Software

Red Hat: We Need To Get Beyond Techies

The vendor is taking steps to move up the enterprise food chain and persuade executives of the value of its…

16 years ago

Red Hat Projects Aim To Clarify The Cloud

The launch of Red Hat projects Hail and Delta look beyond 'public' and 'private' cloud computing to facilitate greater cloud…

16 years ago

Microsoft Gets Delay on Word Ban

Courts allow Microsoft to continue sellling Word  in the US, pending the results of an appeal against a patent infringement…

16 years ago

Amazon Opposes Google Book Search Deal

Amazon comes out swinging versus Google's Book Search deal, arguing like many before it that the deal will give Google…

16 years ago

EC Delays Sun Oracle Ruling Over MySQL Concerns

The European Commission, concerned about the impact of an Oracle-Sun merger on the database market, is opening an in-depth investigation…

16 years ago

Nokia Discusses Linux Strategy, New Handsets

Nokia VP Kai Oistamo offered an overview of all that was new at Nokia World 09, starting Sept. 2

16 years ago

Skype Sales Will Go Ahead Despite Lawsuit Threat

eBay is selling most of Skype to Silver Lake and other investors despite a pending licensing lawsuit with Joltid, Skype's…

16 years ago

Red Hat and JBoss must bridge business gap

After setting out its technology roadmap, Red Hat Summit attendees call on the open source vendor to address the business…

16 years ago

JBoss chief admits EAP 5.0 launch is better late than never

Yesterday's application server launch provides JBoss with a foundation for growth, tighter integration with Red Hat and cloud computing penetration

16 years ago

Turning virtualisation management into a virtue

Virtualisation held the promise of simplifying IT infrastructures, but ended up creating another abstracted management layer, says Veeam's CEO, Ratmir…

16 years ago

Red Hat Aims RHEL 5.4 At The Cloud

New operating system release and hypervisor development work put the open source vendor on a collision course with VMware and…

16 years ago

Google’s Gmail Outage Caused by Upgrade Error

Ironically the problem started during an upgrade designed to stop Gmail overloading, says Google

16 years ago

eBay Confirms Skype Sale To Investers Including Andreessen

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is one of the investors behind a group which has bought voip company Skype from the…

16 years ago

Reports Say eBay To Sell Skype

Andreessen said to lead group of private investors ready to by Voip company Skype from eBay

16 years ago

Windows 7 Launch Planned For New York City

Microsoft plans on launching its newest operating system, Windows 7, in a high-profile event in New York City on 22…

16 years ago

IBM Tries To Stall Neon’s zPrime Mainframe Booster

Neon claims its software could start a mainframe renaissance - but IBM is getting threatening over licence issues

16 years ago

French Government Quizzes Apple Over Exploding iPhones

Concerns grow after cases reported in France, UK and the US. Apple has refused to comment until it sees the…

16 years ago

Facebook Tightens Privacy Controls

The social network also promises to include the reasons for collecting date of birth information as well as information on…

16 years ago

Apple Snow Leopard Offers More Than Promised

US Times tech critic David Pogue and his Wall Street Journal counterpart Walter S. Mossberg found Apple's Snow Leopard to…

16 years ago

iPhone Gets Bing Search Development Kit

Microsoft delivers a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit and makes the SDK available for download on the Microsoft…

16 years ago

HP And Dell Join Microsoft In XML Battle

Microsoft found itself joined by two new allies, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, in its Texas court battle against a small Canadian…

16 years ago

Nokia Announces New N900 Linux Tablet

Despite Nokia's Linux netbook, Maemo Linux not dead - it still lives on in a niche tablet product

16 years ago

Amazon Profits From Early Cloud Start

Other vendors have arrived on the scene, but Amazon is reaping the benefits of pioneering the concept of cloud computing…

16 years ago

NASA Boosts Climate Change Supercomputer

NASA adds thousands of Intel Xeon 5500 series processors to the Goddard Space Flight Center's Discover high-end computing system

16 years ago

Twitter Still Open To Security Exploit Warns Developer

A cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting Twitter security is still open despite the microblogging service's attempt at a fix, a software…

16 years ago

Another BitTorrent Site Faces Legal Action

Mininova, an alternative to BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay, loses a key legal battle as a Dutch court rules…

16 years ago

FSF Launches “Windows 7 Sins” Campaign

Microsoft has been targeted by the Free Software Foundation, which is insisting in a new "Windows 7 Sins" campaign that…

16 years ago

Climate Camp Uses Twitter To Seize London’s Blackheath

Protesters and police both use Twitter in techno-war of climate change

16 years ago

Ex-Digital Minister Opposes Mandelson’s File Share Clampdown

Former minister Tom Watson MP says the government's new hard-line approach to file-sharing will lead to accusations of undue interference…

16 years ago

Review: Amazon AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Eases Cloud Development

Amazon wants to make it easy for developers to get their apps on its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services -…

16 years ago