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 The Chinese government has come down like a ton of bricks on that American icon Google, basically branding it a smut merchant, ordering it to block links to foreign sites and apparently disabling – at least sporadically – Google Search, Google Apps, and Gmail if not all Google services...Jun. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 631 |
 SpringSource has made its Hyperic HQ web application and infrastructure management software available through RightScale’s Cloud Management Platform. It can be used directly from RightScale’s automated platform to monitor the availability and manage the performance of cloud application...Jun. 26, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 485 |
 Search Laboratory, a British outfit, is managing the multi-lingual pay-per-click side of a pre-packaged service designed to help UK SMEs boost their international trade. With partners Google, Royal Mail, HSBC and the Institute of Export, it’s providing a service called Export Box meant...Jun. 22, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 554 |
 Jitterbit, the open source house that has taken on large-scale enterprise-grade data and application integration – problems like connecting on-premise and cloud applications and data – is pushing on to Jitterbit 3.0, a major release of its solution. The new version, when it gets here –...Jun. 19, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public fe...Jun. 19, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,752 |
 According to CNET, the new economical Microsoft is scaling back its YouTube-competitive Soapbox web video service, meaning to limit content to categories covered by its online properties like finance and entertainment. It could just as easily give the venture up as a complete loss and ...Jun. 19, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
 One year ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chose the XBRL standard to simplify and unify the exchange of financial information, and as such have joined the European central banks that have been using it since 2007 for regulatory reporting. In France, Infogreffe (wh...Jun. 19, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 375 |
 Bing hasn’t exactly broken Google’s stranglehold on search but Microsoft’s scores are inching up thanks to it. According to comScore, Microsoft captured all of 9.1% of U.S. Internet searches the week before Bing was released, 9.1% Bing’s first week out and 12.1% last week and its share...Jun. 18, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 551 |
 It seems an age ago but remember back to last week when Google started a guerilla attack on Microsoft with a plug-in called Apps Sync for Outlook, which was supposed to let Google replace Exchange at the back end without it being the least bit obvious to Outlook users. Well, Microsoft’...Jun. 18, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 846 |
 Opera Software, the nettlesome little Norwegian browser company responsible for Microsoft's current antitrust miseries with the European Commission, says it's "reinvented the web." Actually it's more a stab at reinventing the browser to make it more of the platform Netscape threatened ...Jun. 17, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
 Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscri...Jun. 16, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,214 Replies: 1 |
 The initial response to Bing, Microsoft’s new 10-day-old search engine, is favorable. According to comScore, Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches was up two points from 9.1% to 11.1% after a week and Microsoft’s penetration of daily searchers went from 13.8% to 15.5%. Now the trick is to...Jun. 12, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 632 |
 Awareness of the ISO standard for long-term archiving, PDF/A, has spread throughout Europe to the point that it is considered in nearly all projects. This was revealed in a survey performed by the PDF/A Competence Center at the end of 2008. A comparison with the results of the 2007 sur...Jun. 12, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 473 |
 Rather than try to get the throngs of immovable Outlook and Office users to switch to Gmail and Google Apps, it’s going after Exchange with a new Apps Sync for Outlook plug-in that lets Outlook messages, contacts and calendar appointments sync with the $50-a-seat Premier Edition of Goo...Jun. 11, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 507 |
 SYS-CON announces the Call for Papers for the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), to be held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Submissions are welcomed from exceptional speakers who are also Infrastructure, architecture, and software engineering experts who have fi...Jun. 8, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,103 |
 Acer could be the first of the big PC vendors to peddle an Android netbook. It means to start selling such a device in Q3. It has not said what the widget will cost or what portion of its output will be dedicated to the Google OS. The company is also supposed to be putting Moblin, the ...Jun. 8, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 764 |
 Google has hauled out a next-generation yellow enterprise Search Appliance based as usual on a customized firewall-protected Dell PowerEdge rack server. The Linux-based widget is supposed to have a new architecture and new software as well as new hardware but is still years behind bein...Jun. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 763 Replies: 1 |
 Google, Yahoo, Apple and other big high-tech firms are under investigation by the Justice Department for “negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another’s employees,” according to the Washington Post. That’s collusion and a nasty antitrust problem for them if true. The paper, whi...Jun. 3, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 711 |
 Adobe is gonna try nibbling on the great PowerPoint franchise. It’s publicly beta testing a collaborative web-based presentation application built on Flash called Acrobat.com Presentations. Jun. 1, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
 Google has a new open communications and collaboration platform up its sleeve that the public won’t see for a few months called Google Wave. It combines features of e-mail, instant messaging and document sharing. Conversations, so to speak, wouldn’t be conversations any more; they’ll b...May. 30, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 850 |
 Google Translate now works in Gmail. In 41 languages; 98% of web users reportedly speak one of them. Google Translate is better than Babelfish, but machine translation still has a ways to go, as Google admits. “Message Translation” is under “settings” in the “Lab” section in standalone...May. 20, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 638 |
 Despite last week’s report that Microsoft wouldn’t even show up, it’s now said that it’s going to its antitrust hearing in Brussels next month. It’s reportedly going to paint Google, which is one of the complaints, as the boogeyman to spook a European Commission already worried about G...May. 15, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,205 |
 If you’re tiring of the vanilla look and feel of Google and Zoho applications, take a look at the new eazybusiness offering. The applications include email, document management, time and attendance, web meeting, invoicing, inventory management and sales force management. eazybusiness a...May. 15, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,636 |
 San Antonio’s arts community is turning to the Internet to encourage investment in the arts. theFund, San Antonio’s United Arts Fund, which is devoted to generating new sources of operating support for San Antonio’s arts and cultural organizations, has launched a new upgraded Web site,...May. 14, 2009 04:02 PM EDT Reads: 244 |
 Pivot3 and Mirasys announced that they have joined forces to bring the benefits of their combined open-platform video solutions to the European market. The two companies will collaborate to simplify configuration, integration and support of large-scale surveillance systems, bringing th...May. 13, 2009 11:59 AM EDT Reads: 475 |
 Its plants spun off, AMD now wants to fuse the units developing its microprocessors and its graphics chips together and has handed the job to the graphics guy Rick Bergman – acquired with its $5.4 billion ATI acquisition – presumably because it’s supposed to fuse graphics onto its proc...May. 8, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 745 |
 The day before Novell and SCO were to appear before a three-judge appeals panel in Denver where SCO is seeking to get the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell overturned, the trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court in Delaware where SCO sought safe haven, one Ro...May. 7, 2009 10:02 PM EDT Reads: 709 Replies: 1 |
 Sniffing the presence of that exotic – but not exactly uncommon – fauna known in antitrust law as an interlocking directorate, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a “confidential” inquiry into the composition of the boards of Apple and Google, according to the New York Times. The c...May. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,013 |
 The widgetry is called Google Apps Directory Sync and lets Google Apps tap into existing repositories of user account information in hopes of eventually moving them to Google Apps permanently of course.May. 5, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,359 |
 Crescendo Networks has announced the Maestro CN-7000 series, a new line of advanced application delivery hardware platforms. The CN-7000 series includes the entry-level CN-7710, the CN-7740 for medium to large organizations, and the CN-7790 for the largest organizations, with up to 10 ...May. 4, 2009 08:43 AM EDT Reads: 467 |
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 Google and 46 of its Android followers plus their consortium have been sued for stealing the Android name. The suit, which claims "it is clear that Google stole first and asked questions later" - was brought last Tuesday by a little-known software developer who has nothing to do with o...May. 3, 2009 10:34 PM EDT Reads: 762 |
 Google has gotten a patent on a seaborne floating data center to be housed on a cargo ship three to seven miles offshore that would be cooled by ocean waters and powered by a Pelamis wave-based electrical generator (little fishies and SpongeBob SquarePants beware).May. 2, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
 I attended a pandemic exercise at Northeastern University last year that was really enlightening and timely considering the latest information about the “swine flu”. Although far from a pandemic at this time, the CDC is taking preventative measures by communicating to the general publi...Apr. 27, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 876 Replies: 1 |
 Virident Systems, a newcomer run by a co-founder of SGI, has started down that sometimes thankless, unforgiving path of a disruptive new server company. For its value proposition it’s using Flash instead of traditional memory, targeting the Internet data centers like Google that now ac...Apr. 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,230 |
 OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.
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 Yahoo, as expected, is going to fire another roughly 700 people, 5% of its workforce, in the next couple of weeks. CEO Carol Bartz, there now about a hundred days, said the cuts wouldn't be like the across-the-board ~10% cuts Yahoo did in Q4 in response to the macro environment. These ...Apr. 22, 2009 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 569 |
 'Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?' is the blog title of Gartner's Anthony Bradley. In his blog entry, Bradley writes: "Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% ...Apr. 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,723 Replies: 1 |
 Yahoo is going to be laying off a few hundred people perhaps on April 21 when the company posts its Q1 results, according to several press reports. The All Things Digital blog suggests whole units could go. They will be the first major labor cuts since CEO Carol Bartz got there in Janu...Apr. 17, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,173 |
 Cisco says it’s going to put an R&D center in South Korea and invest upwards of $2 billion in the country over the next five years including $500 million in loans and investments in local IT and communications concerns. It’s planning to raise a $40 million investment fund. Separately, ...Apr. 17, 2009 01:17 PM EDT Reads: 500 |
