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Ingres 9.2 Offered With Ease Of Use Enhancements
Support for both Java Database Connectivity and Microsoft's .Net Data Provider has been updated in the upgrade of the open source database software.
Smartphone Business Apps On The Rise
One factor, according to J. Gold Associates, is that access to corporate applications from smartphones is expected to rise 71% in one year and 196% in three years.
Google To Seek Pre-Installation Of Chrome On PCs
If successful, such a strategy could help the company boost use of the browser, which currently stands at less than 1% of Web users.
IT Execs Say Learned The Lessons Of Dot.Com Crash
Generating cash, cutting costs, diversifying customer bases, and increasing recurring revenues were echoed by companies at this week's Technology, Media, and Telecoms conference.
Tech Looks To Raise Bets On Health Care
One example is Intel, which earlier this month introduced a monitoring system that allows doctors to check in on patients with chronic conditions like diabetes from remote locations.
IBM To Link Acquired Telelogic Tools To Rational
Telelogic has played a large role in embedded software for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and telecommunications markets.
Google Crowdsources YouTube Support
YouTube is looking for users willing to make a video to explain topics such as Editing my video, Customizing channels, and Transferring from camera to computer.
Google's Lively Set To Die In December
The 3-D interactive chat environment will join the list of Google misfires when it closes, less than six months after launch.
Symbian Foundation Gets More Members
With a major Japanese carrier on board, the number of companies supporting Symbian's free, open source goal has climbed to 59.
Nokia, IBM Bring Lotus Notes To S60 Handsets
By enabling corporate information to easily go to its handsets via Lotus Notes and ActiveSync, Nokia is making a stronger push for the enterprise market.
Wyse Revamps Thin Client OS For Collaborative Computing
Version 6.3 connects to Microsoft Terminal Services 2008 and supports Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol with 32-bit color and font smoothing.
Adobe Flash Hits Home Run With MLB
During the 2008 season, the site presented video in standard-definition TV quality at 1.2 Mbps in 16-by-9 widescreen format.
Adobe, Zend To Link PHP Apps To Web Users
The partnership will allow for exchanging messages between PHP business logic and the end-user-oriented Web applications built with Adobe's Flash Player and Flex components.
Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced
Just in time for global warming, scientists have sequenced the genome of the extinct woolly mammoth, last seen roaming the Earth about 10,000 years ago.
Google's Gmail Gets Dressed Up In Themes
Other recent features include adding voice and video chat as well as the ability to send and receive SMS messages.
GM's Worldbook Project Aims To Save Troubled Automaker
GM's Worldbook project standardizes data on engineering specs worldwide, to help GM build cars more quickly and at lower costs.
CA To Overhaul Big Iron With Mainframe 2.0
The management company claims mainframes can represent only half the cost of distributed client-server architecture for light workloads.
Sun Gives MySQL A Query Analyzer
The analyzer is hoped to push MySQL query execution closer to the performance range of large commercial database systems.
Yahoo CEO Casts Departure In Positive Light, Lists Successes
Jerry Yang praises the company's tangible progress, despite a tough external environment, and says he'll "always bleed purple."
Red Hat CEO Whitehurst Talks About Slowdown, Virtualization, Linux
In an exclusive interview, Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst opens up about the open source software firm's short-term prospects in troubled times and longer-term opportunities for growth.
Got IT Secrets? This Web Site Will Reward You Handsomely
Article One Partners is encouraging people to contribute their knowledge of "prior art" of important intellectual property.
Capgemini Sharpens Cloud Consulting With Amazon Deal
The company also launched a new group, the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, that will help businesses evaluate and implement cloud services and offer cloud consulting.
EMC's Decho Offers Online Personal Information Management
Decho, which stands for "digital echo," is entering a crowded market of Internet companies offering one form or another of personal information management.
Review: Parallels Desktop 4 For Mac Boosts Stability, Performance
The previous version of the Parallels virtualization package for running Windows and Linux on Macs was a buggy disappointment. Will version 4 be able to win back users' hearts?
Web Site Aggregates Google's 70 Blogs For Easy Viewing
The man behind Beyond Search's Overflight tool believes one simple aggregated site will appeal to users who don't have the inclination or time to plod through blogs.
Hurtful Google Docs Study Tied To Ex-Microsoft Employees
The ClickStream report suggests that a mere 1% of U.S. adult Internet users used Google Docs, while Microsoft Office is in use by more than 50% of adult U.S. Internet users.
Sun Updates StarOffice 9 For Microsoft Office, Macintosh
With its increased compatibility, StarOffice represents a low-cost alternative for companies looking to save on their IT budgets.
Adobe Positions Flash For Multiple Devices
Adobe sees its technology as the interface layer that can take content and format it for use on screens of all sizes.
Ribbit Rolls Out VoIP Developer Platform
The company's communications platform lets developers and carriers create Web applications that use voice, such as one-click calling.
Canonical To Build ARM Version Of Ubuntu
The adaptation of the Linux-based operating system will run on ARM's v7 processors, aimed at mini-notebooks and other mobile Internet devices.
Adobe Bringing Flash To Smartphones With ARM Chips
The technology collaboration may be a boon for Flash developers as it will expand the potential audience to millions of smartphones, set-top boxes, and other Internet-connected devices.
Microsoft Releases SharePoint, Exchange As A Service
More than 7,000 companies and organizations signed up to participate in the multitenant beta for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
Hospital Operator Demos Health Care App For Microsoft Surface
Texas Health Resources aims to improve doctor-patient communication with software for the touch-screen tabletop computer.
CA Unveils Cloud Management Strategy, SaaS Unit
CA unveiled Monday a cloud computing strategy that includes management as a service and management of third party cloud computing environments such as Amazon's EC2.
Novell Keeps Its E-Mail Client Alive With GroupWise 8
Groupwise 8, introduced Monday, introduces third-party editing support, so users can compose e-mail messages from Word or OpenOffice.org.
Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform
Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax.
Another Day, Another Tech Loss On Wall Street
Chips, Internet, and software companies like Sun Microsystems were hit hardest as bad news drove down prices from all corners of the globe.
Google App For iPhone Offers Speech-Driven Search
IPhone users will be able to search the Web without removing their gloves to type or pose questions like "Where's the nearest Starbucks?"
Sun To Cut 18% Of Jobs, Reorganize Software Business
Rich Green, executive VP for software since 2006, will leave the company, and the company's software operations would be divided between two new groups now focused on open source products.
Sun Microsystems To Cut Up To 6,000 Jobs
Sun said the job cuts represent 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce, and are part of a broader restructuring plan it has undertaken in hopes of saving $700 to $800 million.
Zenoss Monitoring Adds VMware Virtual Machine Visibility
Updates to the Zenoss 2.3 open source network management system include discovery and inventory of VMware-based virtual machines and detection of VM movement from one host to another.
GlassFish Gains Developers, Will Sun Profit Soon?
A recent survey by Evans Data found GlassFish ranked just behind Red Hat's JBoss among developer preferences and ahead of several commercial products.
Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.
Mozilla Updates Firefox To Version 3.04
The update addresses nine Security Advisories, some of which cover multiple vulnerabilities.
Citrix Netscaler 9 Swats Web Spiders
Netscaler 9 helps Web apps attain fast response times for high-priority users, while fending off resource-consuming Web spiders, scrapers, and botnets, according to Citrix.
Google Introduces Search Crawler Caller
The software's control panel allows companies using Google's service to index their Web sites on demand.
Hyperic To Monitor Amazon Cloud From The Inside
The software will be installed as an Amazon Machine Image, a virtual machine file format based on Xen, and made available on Amazon's DevPay service.
Spam Volume Drops When ISPs Terminate McColo
Security experts suggest there's a connection to the average of 11.9 spam messages per second in the last 24 hours compared to the 30.1 messages per second last month.
Oracle Offers Web 2.0 'Gadgets' For Siebel, On Demand CRM
Oracle also said Siebel 8.1.1 will be the second major upgrade to Siebel's flagship CRM software since it was acquired more than two years ago.
VoiceCon: Avaya Converts Voicemails To Text With SpinVox
The software works with an Avaya unified messaging system to push transcribed voicemails to employees as e-mails with optional audio file attachments.
VoiceCon: Key Implementers Cite Hurdles To Unifying Communications
CIOs and industry panelists outline how separating telephony and VoIP pushes together groups that haven't worked together in the past and may not really want to do so now.
Opera Unveils Mobile Browser Beta
Improvements in the browser's Opera Link feature allow users to share notes between their phones and PCs, in addition to their bookmarks and recently visited URLs.
VoiceCon: Microsoft Expands On Its Communications Efforts
Investment in unified communications software products can show immediate cost savings and productivity boosts, Microsoft's Betsy Frost Webb stressed.
IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.
SpringSource Acquires Second Open Source Company
G2One is the supplier of Groovy and Grails, a Java-like scripting language for the Java Virtual Machine based on concepts found in the popular Ruby on Rails.
Google's Gmail Gets Free Video Chat
The plug-in requires an Intel-based computer running Mac OS X or a computer running Windows XP or Vista, a Webcam, and/or a microphone.
SAP Taps Former Oracle Exec Wookey To Head SaaS For Large Companies
Henning Kagermann indicated SAP's SaaS for large companies will look more like Microsoft's "software plus services" approach than Salesforce.com's "no software" tactic.
HP To Sell NetSuite's Online Business Apps To SMBs
Under the deal, Salesforce.com customers would swap their software-as-a-service vendor's sales force automation product for NetSuite's customer relationship management service called CRM+.
Parallels Boosts Mac Virtualization Performance
The latest version of the desktop software, which allows users to run Windows and Linux on their Macs, boosts performance 50% and battery life by 20% over previous versions.
VMware Brings Virtualization To Smartphones
The mobile virtualization platform could enable phone makers to bring handsets to market faster, and it could simplify migrating personal data off phones.
Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source
The next release of Actuate's business intelligence software includes more support for its Eclipse Foundation project started four years ago.
Game Developers' Top Tools And Resources
Newbie game developers are finding invaluable tips and tools on Kongregate, Addicting Games, Flash Games License, Gamasutra and other Web sites.
Tech Sector May Be Next In Restructuring Wave
Purchases of computer hardware, software and services have already been affected by the global credit crisis.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Aims To Obsolete VPNs
The DirectAccess features lets employees connect automatically to the network without having to use a VPN client or enter any user name or password.
Web 2.0 Summit: HP, Cisco Chime In On Cloud Strategies
While some companies like Amazon have characterized cloud infrastructure as a low-margin business, HP sees infrastructure-as-a-service as "a big opportunity."
SAP Outlines Updated Maintenance Fee Plan
A troubled economy, tight IT budgets, and pressure on software companies to deliver healthy profits have created a perfect storm for change to ERP software fees.
Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing Smackdown
Microsoft competitors Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Dave Girouard of Google sound off on Microsoft's Azure venture into the cloud.
Installing Ubuntu 8.10 In 12 Easy Steps
The latest version of Ubuntu Linux takes a good thing and makes it even better. Our 12-step visual guide shows you how to get Ubuntu 8.10 up and running smoothly.
T-Mobile's Data Revenues Increase From Android-Powered G1
The company added 670,000 new subscribers, but nearly 65% of those were on prepaid plans, and the company's defection rate was higher than previous quarters.
AMD, Red Hat Demo 'Live' VM Migration Across Platforms
The vendors posted a YouTube video showing the migration of a running virtual machine from an Intel Xeon-based server to one running AMD's quad-core Shanghai processor.
Web 2.0 Summit: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Open To Microsoft Sale
The co-founder also acknowledged Google's announcement that it would not pursue its advertising partnership with Yahoo.
Web 2.0 Summit: VCs Cheer iPhone Development
Considering that 74% of mobile Web traffic comes from the 15 to 20 million devices running the iPhone OS, tech experts are still wild about opportunities created by the iPhone.
LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Workforce
The social networking website is slashing 36 positions in the latest sign that the economic slowdown is impacting in Silicon Valley.
IBM Unveils Mac Support, Roadmap For Lotus Symphony
The 2009 version calls for 60 new features that included developing the software entirely on version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format and OpenOffice 3.0 code base.
Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency
Pioneering use of Web 2.0 and social networking technologies by the president-elect's campaign has seemingly transformed politics, and could influence government as well.
Sun Partnership To Promote OpenSparc In Europe
Europractice and Sun will jointly encourage OpenSparc CMT as a reference design among 650 universities and research institutions across 38 European countries.
Web 2.0 Summit: Google, Wikipedia's Tips On Thwarting Spam Abuse
Panelists suggest using spam filtering services, "no follow" links, CAPTCHAs, patching religiously, and possibly even charging money to deter spammer registrations.
Obama Tech Policy Plans Eyed By Computer Industry
Sun, CompTIA, and other IT leaders weigh in on the president-elect's technology agenda, which includes support for network neutrality and plans to promulgate community broadband.
Economic Meltdown Hits Virtualization Provider Egenera
Egenera says it will conserve financial resources by using its hardware vendor partners to market its virtualization products and services.
Android-Powered G1 Gets Antivirus Software
SMobile Systems is selling software that will scan the device and memory cards for viruses, spyware, and other malware.
Web 2.0 Summit Looks Beyond The Web
Anticipating a future U.S. energy policy more focused on alternatives to oil, the Web 2.0 Summit also will feature discussions with green tech leaders, among others.
Cloud Computing Tools For Managing Amazon, Google Services
Getting the most out of Amazon's Web Services or Google's App Engine requires the right tools. We run down the benefits of Elastra, Coghead, Heroku, Enomaly, and Hyperic CloudStatus.
Dreamforce: Salesforce Tools Emerge From Its Own Cloud
CEO Marc Benioff asserts his customers in effect are tapping into a cloud when they run their Salesforce applications from two U.S. data centers over the Internet.
Firefox 'Porn Mode' Private Browsing Arrives
Firefox's version of the feature will be available to the general public in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, which should be released soon.
Salesforce 2.0 Adds Voice, IM With Ribbit
The CRM software add-on provides voice mail transcriptions and integration of Google Talk and Skype.
Google Chrome Privacy Issues Prompts Plea To Google Execs
Chief among the group's complaints is Google Suggest, a feature found in Chrome and other Google applications like Google Toolbar.
Qualcomm, Amobee Team For Mobile Ads
The partnership lets mobile operators serve targeted advertisements on top of Qualcomm's widget-platform, Plaza.
Microsoft, LG Team Up For Smartphones
In a move aimed squarely at building market share, the companies said they will strategically collaborate on research, marketing, and applications.
Blue Cross Venture Fund Awards $5 Million To Software Vendor
Initiate Systems' software features algorithms that help reduce health claims that need to be handled manually and get a handle on all sources of data from disparate systems.
Photo Gallery: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference
Get a glimpse of the conference where Microsoft allowed an early look at Windows 7, at its first Web-based Office applications, and at its new Azure platform for cloud computing.
Google Patches Android Security Flaw
The company's over-the-air update fixes a browser vulnerability that could enable hackers to gain access to information like saved passwords.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
Vista Security Shines In Microsoft Report
Among browser-based attacks on computers, just 6% targeted Windows Vista machines while 42% targeted Windows XP, Microsoft disclosed in a security report.
Salesforce.com Plans Hosted Web Site Service
Force.com Sites, to be announced at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference Monday, is an aggressive effort to move beyond its roots in on-demand sales force automation software.
Review: HTC G1 Android Phone
T-Mobile is expected to sell nearly half a million Google phones by year end. Does the first Android smartphone live up to the hype?
Harvard Refuses To Open In-Copyright Books To Google
In a letter to Harvard library staff, director Robert C. Darnton said the ramifications of the settlement were too unclear for Harvard to commit to participating in the Google project.
Linux Headed For More PCs Than Windows
Think Windows is hot? HP, Lenovo, Asustek, and other PC makers are developing computers that can give people access to basic functions, such as e-mail and Web browsing, in less than 30 seconds.
Intel's $11.5 Million Taiwanese Investment Puts Moblin OS In Netbooks
The chipmaker's partnership with VMax could help set the stage for a wide rollout of WiMax-capable machines running on Linux in the country with PC makers Asustek and Acer to benefit.
IBM Positions ILOG's Rules Engine To Head Pack
The former market leader was Fair Isaac, whose rules processing system was a favorite of credit card companies and insurers.
Google's Gmail Gets SMS Messaging
Google's implementation of computer-to-phone SMS includes a particularly helpful feature since it assigns the Gmail sender a persistent pseudo-phone number.
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