Software

Google Latitude Let Users Track Colleagues on Maps

A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile…

16 years ago

New VMware Open-Source Client Heralds New Devices

VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and…

16 years ago

Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT

Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers.…

16 years ago

Skype 4.0 for Windows Updates VOIP

The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth…

16 years ago

Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo

Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to…

16 years ago

Box.net Becomes Social Content Management Service

Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more…

16 years ago

Microsoft to Blitz Market with Six Editions of Windows 7

It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with…

16 years ago

Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux

Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free…

16 years ago

Google Earth Beta 5 Lets Users Explore Ocean Floor

Google's latest update to Google Earth includes several new features to view, including the three-dimensional renderings of the ocean floor,…

16 years ago

Google Apps Draws Enterprise Users

Despite summer outages for Google Gmail and Google Apps that left some analysts questioning whether Web-based applications were right for…

16 years ago

Who Is the Best Skype Suitor? Google, Microsoft or Yahoo?

It's impossible for eBay to report quarterly earnings without the usual deliberations about what the company could, would or should…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

Songsmith Sings Microsoft’s Hope

Incubation projects can save Microsoft. The company needs them now more than ever.

16 years ago

How I Harness My Twitter Stream

For the past few months, I've been using Twitter, the microblogging service that you may well be sick of hearing…

16 years ago

Google Finally Enables Offline Access for Gmail

Google's long-awaited offline access for Gmail is here, bringing a sigh of relief to users of Google's messaging and collaboration…

16 years ago

Is Java to Blame for Sun Layoffs?

eWEEK readers weigh in on Sun Microsystems' woes and the reason Sun is laying off over 6,000 employees. Is Java…

16 years ago

IE 8 and Windows 7 RC-Beta Mashups

Microsoft gives and gives more. On the 23rd January, the company extended the download availability of Windows 7 Beta 1.…

16 years ago

Oracle Ups Ante vs. Salesforce.com with CRM On Demand Refresh

Revving its SAAS enterprise applications engine, Oracle introduces Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16. The latest iteration of Siebel cloud…

16 years ago

Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawns Cloud Foundry

The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers…

16 years ago

Firefox Plug-in Lets Users Import Google Notebook to Zoho

Messaging and collaboration SAAS company Zoho updates its Firefox plug-in for Zoho Notebook to make it easy to import a…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

Yahoo Turns on Wikipedia SearchMonkey App but Twitter Is the BOSS

Yahoo unleashes the SearchMonkey Wikipedia application, a Web service that augments Yahoo search results with Wikipedia articles. Will SearchMonkey, a…

16 years ago

Intel, Citrix Collaborating on Desktop Virtualization

Intel and Citrix are planning to bring desktop virtualization technologies to a wider enterprise audience by combining their respective capabilities…

16 years ago

Google Axes Unpopular Applications

Google announced plans to end support for a variety of Web-based applications such as Google Video, Google Notebook and Google…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

IBM Bluehouse Becomes LotusLive to Challenge Microsoft, Google in SAAS

IBM sheds the Bluehouse moniker for its SAAS messaging and collaboration applications, which are hosted in the cloud or over…

16 years ago

Testing Microsoft’s Windows Application Whitelisting Tool

The SRP feature in Microsoft Windows doesn't offer the same granularity of control or change management capabilities as whitelisting options…

16 years ago

MetaGeek Wi-Spy DBx Offers Cheap, Easy WLAN Analysis

With the proliferation of WLANs in businesses and homes, the need to plan and police wireless networks is growing. The…

16 years ago

Microsoft Virtualization Goes Cross-Platform with VMware Support

With System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft adds support for VMware ESX Infrastructure virtualization technology. With Hyper-V virtualization technology,…

16 years ago

Microsoft’s Exchange Isn’t the Only Way to Get the Message Out

Updated offerings from Gordano and IBM Lotus prove compelling alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server.

16 years ago