Databases

Google offloads Performics division

Paris-based Publicis Groupe is buying Google's search marketing division to strengthen its new VivaKi Nerve Center ad technology platform

No more Katmai.

Microsoft goes RTM with SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

The database has finally emerged from beta testing and will be available in seven different editions

Google’s enterprise search device grows up

New version of Google's Search Appliance can index more than three times as many documents as the current model.

TOTD #40: jQuery Autcomplete widget with MySQL, GlassFish, NetBeans

Eleven charged in massive ID theft scheme

The arrested people are being charged with perpetrating some of the largest data breaches in U.S. history

Custom schema generation with Hibernate annotations

Automated schema generation meets legacy database naming conventions

SAS buys revenue management software vendor IDeaS

SAS aims to differentiate itself from larger BI rivals SAP and IBM

Group offers tools to evade China’s Web censorship

Global Internet Freedom Consortium's tools help Chinese users circumvent their country's Internet censorship

McAfee to buy data protection vendor Reconnex

McAfee continues to expand its data protection line through acquisitions, this time with Reconnex's data loss prevention software