If you’re considering a new Cloud CRM system, here’s an interesting perspective from Lauren Carlson, of Software Advice. Her article shares the top 5 Cloud CRM applications she believes are worth consideration before you make your decision where to go in the cloud.

Two topics have popped up recurrently in the field of technology news recently: the new, sweeping changes to Facebook and the flurry of rumors surrounding the upcoming iPhone 5. Recently, it was announced that one of the developments related to the topic is tied to the latter – Facebook is apparently unveiling an iPad app at the October 4 iPhone 5 preview event.

According to Mashable, the iPad app for Facebook has been in development since earlier this year and was prepared for release several months ago, but was held back due to conflicts of interest between Apple and Facebook. The two companies have apparently patched up their differences, as a result of the mutual benefits inherent in a partnership between them.

The news source reports that a new version of Facebook’s iPhone app may also be debuted at the iPhone 5 media event, along with a project allowing developers of Facebook applications to make their software compatible with various mobile devices. App

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Last week Google opened up Photovine for everyone with an iOS device. The service combined Instagram with something similar to Color, and it looked fairly promising. Now Google has announced that the service will be cut off just a week after opening to the public.

Photovine will join all other products made by the Slide team, save for Prizes.org. The other apps killed off include Pool Party, Disco, and Video Inbox. Almost all of the products were riffs on existing services, though they were all invite-only save for Photovine. Why were the services killed off so quickly? One explanation is that the CEO of Slide, Max Levchin has decided to leave Google. In a blog post, Slide says that “many of these products are no longer as active or haven’t caught on as we originally hoped.”

If you’ve used any of the services, Slide is working on ways to export your content. Slide.com will have the option to export your photos to a Picasa album, for example. Not sure what this means for Photovine, which will be losing it’s relatively new community. There are vines on the service begging Google not to close it down, but it’s doubtful that it will work. One thing’s

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Microsofts Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages.

We apologize for the inconvenience that the [Office 365] outage has caused today. Were [sic] are working on resolving the issue, read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsofts cloud-services Twitter account.

Around 20 minutes later, Microsofts official Office 365 Twitter account posted: Investigating service issues. Expect more service updates will be available via the Service Health Dashboard.

Meanwhile, some Office 365 customers seemed less than pleased with the outage. The Web interface is 503 error, our exchange clients are all offline, read a typical post on one Office 365 forum. Some of them have come back online, but it looks like they are the exception, not the rule. Others also reported issues with accessing the platforms service status page.

Office in the Cloud just Evaporated, wrote another on the same forum. Need some new weather patterns.

As of 5 p.m. EST on Aug. 17, Microsoft spokespeople had yet to respond to eWEEKs request for comment on when full Office 365 service will be restored and what technical issues, if any, caused the problem.

Microsoft launched the final version of Office 365, its cloud-based productivity software, with a June event in New York City hosted by CEO Steve Ballmer. Read full article…

The latest camera by Panasonic to hit the market is the 14.1MP Lumix DMC-LS5 which is supposedly apt for shooting in low-light conditions. This camera powered by AA batteries and features 720p High Definition video capabilities.

It is endowed with a 26mm wide-angle 5x optical zoom lens which apparently delivers high quality performance. The device also possesses something called Intelligent Auto mode or iA, enabling users to automatically obtain certain enhancing features for which they don’t have to manually make any setting adjustments.

The camera includes the face detection feature by virtue of which the camera automatically recognizes human faces and keeps them in focus while taking pictures. The second functionality is that of optical image stabilization or O.I.S. It reduces the incidence of blur caused by hands shaking while clicking photos. This device is capable of identifying the environment and fixing the best shooting parameter on the basis of portrait, scenery, night portrait, night scenery and macro. It’s possible to do so by the intelligent scene selector function.

“The Lumix LS5 is the ideal digital camera for an entry-level user who wants an extremely easy to use digital camera that does not sacrifice image quality. With

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I was quite surprised with the setup. I know that they are bringing Nikon D2X in space. However, I did not expect such complications when it is to be used outside the space station.

The Nikon D2X is a standard one but the firmware is slightly customized and some lubricant modification is done. The white color thing is the White Thermal Blanke that house the Flash .

And in order to take pictures in low light condition, a modified Nikon SB-29 sync cord  that allows them to use an auto focus illuminator in low light. There is no wireless transmitter in the setup.

And how does the pictures look?