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Google Extends Product Search To Android, iPhone
Google Product Search now has increased functionality on mobile devices, including ones that run Google's Android operating system, and iPhones. As Google Android begins to penetrate the smartphone and netbook market, Google has tailor ...
Fast, Wi-Fi Based Bluetooth 3.0 Arrives On Schedule
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has finally adopted 3.0, a much zippier version of the wireless data transfer solution.
Microsoft Feels the Heat with First Ever Revenue Decline
The global recession has brought Microsoft to a new first: a year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue.
Information security: Budgets Down, Hiring Up
The latest research among infosec professionals has found the tide of budget cuts has turned and recruitment is back on the agenda.
Google To Show Off Developer Tools
The search giant will show off developer tools and ongoing work with Red Hat, JBoss and others at its upcoming developer conference
What Oracle Means For Java
Oracle's experience in Java could make it a better home for the technology than IBM, say insiders in the Java community
Online Retailers Offered Carbon Offset Service
Ready-made application launched amid concerns about the future of carbon offsetting
Microsoft Developing Parallel Programming Language
Formerly known as “Maestro,” Axum is an incubation project that Microsoft is working on to help programmers tackle the issue of parallel programming in the .NET environment
Top Developer Joins Microsoft Next Generation OS Team
One of the primary designers of the BitC programming language and the related Coyotos operating system project, will be joining Microsoft to work on its next generation operating system
Windows On 96 Percent of Netbooks? No Way!
A Microsoft exec has announced the death of the Linux netbook. He's ignoring the world picture, and speaking too soon: Linux is still alive on the tiny laptops at least for now, says Joe Wilcox
Twitter Is So Anti-Social, Microsoft Should Invest!
The Twitter service is not a social network. It's profoundly anti-social, says Joe Wilcox. That's why it's important to Microsoft to invest, and break any Google purchase
Beware Of Nehalem’s Virtualisation Risk
Intel's new flagship can cut your data centre's power and space demands by packing more virtual machines in, but think before you put all your eggs in one basket, warns Cameron Sturdevant
Open Cloud Manifesto: Blighted From Birth?
Is the Open Coud Manifesto doomed even as it is officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have backed off, and the group faces stern criticism from the outsiders
Open Cloud Manifesto – Open For Business
Critics say the IBM-backed Open Cloud Manifesto is a bid to use standards to slow down faster-moving competitors
IBM/Sun: The Technology Fall-Out
If the merger goes ahead, IBM will have to make choices: Which database, which directory, and which virtualisation technology?
Recession And Open Source Will Shrink The Database Market, Says Ingres
Companies needing to cut expenses will finally accept what open source has been offering, says database maker
Keynote KITE 2.0: Check Web Site Performance
Keynote's KITE 2.0 software lets Web site developers and implementers gauge the performance of their sites and rich AJAX-based applications.
Can Community-Source Get Apps Built In A Recession?
Community source development can save money and reduce vendor lock-in, by combining the best of the traditional and open-source development models
IBM Puts Zend PHP stack on System i
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM Power Systems. Around five million developers and 22 million Internet domains use PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook.
Adobe AIR, Flash Installations Surge
At Adobe MAX Japan, Adobe announces that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 have reached record adoption numbers to the tune of 100 million installations for Adobe AIR within a year of its release and Flash Player 10 being installed o ...
Sun To Sign EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres
The computer manufacturer has today announced its firm intention to be the first systems vendor to endorse the EU best practices for energy efficient data centre design.
Microsoft Releases Web Platform Installer
Microsoft delivers Version 1.0 of its Web Platform Installer (Web PI), a free download manager that enables developers to install the Microsoft Web Platform or at least part of it. Web PI simplifies the installation of Microsoft's deve ...
Microsoft Silverlight to Stream Obama Inauguration
Microsoft announces that the Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected Microsoft's Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site.
Ruby on Rails and Merb to Merge to Create Rails 3
Ruby on Rails and rival Merb teams have finally decide to get along. Built on the same foundation, Rails and Merb differ just enough to attract avid developer communities that often clashed. However, the desire to build a better soluti ...
Microsoft’s Kodu Brings Video Game Development to Beginners
Microsoft delivers Kodu, a new programming environment that enables users to design video games with no programming skills required. The company will release Kodu to the Xbox Live community in the Spring.