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IBM, RIM Drive Deeper Into Web 2.0
New WebSphere and Lotus Connections software for the smartphone allow users to build Web sites as well as messaging and calendaring applications.
Adobe Unveils Flash Player 10, 3-D Features
The new Flash Player has several new features Adobe hopes will help maintain the plug-in's dominance in the face of growing competition.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux
The conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007, and the open source operating system is now powering the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems.
Zoho Ties Login To Google, Yahoo
The feature makes it possible for someone to log in to Zoho using Google or Yahoo credentials in order to view and collaborate on documents created by a Zoho user.
Software Piracy On The Rise, Study Finds
Rates of pirated software ranged from a high of 93% in Armenia to a low of 20% in the United States, according to the 2007 BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy study.
Hospitals Will Use IT To Reduce Birth Injuries And Deaths
Premier's Perinatal Safety Initiative will use technology to measure the infant health and cost-saving outcomes of boosting compliance with evidence-based clinical guidelines.
SEC Requires XBRL Financial Reporting By Large Public Firms
The mandate is expected to be phased in for additional publicly held companies once XBRL has become a standard way of making SEC reports.
Verizon Wireless, Mozilla Join LiMo Foundation
The decision to snub Google's Android and its friends intensifies the debate over exactly which firm will have the more "open" cell phone service.
HP Outsources Outsourcing To EDS
HP has been trying to grow its IT services business for years, without a lot of success. Will the acquisition of EDS let it better compete with IBM for big contracts?
Oracle To Buy Insurance Software Maker
Oracle plans to make AdminServer's software a core component of its existing insurance-related products, such as Oracle Billing, Siebel Claims, and Siebel Customer Relationship Management for Insurance.
Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal
The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point for interest in and use of on-demand software among large companies.
Red Hat's Fedora 9 Loads Portable Desktop On USBs
The feature allows anyone with a low-cost, 1-GB or 2-GB memory stick to carry a desktop around for use on any common x86 instruction set hardware.
HP Says Sales, Profits Increased in Second Quarter
HP said revenue grew 11% year over year to $28.3 billion, while earnings per share rose 23% to 80 cents.
Brits Want Microsoft Office 2007 Expelled From Classrooms
Instead of Open XML, BECTA wants the EU to compel Microsoft to support open standards, such as the Open Document Format.
Sales Of Office For Mac Highest In Nearly 20 Years
While announcing the soaring sales, Microsoft also released Service Pack 1 of Office for the Mac.
Microsoft Details SMB Servers, Jacks Up Price
Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 are available in public preview now with full versions expected by the end of the year.
Microsoft Refutes Windows Vista Vulnerability Report
Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report debunks PC Tools' claims that the Windows Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000.
How Bad Is The SAP Talent Shortage?
Currently, there is a deficit of 30,000 to 40,000 SAP project experts worldwide, admits Don Bulmer, SAP VP of global industry and influencers.
Men Accused Of Hacking Restaurant Credit Card System
The U.S. Attorney's office says the men installed packet sniffers to capture credit card data as it flowed through the restaurant chain's computer systems.
Hewlett-Packard To Acquire Outsourcer EDS For $13.9 Billion
In one stroke, the merger would create the world's second largest IT and business services company, next to IBM.
VMware: Virtualization Offers A Way To Recover From Disaster
The company touts its newly released Site Recovery Manager as an automation agent that takes over to shift workloads with existing data to the recovery site.
Google's Friend Connect To Spread Social Data
The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace.
Apple Prepares Grand Opening For Boston Store
The 20,000-square-foot Apple Store opening Thursday in the Prudential Center will be one of the company's largest retail outlets.
HP Confirms Talks To Buy Electronic Data Systems
Acquiring EDS, the world's largest pure-play outsourcer, would immediately turn HP into a major services firm capable of rivaling IBM.
Windows XP SP3 Adds 10% Performance Boost, Tests Show
Researchers said Windows XP Service Pack 3 delivers a measurable performance boost when compared with Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
Microsoft To Release Office 2007 SP1 Via Automatic Update In June
The strategy of rolling out service packs in phases gives the market plenty of time to evaluate the software.
Rocker Neil Young Steals Limelight At JavaOne
Neil Young is using Java to create a multimedia musical archive of his work, updatable with new material and accessible to millions.
ID Theft Monitoring Services: What You Need To Know
Fee-based services say they'll protect your identity, privacy, credit, name, and more. Find out what they can and can not do -- and learn what you can do to defend yourself.
Windows Vista More Vulnerable To Malware Than Windows 2000
Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said.
Intel, Sun: So Happy Together, When It Comes To Software
The joint development efforts have been broader and deeper than anticipated, company executives reveal.
Google Cuts Price, Rebrands Postini Security Service
Google has slashed the cost of its security service by 40% and added an optional protection feature for public Wi-Fi users in its continued efforts to lure businesses to Google Apps.
Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain
The problems with XP SP3 range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.
Sun Has Ambitious Plans For JavaFX
Sun plans to follow JavaFX for the desktop, due this fall, with JavaFX for mobile devices in the spring of 2009.
Microsoft's Windows Vista Spin Merits Second Look
Vista uptake is unquestionably on the rise, but a variety of factors need to be considered with looking at the numbers, says Gartner.
Embarcadero Buys CodeGear
The price for CodeGear, the business unit of Borland that offers software development tools, is $23 million.
Dell Launches Virtualization-Optimized Servers
The PowerEdge R805 and R905 are available with either VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition hypervisors preinstalled.
MainSoft Integrates Microsoft SharePoint With IBM Lotus Notes
The software allows for drag and drop of documents, spreadsheets and presentations hosted on a SharePoint site from a sidebar into e-mails, calendar appointments and task lists.
Windows XP SP3 Now Available For Public Download
The service pack contains all the updates issued since SP2 was released in 2004, as well as new elements, including several borrowed from Vista.
Network Operations 2.0 Helps JBoss Manage Itself Better
The software establishes a simple, customizable agent on a piece of middleware that can report measurements and activity on the application related to its operational health.
Sun Bids For Rich Internet App Builders With JavaFX
A mobile version of JavaFX for developers for use in building applications for smartphones, handhelds, and other mobile devices is expected soon.
SAP Plans NetWeaver Tools That Eliminate Coding From Business Process Development
The technologies will let business users work with developers to quickly create changes to business processes, SAP said at Sapphire 2008.
District Of Columbia Tests Google Apps
Google has "donated" 1,000 user licenses for Google Apps, Premier Edition, to the District's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, according to the city.
Tibco Adds Service Performance Monitoring To ActiveMatrix
Tibco's Service Performance Manager monitors services to detect any latency in response times.
Xobni Makes Outlook Searchable And Social
Xobni makes Outlook social by scanning your e-mail to find connections between e-mail senders and recipients.
After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig
Mike Olson says he'd like to step back from the database world and explore the world of cloud computing.
EMC Upgrades VoyenceControl Network Management System
Version 4.0 lets customers create vendor-neutral compliance templates for network devices, rather than creating a policy and template for each vendor.
Software Helps Agencies Manage Foster Care For Texas Kids
Software-as-a-service KaleidaCare is helping keep case workers up to date on the situations and needs of 463 kids removed from Yearning for Zion ranch.
SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
SAP will offer by early next year on-demand "components" that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.
SAP Teams With HP, IBM For Business Software Appliances
The pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.
Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared
We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.
Microsoft Yanks Yahoo Bid
"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in withdrawing the $44.6 billion bid.
Microsoft Simplifies Game Development With Popfly Game Creator
The mashup can be used to create any kind of two-dimensional game like the original Super Mario, Frogger, or Asteroids.
IBM To Launch Web-Based Application Market
IBM's Blue Business Platform will feature a mix of business applications and services aimed primarily at small- and mid-sized companies.
SAP Plans Wide Range Of Apps For BlackBerry
Due this summer is an SAP CRM app that's been "merged" with BlackBerry e-mail, address book, and calendar applications.
SpringSource Offers App Deployment Platform
SpringSource Application Platform 1.0 is an open source, lightweight version of an application server and will compete with products from Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.
Allstate Flattens Silos In Claims Processing, Tech VP Abbattista Says
The insurance company is halfway through modernizing claims processing as a business process and linking it to its customer information management and other systems.
IBM CEO Palmisano Says New Trends Will Spur Old Company
In addition to data centers, IBM expects to capitalize on the 3 billion people joining the middle class in the next 20 years.
Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'
The companies plan to exploit their common technological world view and considerable talent to build a worldwide network of servers for consumer and business use.
Stanford, Chipmakers Team On Simplifying Multi-Core Apps
AMD, IBM, Intel, HP, Nvidia, and Sun join forces on Pervasive Parallelism Lab to extol the advances of multicore and multithreaded processors.
Interop: Virtualization Is Top Monitoring Challenge, Survey Shows
The job of network professionals is becoming more complex, as engineers increasingly deal with WAN optimization and virtualization, a NetQoS exec said.
Adobe Pushes Broader Mobile Strategy For Flash
Several of the moves will further open access to Flash, including removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV file formats.
Sony Ericsson's 'Capuchin' Bridges Java, Flash Gap
The handset maker's API will let developers combine the clean user interface of Flash Lite with the stronger back-end capabilities of Java ME.
Interop: Oracle Looks Beyond ERP
The company announced at Interop that it will follow the money by emphasizing line-of-business applications embedded with Web 2.0 features.
SAP Scales Back SaaS Product Plans
Technical issues and profit-bleeding implementations prompt SAP to move more slowly with its ambitious Business ByDesign on-demand software service.
Interop: Citrix To Help Build The 'Delivery Center'
The company's efforts include its Workflow Studio suite and NetScaler MPX, a Web application controller that offers service delivery at 10 Gbps.
Former UCLA Health Employee Charged With Selling Celeb Records To Media
The U.S. District Court indictment against a former administrative assistant does not appear related to leaks of Britney Spears' health information this year.
Programmer Hans Reiser Convicted Of Murder, Faces 25 Years To Life
Reiser was convicted this week of killing of his wife, Nina, whose body has not been found since her disappearance in 2006.
First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier
Provision Networks is the first vendor to make Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor the focus of its desktop virtualization efforts.
Sun Offers Tools, Services For Open Storage On OpenSolaris
With its free resources, Sun claims developers can build a network-attached storage appliance based on OpenSolaris in 10 minutes or less.
SAS Institute Unveils Software To Help Companies Go Green
SAS pitches the software as providing a proactive approach to assessing green efforts, before businesses are forced to by new laws or environmentally conscious customers.
Interop: Microsoft Sees 200,000 Protocol Downloads
Senior VP Bob Muglia says Microsoft products will feature "open connections" that will allow outside developers to more easily write programs that interact with its own.
Interop: Adena Health Reaps Benefits Of Video-Based Telemedicine
Video-related technology, such as software for videoconferencing and broadcasting, isn't huge in comparison to the total cost of the upgrade, analysts suggest.
HP Wields Blade Workstations For Mechanical CAD
The hardware includes an advanced network software utility that allows designers working in 2-D or 3-D environments to work over a standard network.
Interop: SaaS Is A Key Driver Behind Upswing In Innovation
McKinsey & Company's Abhijit Dubey said software as a service is becoming mainstream within the IT industry, particularly among small and midsize companies.
Oracle Clinches Difficult BEA Systems Acquisition
After an acquisition that began as borderline hostile, Oracle talks of the companies' shared vision for SOA and a strong partnership in delivering middleware products.
Microsoft Uses Open Source To Extend Systems Management To Linux
Microsoft is extending its management software to Linux and Unix by integrating some of the open source OpenPegasus project's code into System Center Operations Manager.
EU Approves Oracle's Purchase Of BEA Systems
Oracle, the world's third-largest software maker, gained permission from European regulators on Tuesday to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion.
Interop: Lenovo, LANDesk Develop Client Management Console
The ThinkManagement Console lets companies centralize access to LANDesk management, inventory tracking, and reporting software for all client hardware, including non-Lenovo systems.
Oracle Database Susceptible To Rare Attack
"A lateral SQL injection" attack that can be placed by an outsider in a database application using Oracle's extended PL/SQL query language can be prevented, security experts say.
Interop: nSolutions Launches NOVA Change And Configuration Management Appliance
The appliance is designed to help users more easily make modifications to their IT environments without disrupting critical operations.
Microsoft Finalizes $1.2 Billion Fast Search Purchase
Former Fast CEO John Markus Lervik will lead the enterprise search effort, which will include bolstering Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server.
Interop: Dell Preloads Server For Software Appliance Market
The company expects the CR100 to be used mostly for e-mail, Web security, and infrastructure management, such as for acceleration, monitoring, and management.
Apple Updates iMacs Amid Booming Sales
In addition to faster processors, the new iMacs are rated EPEAT Silver and meet the Energy Star 4.0 requirements for power consumption.
In Database Market, Oracle Gets Bigger, Others Hang On
Microsoft was the only member of the big three to grow at a rate under the market average, 11.2%, for revenue of $3.4 billion and an 18.3% market share, IDC said.
Microsoft Windows Sales Plunge 24% Amid Rising Competition
Microsoft posted revenue from all desktop versions of Windows of $4 billion for the three months ended March 31, compared with $5.3 billion during the same period a year earlier.
Lenovo To Make Windows XP Available Until 2009
Hewlett-Packard will also provide Windows XP to business customers that want to downgrade from Windows Vista after June 30.
Think Tanks Propose National Innovation Foundation
Such a foundation would serve as a catalyst between industry and university researchers and seek to expand regional innovation through state governments.
Interop: Vendors Target Network Video Traffic
Blue Coat Systems and eTelemetry are prepared to show off products at the show they say will help protect a company's network from bandwidth-hogging employees.
Interop Preview: Tech Industry Gets Ready To Rumble
The nation's leading business technology event, Interop, gains added breadth this year as it is co-located with Software 2008, an event aimed at software developers, users, and industry executives.
Microsoft Results Disappoint, Presses Yahoo Attack
Weak quarterly sales of Windows software drove shares down but did not deter Microsoft from its $44 billion unsolicited bid of Yahoo.
Lenovo Agrees To Sell VMware In China
China's economic boom has attracted many U.S. tech companies looking to tap into a potentially huge customer base.
Microsoft Hyper-V To Flaunt Advanced Virtualization Features
The beta version of Hyper-V is already operative, and customers may download the more advanced Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 before its addition to Windows Server 2008.
Web 2.0: Yahoo Rewires With Open Strategy
With its Yahoo Open Strategy, the company follows in the footsteps of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft by opening up its software to developers.
Interop: Vettro Mobile App Helps Protect Underground Pipes, Cables
Vettro 360 for Damage Prevention is built on the same mobile platform used to provide services like coordinating pickup and delivery, field service, and IT service management.
Small And Midsize Businesses' IT Security Budgets 'Recession-Proof'
Despite overall economic difficulties, survey respondents say they still plan to invest in technology this year.
Windows Vista SP1 Now An Automatic Download
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese versions, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft Flexible On Windows XP End Date, Ballmer Says
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company could extend the shelf life for Windows XP based on customer input.
Web 2.0: Microsoft's Live Mesh Aims For Simplicity
The company will use open standards like Atom, JSON, POX, RSS, HTTP, REST, and FeedSync to allow for the "it just works experience."
Microsoft Continues Its Work On Oslo -- SOA for Windows
Microsoft has shown it can take a third-part app built with Java and move it over to .Net without changing any Java code.
Gartner Cites Six Best Practices In Virtualizing Servers
While consultants may recommend large-scale systems, analysts suggest companies start small and achieve the concrete server consolidation they're seeking in a first phase.
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