15FE-cloud-computing-reality_1.html"Cloud computing/a #160;has ushered in new methods of data retrieval and storage, leading to quot;improved, faster, and more responsive Web applications,quot; Vaca added. quot;But while there are some SQL-like approaches for cloud computing out there, they tend to be fairly limited and not as powerful as the full-blown SQL.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"CloudSQL supports a wide range of SQL variants, including ANSI, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and MySQL./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The service quot;serves as the bridge between the external application and the data stored inside Zoho. It receives the query in SQL, interprets it, delegates queries and aggregates results across the Zoho services,quot; Vaca wrote./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The company has also developed a JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) driver and is working on an ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver. This means developers quot;can just continue using SQL drivers and statements as they already regularly interact with their premises-based databases using JDBC or ODBC drivers,quot; Zoho said in a statement./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Initially, Zoho Reports, a BI and reporting service, will support CloudSQL. Other products, such as Zoho CRM, will support it down the road./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Zoho#39;s announcement represents an attempt to win over IT specialists who haven#39;t been quite ready to embrace the cloud-computing model, one observer suggested Tuesday./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;CloudSQL simply represents an incremental move that will enable Zoho to grow, extending a comfort blanket to nervous DBAs seeking reasons to resist relinquishing control over their data,quot; a target="_blank" href="http://cloudofdata.com/2008/12/zohos-cloudsql-another-step-toward-the-data-cloud/"wrote/a Paul Miller, a blogger who tracks trends in cloud computing and the semantic Web./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"For now, CloudSQL is available at no cost. Zoho, which is a division of the Pleasanton, California, company AdventNet, will monitor usage and decide whether it needs to begin charging for it, according to a representative./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"CloudSQL is somewhat unusual in that it lets users connect their Zoho apps and others in a free and broadly compatible manner, instead of forcing them to use a proprietary tool that carries a price tag, said Redmonk analyst Michael Cot#233;./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Access to data is the key problem for all these [cloud-based applications],quot; he said. quot;That#39;s where the lock-in is, it seems, in such offerings. Whoever controls access to the data can control pricing.quot;/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=59937bc81042088da29a9b236fcdc5c6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=59937bc81042088da29a9b236fcdc5c6p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=59937bc81042088da29a9b236fcdc5c6 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekend"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/black.friday.holidaze.2008.jpg" alt="" //abr //div a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/black-friday"Black Friday/a, whether you view it as America's most chaotic consumer spending spree or simply as an excuse to emshove/em everyone between you and a $3 toaster, is a critical retail event for console manufacturers. a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekend"According to Microsoft/a, the Xbox 360 enjoyed record sales during the frantic shopping period, amounting to an increase of 25% over last year. The company can't resist claiming victory in a battle that a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/black-friday-2008-wii-crowned-economy-still-down/"doesn't involve the Wii/a -- the Xbox 360 is said to have outsold the PlayStation 3 by a factor of three.br /br /Microsoft also expressed satisfaction with software sales, with emGears of War 2/em, emFable 2/em and emLips/em (yes, the karaoke game) leading the way. We'll have to wait until November's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/NPD/"NPD/a results are out until we can see just how well each of those titles fared.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/"Microsoft: Black Friday Xbox 360 sales trump PS3 3-to-1/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekendRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1388457/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fu1Myh5ozf90SFjzwtcLV2rnvrY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fu1Myh5ozf90SFjzwtcLV2rnvrY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=XMHrurxi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=XMHrurxi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=onsKSZqF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=onsKSZqF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/vCWL-LdSuZ8" height="1" width="1"/

**Skip to Nick's birthday!** *Adrienne's in Nick's bedroom about to wake him up* Adrienne: Nick? (a little louder) Nick?? (almost yelling) Nick! Nick: Who is it..eh it's early. Adrienne: It is your girlfriend, of course, and we have to get up early! You have a suprise waiting. Nick: Hey darlin *sits up* Adrienne: Good morning and happy birthday! *hugs and kisses him* Hurry and get ready. Suprise is waiting Nick: Ok.. Adrienne: I'll be in the living room waiting. Nick: Who's driving us? Adrienne: Big Rob, who else? *laughs* Nick: *laughs* I'll be down in a few minutes Adrienne: K *walks downstairs and Nick goes and gets ready* *In the car on the way..to somewhere!* Nick: Is it mandatory for me to be blindfolded? Adrienne: Yes. We're almost there! Correction, we're here. *helps Nick out of the car and into an AIRPLANE! A private one to be exact* Nick: We're going somewhere?? Awesome! Where? Adrienne: Where's a place that you want to live one day? Nick: Chicago.. **BTW they're at their house in Texas! Don't ask about why Adrienne and the girls are there..b/c I don't know** Adrienne: Yep. Nick: We're going to Chicago?? Adrienne: We sure are! Where do you want to go when you are there?? Nick: Um, see the sights and it would be cool to see a baseball game at Wrigley Field someday Adrienne: *quickly pulls out something out of her purse* Nick: Are you serious? Adrienne: Oh. Yeah. Yankees vs. Cubs. Today. We're soo going. Nick: Thank you! That's so awesome! I love you! Adrienne: You're welcome, yes it is, and I LOVE YOU TOO! *smiles* **They're at the stadium. Big Rob is there, too. Of course people have noticed them.** Random Fan #1: I LOVE YOU NICK!!! #2: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I LOVE YOU #3: OHMYGOSH! IT'S NICK JONAS!! AND ADRIENNE! I LOVE YOU BOTH!! #1: (to #3) You love HER? Really? Adrienne: (to Nick) Hey..that's so not cool. #3: Yeah. She's AMAZING! And how good to her and Nick look together?? VERY GOOD! #2: I bought her CD the day it came out! I LOVE it! Adrienne: (yelling to them) Thanks!! We love you, too! Nick: Thanks!! #1,2,3: AHH! #2: They talked to us!! Ahh!!! Adrienne: Wow! They're sooo loud! Nick: You were louder than that! Adrienne: That's true *laughs* *they get to their seats, and Nick sees something* Nick: What's that? Adrienne: Why don't you go see? Nick: Aw, it's someones puppy..it has a tag *reads the tag outloud* It's name is Muffin, and it's owners name is *pauses* You didn't Adrienne: Oh yeah. I did Nick: Thank you so much! I've always wanted a puppy like this! Adrienne: You're welcome! She's sooo cute! I couldn't resist! She was just staring at me from the pet shop window, and I knew that she had to be ours! Nick: She's so fluffy. I love her! Where'd you get the name Muffin? Adrienne: You Nick: Me? Adrienne: Yeah, remember Joe saying that you were a StudMUFFIN? It fit Nick: Oh haha Adrienne: And, back before we met, Tayy called me Hotmuffin... Nick: Should I ask? Adrienne: Probably not..haha **They watch the game then go out to eat. Now we're with Taylor and Joe.** *****NO COPYRIGHT CLAIM. All copyright goes to the owner.*****

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/17169?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Irish+papers+gagged+over+corruption+reportsch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Ireland+%28News%29%2CPress+and+publishing%2CWorld+news%2CMediac5=Press+Media%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CMedia+Weeklyc6=Henry+McDonaldc7=2008_12_02c8=1127120c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Irelandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FIreland" width="1" height="1" //divpA tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report./ppTwo Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night./ppThe public inquiry, which was set up in 1999, was investigating whether payments from Irish businessmen to Charles Haughey, the former prime minister, who died in June 2006, and the former communications minister Michael Lowry influenced their decisions in awarding telecommunications contracts./ppThe tribunal's preliminary report is understood to name more than 12 senior civil servants involved in the awarding of Ireland's second mobile phone business to Denis O'Brien's Esat Digifone company in 1996. He later sold Esat to British Telecom for pound;2bn. /ppThe findings also call into question the veracity of the evidence these civil servants gave under questioning at the tribunal, which was headed by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty. The documents that the two papers were prevented from printing make clear that the judge does not accept the evidence given to him by the civil servants in question./ppIrish government officials confirmed that the present Fianna Faacute;il-led administration will resist attempts by the tribunal to single out senior civil servants for blame. They said this could entail a further battle through the courts between the government and the tribunal./ppGeraldine Kennedy, the editor of the Irish Times, declined to comment further on the legal move. The paper's presses had to be stopped after a solicitor acting for the tribunal contacted her around 11.30pm on Friday with the threat of an injunction. Kennedy said the paper would not be discussing details of the material it was prevented from publishing or allow it to be published outside of Ireland./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ireland"Ireland/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pressandpublishing"Press publishing/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pRFXvyWQVkrQf-89o4_A84hY1VA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pRFXvyWQVkrQf-89o4_A84hY1VA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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