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How much does spam cost you? Google will calculate

Google Message Security calculator determines how many days and dollars your company loses in productivity to spam

By Robert McMillan

Malware Security Technology Industry

Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management

The Moonlight beta will put Microsoft's Silverlight on Linux, and the Advanced Management Pack enables management of Windows and Linux servers from a single console

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Nov 19, 2008 3 mins

Update: SAP slashes NetWeaver developer subscription price

SAP has been trying to move customers still on older systems onto NetWeaver-based platforms

Development Tools Software Development

Nov 19, 2008 3 mins

Ballmer: Yahoo acquisition won’t happen

Microsoft's CEO also hints at an annual shareholders meeting that Windows 7 could come next year

By Nancy Gohring

Nov 19, 2008 3 mins

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Microsoft launches Dynamics NAV 2009 ERP

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 features a 'role tailored' design that fine-tunes the system for a given employee's needs and job responsibilities

ISO publishes Office Open XML specification

OOXML's publication means software developers can begin implementing the specifications into their products for free

By Jeremy Kirk

Windows HPC hits top 10 among supercomputers

A year ago the best Microsoft could do was 116th place on the list of the Top 500 supercomputers

By John Fontana

Nov 19, 2008 4 mins

CA unveils simplified suite, SaaS portfolio

CA broadens its SaaS offerings by hosting more management applications and adopting subscription pricing options

By Denise Dubie

Nov 19, 2008 4 mins

Zend adds Flash links to PHP

Zend Framework 1.7 upgrade also boosts performance

Asustek to launch iMac rival

Asustek's Eee Top all-in-one PC built into a monitor sports a slender 15.9-inch touchscreen, Windows XP, and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom microprocessor

By Dan Nystedt

Sun adds query analysis tool to MySQL Enterprise

MySQL Enterprise service now provides a query analysis tool for tracking and fixing code and performance issues

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Update: Microsoft drops OneCare anti-virus product

The company is dropping retail sales of the Windows Live OneCare and will offer Windows users free anti-virus software, code-named Morro

By Robert McMillan

Malware Security

Adobe accommodates Visual Studio, Eclipse

Latest developments with Flex, ColdFusion, and other technologies aired at conference

Google’s Schmidt: Innovation must come first

Google chairman/CEO says private efforts not enough; government must take lead in such issues as energy independence and broadband adoption

By Grant Gross

Nov 18, 2008 5 mins

Amazon debuts content delivery network service

CloudFront service joins a variety of other Internet cloud-based services that the company offers via its Amazon Web Services unit

By Juan Carlos Perez

IaaS SaaS Technology Industry

CA to discuss ‘Mainframe 2.0’

Initiative includes tools and services aimed at making mainframe computing easier

IaaS Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

SAP adds data migration to ERP arsenal

SAP's Data Migration services leverage information management products acquired from Business Objects

By Ephraim Schwartz

Databases Software Development Technology Industry

Databases

Analysts: New Yahoo CEO must shed assets for better focus

As Jerry Yang prepares to step down, industry watchers call on Yahoo to issue a sound plan, decisive leadership, and a concise portfolio

By Heather Havenstein

Nov 18, 2008 4 mins

Nvidia announces ‘personal supercomputer’

Nvidia computer will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation at a small fraction of the cost of a supercomputer

By Grant Gross

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

John Thompson retiring as Symantec CEO

Symantec's COO Enrique Salem has been named as the new president and CEO

By Ellen Messmer

Ingres updates open source database

Improvements to Ingres Database 9.2 center on improving availability and easing system recovery and providing additional tools for developers

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

U.S. court halts sale of spyware program

CyberSpy must stop selling its RemoteSpy software that secretly records keystrokes

By Jeremy Kirk

Malware Security Technology Industry

EMC enhances storage management for virtual environments

EMC's NetWorker backup and recovery software will now support Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization system

By Stephen Lawson

Data Management Software Development

Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight on ‘Vista Capable’

E-mails unsealed by a federal judge reveal that Microsoft employees lobbied hard against dropping support for WDDM as a requirement for a Vista Capable PC

By Gregg Keizer

Nov 18, 2008 6 mins

Amazon, Capgemini partner on cloud computing

Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure

By Jeremy Kirk

JavaFX RIA technology almost ready

General-release versions of JavaFX Desktop and JavaFX Script are due by the end of the year, and Sun officials say Java business is profitable

China Mobile to vie with Apple, Google apps stores

World's largest mobile phone service provider plans to open its own mobile applications store similar to those run by Apple and Google

By Dan Nystedt

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang to step down as CEO

Blamed for botching the Microsoft acquistion offer, the Yahoo co-founder will go back to being "Chief Yahoo" and remain on company's board

By Martyn Williams, Nancy Gohring

Software Development Technology Industry

Adobe’s hosted CoCoMo service released as public beta

CoCoMo services are hosted on Adobe's servers and allow developers to add collaboration features to apps built with Adobe's Flex tools

By James Niccolai

Nov 17, 2008 5 mins

Hosted Exchange, SharePoint now widely on sale

About half a million users have adopted Exchange Online since a limited release for enterprises, and Microsoft expects to capture half the enterprise market in five years

By Stephen Lawson

Microsoft files suit to defend Visual Studio users

Microsoft is asking that several patents held by WebXchange be declared invalid in order to head off infringement suits that could effect Visual Studio users

By Nancy Gohring

Sun releases StarOffice 9

The latest version of Sun's suite of productivity apps is the first to offer Mac OS X support

By Mikael Ricknäs

Coverity assists software architects

The Coverity Architecture Analyzer makes sure that developers designs are implemented properly and securely

NetWitness releases free version of security software

Company hopes free download of NetWitness Investigator package will drive users to other NetWitness products

By Grant Gross

Security Software Development

Is U.S. innovation on the skids?

The U.S. has been in a decade-long decline in global technological competitiveness after a retreat from long-term basic research and a surge in R&D in countries such as China

By Gary Anthes

Nov 17, 2008 7 mins

Simple steps can help IT do more with less

Cutting costs in IT does not necessarily mean laying staffers off, deferring projects, or reducing support.

By Ken Karacsony

Management is killer app for virtualization, says CA CEO

John Swainson tells CA World 2008 attendees that enterprises are held back by concerns about lack of control over virtual machines

By Mikael Ricknäs

Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Adobe taps ARM, Qualcomm for mobile Flash

The rich Internet technology is extending into the mobile realm, where Flash's installed base surpasses that of the desktop

OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs

While Microsoft Office remains dominant, an independent study finds OpenOffice.org was used by 5 percent of people, versus Google Docs' 1 percent

By Eric Lai

Veritas service helps find hidden risks in datacenters

Veritas Operations Services is an agentless data collector that searches server configurations, storage arrays, and databases for incompatibilities and other problems

By Todd Weiss

Data Management Security Technology Industry

Researchers take a step ahead in quantum computing

Researchers have found a way to preserve data-storing electrons longer, which allows a system to process data more coherently and run programs more effectively

By Agam Shah

Cray’s Jaguar set to wrest lead in Top500 from IBM

Cray's XT Jaguar supercomputer, thanks to a $100 million upgrade, may displace IBM's Roadrunner as the fastest computer in the world

By Sharon Gaudin

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Adobe to offer new tools for UI development

Adobe previews Flash Catalyst, a workflow system for designers and software developers creating user interfaces, and Flex Builder, its toolset for creating RIAs

By James Niccolai

Nov 17, 2008 5 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Adobe bolsters streaming Flash

Dynamic streaming to adjust to the bandwidth rate and DVR capabilities are added in upgrade

iPhone owners, Apple shareholders score win against Apple and AT&T lawyers

<p> Might someone be prying lawyers' claws, one by one, out of the iPhone Developer Program? </p>

By Tom Yager

Nov 16, 2008 2 mins