Software Development

Microsoft to update IE after bugs

Update could come out as early as April

Metered Web services

The ability to track usage will enable the future business model for network services

Microsoft: Gadgets offer developer opportunity

Joe Belfiore, vice president of Microsoft's eHome division, said developers can build Gadgets for hardware OEMs to pre-install on computers running Vista once it ships this year

Eclipse: Sun still welcome to join

Sun rebuffs invitation; IBM, Compuware unveil wares

Red Hat releases Fedora Core 5

FC 5 includes a preview of the open-source Xen virtualization technology it plans to integrate into the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

OpenVZ to release kernel for Suse Linux Enterprise 10

Software enables users to create isolated, virtual private servers on a single machine

Extensity hopes to be $1B firm within three years

Financial applications company plans to expand through acquisitions, increased R&D

In Brief: Infravio partners with Layer 7 on SOA governance interoperability

In Brief: Sun announces C/C++ support for NetBeans IDE

First alpha release of Firefox 2.0 is imminent

Mozilla's open-source browser has feature that makes it easier to return to recently visited Web pages