Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise: Announces Salesforce for Google Apps (Mashable)
Google and Salesforce.com have announced the launch of a jointly developed product that integrates the key features of Google Apps with the key features of Salesforce.com, the leader in web-based CRM software with more than 41,000+ corporate customers. Called “Salesforce for Google Apps,” the new product is available immediately at no cost to Salesforce.com customers, and includes tight integration with Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk.

Windows XP fans don’t want it to XPire
A petition to “Save Windows XP” has drawn more than 111,000 supporters — and continued shots across the Microsoft XP vs. Vista bow, a battle that began with Vista’s release last year.

Everyone’s a Conductor With New Game 
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Wave the baton too slowly and the orchestra arrayed on the screen plays the “William Tell Overture” at a crawl. Wave it too fast and the music gallops away. But would-be Leonard Bernsteins who wave the remote control correctly as they try out “UBS Virtual Maestro” can experience a small part of what it’s like to be a conductor.

Nervous System For Airplanes, Bridges And Other Structures Should Improve Safety
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2008) — Technical structures will soon have their own nervous system. Developers and users expect this to bring greater safety, maintenance activities only when required, and a more efficient use of material and energy.

Firefighting beetle robots may help humans fight forest fires
Hamburg, Germany – Compact robots that scuttle across the landscape like enormous armour-plated beetles may one day help humans fight deadly forest fires in remote areas, according to a team of German scientists.

Sleep, Baby, Sleep: Parents’ Behavior Has Direct Impact On Children’s Sleep Problems
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2008) — Parents who want their babies to sleep through the night would be wise to avoid co-sleeping arrangements or feeding their children evening snacks beyond early infancy. According to a Université de Montréal study the way parents put their babies to bed has a direct impact on how well children sleep when they reach four to six years old.

Muscle Weakness Found in Some Autistic Children
Genetic defect in mitochondria might explain other aspects of the disorder, researcher says

Girls In Sports At Record High, Yet Many Not Active Enough, Report Says
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2008) — A report released to be released on April 14 by the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport shows that girls are participating in sports in record numbers, but their participation in physical activity outside of organized sports is declining, especially as they move from childhood into adolescence.

Drinking May Raise Breast Cancer Risk
Effect was especially strong for estrogen-sensitive tumor types, study found.

Breast Cancer Vaccine Works Against Deadlier Form of Disease
It reduced mortality among women with HER2 malignancies, study shows.

Parkinson Transplants Survive At Least 16 Years
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2008) — Transplanted cells to help patients with Parkinson’s disease can survive in the brain for over one and half decades. However, some of the transplanted cells developed Parkinson-like features which is very surprising. These are the main findings of a study on grafting of new neurons to the brain in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Scientists claim videos are proof of Alzheimer’s breakthrough
An injection that dramatically relieved the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease within minutes would qualify as the discovery of the decade. That is exactly what was claimed yesterday for an experimental treatment being tested in America. Scientists at the Institute for Neurological Research at the University of California have treated around 50 patients at a private clinic by injecting an anti-arthritic drug, etanercept, into the spinal column in the neck and then tilting the patients to encourage the drug to flow to the brain. They claim 90 per cent respond to the treatment, usually within minutes, and have released videos of patients to prove it.

Wine May Protect Against Dementia, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2008) — There may be constituents in wine that protect against dementia.

Personality Study Shows Risk Of First Depression Episode Late In Life
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2008) — Even after the age of 70, people prone to feelings of anxiety, worry, distress and insecurity face a risk for a first lifetime episode of clinically significant depression, according to a unique study led by a University of Rochester Medical Center researcher.

Psyche! Fire Ants Play Dead
Opossums do it, some snakes do it and even big bison do it. Now a new study now shows fire ants do it, too. When threatened by danger, the young insects will play dead to fake out an attacker.

Hitchcock was right: Birds cooperate in task-solving, experts claim
Hamburg, Germany – Hitchcock was right: Birds do cooperate to solve tasks which no individual bird could master alone, according to a team of German scientists. Until now, such group problem-solving efforts have been thought to be restricted to humans and other primates, such as chimpanzees. But the team of scientists headed by Dr. Amanda Seed at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, discovered the same group techniques used among pairs of rooks.

Peru says Yale has over 40,000 Machu Picchu relics
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru says Yale University researchers took more than 40,000 artifacts from the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 1900s, or 10 times the original estimate, the state news agency reported on Sunday. 

Unusual Earthquake Swarm Off Oregon Coast Puzzles Scientists
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2008) — Scientists at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center have recorded more than 600 earthquakes in the last 10 days off the central Oregon coast in an area not typically known for a high degree of seismic activity.