Microsoft continuously improves the Windows Vista Operating System by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to help them to deliver improved compatibility, reliability and performance. These updates are provided to customers directly by our hardware and software partners, as well as from Microsoft in the form of hotfixes distributed on a […]
Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google’s revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would […]
Facebook’s decision to release under open source a large-scale data management project similar to - and inspired by - Google’s BigTable has received backing from an unusual quarter: Microsoft.
Data center futures architect and distinguished database developer James Hamilton, has complemented the pimply faced social network for releasing what he said “looks like a well-engineered system.”
Hamilton […]
Where do winning ideas come from? For most companies, the answer is from a select group of people in Research and Development, new product development (NPD), or marketing.
Today, however, a growing number of organisations are harnessing the power of the web to capitalise on the wealth of ideas among their customers and that often neglected […]
Anyone with a 2G iPhone or an iPod Touch would be well advised to steer clear of the version 2 software, at least until the rush dies down and gives iTunes time to catch its breath.
Punters with last year’s models are rushing to upgrade to version 2, so they can download the applications Apple deems […]
Providing further evidence that venture capital is continuing to flow to open source and web-focused companies, Cupertino-based Zend has just received up to 7 million dollars from TriplePoint Capital. Zend is a leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business PHP applications. The move comes right on the heels of another […]
There’s been a late surge of interest in voting for a wishlist of features users want added to web browsers, after being ignored for months.
With less than a day left before the OpenAjax Alliance closes its poll for most-wanted browser features 116 people have now voted, according to the project’s summary. That’s up from a […]
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 appears ready to go after months of delay, as the company is taking steps to begin selling the database.
The company said today that it’s putting SQL Server 2008 on its August price list, for customers and partners to begin purchases. Release to manufacturing has been promised sometime during the third quarter, […]
Google, known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier.On Tuesday the company introduced Lively, an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any blog […]
Yahoo Inc. today became the latest company to provide developers with the opportunity to build rich Internet applications with some desktop functions with its unveiling of a preview version of a new offering called BrowserPlus.The software, which in this so-called sneak peek release works only on Yahoo sites, is intended […]
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