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Article | 4/11/2010 Oracle revs up cloud API

Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives in the race to standardize cloud computing, Oracle has released a set of APIs for runni...

Article | 2/11/2010 Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use

Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monda...

Article | 29/10/2010 Microsoft quarterly results boosted by Windows, Xbox, Office

Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to US$5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 201...

Article | 29/10/2010 Wi-Fi won't kill the office LAN ... yet

While Wi-Fi has increasingly become the primary choice for office worker connectivity, it may be some time before it replaces wired networks altogethe...

Article | 29/10/2010 VMware's private cloud computing vision

VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on an...

Article | 28/10/2010 Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design

A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume...

Article | 27/10/2010 Microsoft Server 2008 gets virtualisation boost

Microsoft is updating the server version of its Windows operating system to give the OS more virtualisation capabilities.

Article | 26/10/2010 IBM updates Maximo for iPhone, Android access

With the aim of replacing the venerable clipboard with a much more versatile handheld device, IBM has updated its Maximo asset management software so ...

Article | 26/10/2010 Canonical Ubuntu splits from GNOME over design issues

Canonical is changing the default interface on the next release of Ubuntu from GNOME to Unity, a new open source project that focuses on simplified in...

Article | 23/10/2010 HTML5 makes maths easy

The W3C has updated its MathML standard for rendering mathematical notation on Web pages to better portray basic math symbols, as well as render mathe...

Article | 23/10/2010 Amazon to allow book lending on the Kindle

One of the oldest customs of book lovers and libraries -- lending out favorite titles to friends and patrons -- is finally getting recognized in the e...

Article | 22/10/2010 VMware angles Spring as premier Java development tool

Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers.

Article | 21/10/2010 Microsoft signs cloud deals with California, New York City

Continuing the progress that Microsoft is making in the state and local government sector, the company has signed cloud computing deals with the city ...

Article | 21/10/2010 Apache revs Maven for greater speed and extensibility

The Apache Foundation has completed a major upgrade of its Maven software build system, making it speedier and more extensible.

Article | 21/10/2010 Red Hat CEO: Software vendor model is broken

The current model of selling commercial enterprise software is broken, charged the CEO for Red Hat. It is too expensive, doesn't address user needs an...