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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Here's a frustration we can all expect to see increase in the next three months: A reader, Brent Smithline, was trying to get a Windows XP-based PC before the June 30 date after which Microsoft will no longer provide new licenses to retailers and PC makers (white-box system builders have ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Google tonight stepped into the burgeoning cloud computing game, launching Google App Engine, a Web services initiative that allows developers to host applications on Google's infrastructure.
Available free to the first 10,000 developers, the service taps a fully scalable Web platform with Python-based application servers, GFS (Google File System), and BigTable ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Google tonight stepped into the burgeoning cloud computing game, launching Google App Engine, a Web services initiative that allows developers to host applications on Google's infrastructure.
Available free to the first 10,000 developers, the service taps a fully scalable Web platform with Python-based application servers, GFS (Google File System), and BigTable ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
News reports suggest that Microsoft will ship its successor to the unloved Windows Vista "sometime" in 2009. Microsoft has been mum on Windows 7's plans, though late 2009 to late 2010 has been the release date the company has consistently hinted at. So those "Windows 7 in 2009" news reports ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The U.S. FCC's auction of wireless spectrum was not without its share of controversy.
Leading up to and throughout the process Google's bid garnered the most attention. What would the search-engine-turned-online-advertising-giant want with a wireless band, anyway?
A story by New York Times reporter Miguel Helft contends that, in actuality, ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Times are tight all around, and iPhone resellers are not exempt. While the people who try to turn a dollar buying up and reselling Apple's mobile phone are suffering under the current shortage of iPhones, there is a surplus of rumors about an imminent new model from Apple.
According to this ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Microsoft's announcement today that it would keep Windows XP (Home edition only) available until June 30, 2010 -- not June 30, 2008, as originally planned -- for the emerging class of ultra-low-cost PCs (ULCPCs) is the second crack in the wall in Microsoft's pig-headed insistence that it will stop selling ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Ever get the feeling upper management is playing darts with the company's strategic direction? Well, thanks to new research from an IBM IT specialist and a 10th grader, you will soon have the technology to incorporate scatter-shot directives directly into the enterprise in real time.
In a paper entitled "Real-time data ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Own an iPhone?
Then chances are pretty good that you're satisfied with that device, at least according to Rubicon Consulting and its survey of U.S. iPhone users, which determined that 75 percent of respondents are experiencing "very high levels of satisfaction."
Chances are pretty strong, too, that you were already one ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Most folks -- even tech CEO's -- don't carry around four handhelds, but Ralph de la Vega, the chief executive of AT&T Mobility does.
According to this Washington Post article, in fact, de la Vega cites those devices to make the case that "AT&T's wireless business is practicing open network ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
MonoDevelop, an IDE for Mono, was released Friday, the leader of the project said.
Miguel de Icaza, who has shephered the Mono project, said the IDE has shipped after being in development for four years. Mono is an open source version of Microsoft's .Net Framework.
"MonoDevelop 1.0 is designed mostly ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
ActiveState released its Komodo IDE 4.3 for dynamic languages this week, with improvements in areas such as code-finding.
Komodo IDE 4.3 enables developers to build applications using dynamic languages and "open" technologies, the company said. The company also announced an open source version of its Komodo Edit editor for dynamic languages.
Version ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Serena Software on Monday will tout plans to offer several of its products via SaaS.
The first product to be offered via this format will be Serena Mariner, the company's project and portfolio management (PPM) tool. Mariner offers visibility into project status and metrics to ensure the right persons are on ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Google Sites' ease-of-use, tight integration with Google services strengthens company's position in Web-app race
Google today unveiled a powerful new weapon in its arsenal of lightweight Web-based productivity applications: a tool for easily and collaboratively creating and editing Web sites. Dubbed Google Sites, it's built around JotSpot, the wiki ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Why would a search engine company like Google participate in social networking? Because of the indirect benefit the company derives, a Google official said at the Adobe Engage conference in San Francisco on Monday.
"Google really does believe that its fate is directly to the Web," said Joe Kraus, director ...
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