Daily news beat for June 24, 2008

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Jun 24, 20081 min

Nokia buys the rest of Symbian and, to better compete with LiMO and Google’s Android, forms the Symbain Foundation, which will make some parts of the OS available as open source.

Ruby creators warn of serious security holes that could allow attackers to take over an organization’s Web server, and they could affect nearly any typical Ruby-based Web application.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff champions Web 3.0, saying that even platforms are moving to the platform-as-a-service model, and that customers can tap it to deploy enterprise applications without the infrastructure.

Marking its second acquisition in the BI space, Tibco buys Insightful to boost its data mining and statistics offerings for business intelligence.

And WiMax is back on track and set for commercial deployments by year’s end, though it is unlikely to make a significant mark on enterprise IT in the short-term. And in the end, WiMax’s success may hinge on its price compared with LTE. Will WiMax impact your business this year?