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Stallman looks to fight JavaScript trap

Browsers can run non-free software without users' knowledge, he stresses

JavaScript Software Development

Microsoft, Novell ponder opportunities in sour economy

At conference, companies also cite open source efforts

Mar 24, 2009 4 mins

Microsoft won’t let companies host Azure on premise

Microsoft is restricting the Azure platform to its datacenters, shooting down rumors that it might let companies host Azure services on their own networks

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Trade agency pledges to review its transparency

USTR pledge comes after three groups filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking details about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

By Grant Gross

Microsoft sued over Windows Update

Israeli company BackWeb Technologies claims that Microsoft's BITS file transfer technology violates several patents

By Gregg Keizer

Intellectual Property Security Software Development

Today’s IT spending survey laced with a little hope

A limited number of IT shops will increase spending in 2009

Business Intelligence Databases Technology Industry

Sun starts JavaFX coding contest

Sun is hoping to spur adoption of JavaFX versus competitors Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Software Development

Update: Google rolls out semantic search capabilities

New technology will allow Google's search engine to identify associations and concepts related to a query

By Juan Carlos Perez

Mar 24, 2009 5 mins

Databases Software Development

In poor economy, more IT pros could turn to e-crime

Survey shows that fraud committed by managers, employees, and customers tripled last year compared to 2007

By Jeremy Kirk

Data and Information Security Databases Malware

Lenovo offers workstations with Intel’s Nehalem chips

Lenovo is the second major PC maker to announce workstations based on Intel's upcoming quad-core Nehalem chips

By Agam Shah

Dell is 'actively working' with large numbers of Sun customers to move them from the Sun Solaris Sparc platform to an x86 Linux platform

By Martyn Williams

Software Development Technology Industry

Dell promises Nehalem servers, new services news this week

Apple and Lenovo have already jumped on the bandwagon, announcing new workstations with Intel's upcoming quad-core chips

By Martyn Williams

Michael Dell hints at smartphones, mobile Internet devices

Some analysts have also been contemplating an acquisition of Palm by Dell as a fast-track into the phone and mobile device market

By Martyn Williams

Rhodes unifies smartphone app dev

Using HTML and Ruby, developers can build for systems including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Android

Suse Linux Enterprise 11 released

Suse 11, reflecting the controversial Micrsoft-Novel deal, will work 'seamlessly' with Windows in areas like systems management, virtualization, and document formats

Development Tools Open Source Technology Industry

IT spending survey offers hope

At least some IT shops will be spending in 2009

Careers Cloud Computing

Google rolls out semantic search capabilities

Google takes a first step toward the future of search engine technology

By Juan Carlos Perez

Mar 24, 2009 5 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Many enterprises have adopted social networking apps, but Google is myseriously behind the curve and has not added such a component to its Apps suite

By Juan Carlos Perez

Mar 23, 2009 5 mins

InDorse unwraps data-protection suite

InDorse's Discover, Tag, and Protect set of tools lets users monitor and block the use of data on Microsoft's SharePoint platform

By Ellen Messmer

Development Tools Security Technology Industry

Sage aims new CRM appliance at small business

Sage's SalesLogix Today is a software-hardware combination that is also available in a hosted form

Databases Security Technology Industry

Unisys service offers single view of IT infrastructure

Enterprises will be able to reduce IT infrastructure-related service costs by as much as 25 percent while diminishing the risk of IT failures, Unisys claims

By John Ribeiro

Careers Development Tools Technology Industry

Five myths about SaaS

Software as a service is still misunderstood by IT and business decision-makers, so it's time to bust the five most common misconceptions

By Jeffrey Kaplan

Mar 23, 2009 4 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Update: Free tool from HP scans for Flash vulnerabilities

SWFScan is designed for developers without security backgrounds to find vulnerabilities in Adobe's widely used but occasionally buggy interactive Web technology

By Jeremy Kirk

Mar 23, 2009 3 mins

Development Tools Malware Security

Update: VMware unveils ‘cost per app’ calculator

Latest ROI calculator measures 'virtual machine density' rather than licensing costs

Software Development Technology Industry

Pentaho and Amazon.com deliver BI to the cloud

Open source business intelligence application Pentaho joins the roster of apps available via Amazon's EC2 Web hosting service

By Eric Lai

Business Intelligence Databases Technology Industry

VMware to manage virtual machines from mobile phones

New feature that lets vCenter Mobile Access VMware users manage their infrastructure from mobile phones will be released in April

By Mikael Ricknäs

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Skype dives deeper into business phone market

Skype for SIP lets companies integrate their existing SIP phone switches with Skype's proprietary VoIP service

By Jeremy Kirk, Stephen Lawson

Mar 23, 2009 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Smart Grid is found susceptible to cyberattack

Researchers say malicious code could propagate on next generation Smart Grid devices, which are intended to give customers better control over the electricity they use

By Robert McMillan

Mar 23, 2009 4 mins

Malware Security

Salesforce integrates Service Cloud with Twitter

Salesforce CRM for Twitter is now in beta and will be available this summer

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference

Microsoft, IBM to ponder IDEs at EclipseCon 2009, while Eclipse will show off progress of its E4 platform

Mar 23, 2009 4 mins

IBM said to be poring over Sun’s contracts

Such an examiniation of contracts is often part of a the pre-merger due dilligence process

By James Niccolai

Multicore chips pose next big challenge for industry

Most software today is still written for single-core chips and will need to be rewritten or updated to take advantage of the potential multicore chips offer

By Agam Shah

Mar 20, 2009 5 mins

Economic blues could slow datacenter construction

Construction projects already underway will not be halted, but new construction is likely to suffer until the economy improves

By Robert Lemos

Browsers Software Development Technology Industry

Top 10: IBM talks to Sun, IE8 debuts, iPhone 3.0 sneak peek

This week's roundup of tech news includes the proposed IBM-Sun merger, Apple unveiling the iPhone 3.0 OS, Microsoft rolling out IE8, and more

By Nancy Weil

Mar 20, 2009 4 mins

OpenLogic revamps open source support offerings

OpenLogic introduces new three-tier system, with prices ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 per project per year, depending on level of support

Mar 20, 2009 2 mins

Google: IBM/Sun deal could benefit Java

Google's open source program manager speculated that IBM ownership of Sun could have prevented the current battle between Sun and Apache Software Foundation

By Jon Brodkin

Mar 20, 2009 4 mins

BBC says UK credit card information for sale in India

Nearly all the names, addresses, and post codes sold to BBC team were valid, but most of the numbers attached to them were invalid — often out by a single digit

By John Ribeiro

Microsoft invites developers to test Web site translator

Microsoft Research Machine Translator can translate a Web site into 12 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Polish, and Spanish

By Elizabeth Montalbano

E-health records not enough, experts say

Doctors and hospitals not only need to adopt electronic health records, but those digital records need to be easy to share with patients and health care providers

By Grant Gross

Sun deal could make IBM unbeatable in Unix server market

An acquisition of Sun would give IBM nearly two-thirds of the worldwide Unix server market, which could attract the attention of regulators

By Patrick Thibodeau

Mar 20, 2009 4 mins

Study: Microsoft holds solid in browsers, Chrome slow to grow

Study also found that Microsoft flopped with Windows Vista, which is running on less than 20 percent of desktops

Mar 20, 2009 2 mins

Microsoft proud of its first ‘post-Gates’ OS, Ballmer says

Ballmer hints that he and colleagues were limited in their ability to make certain technical decisions at Microsoft while Gates was there

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Can Cisco sell its ‘unified’ vision to a tough server crowd?

Cisco is stressing UCS's holistic approach, saying its innovations in tying together servers, storage, networking, and virtualization make it unique in the industry

By Jim Duffy

Mar 20, 2009 9 mins

Researchers make wormy Twitter attack

If new Twitter worm were combined with malicious browser attack code, it could be used to take control of victims' machines

By Robert McMillan

iPhone tethering could prove a boon to IT managers

iPhone 3.0's tethering capability could replace the need to issue mobile broadband cards to phone users; AT&T declined to discuss its plans for the tethering feature

By Matt Hamblen