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Article | 7/05/2010 VMware's SpringSource to buy in-memory vendor GemStone

VMware's SpringSource is acquiring database-caching software company GemStone Systems, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disc...

Article | 6/05/2010 Will 'hella' follow mega, giga and tera?

One day in the distant future, when our descendents complain about their sluggish "yottabit" Internet connections, they may -- thanks to the efforts o...

Article | 5/05/2010 Video search still a tough nut to crack

While text-based search services such as Google's and Microsoft Bing now come pretty close to consistently serving up what users seek, video search se...

Article | 4/05/2010 Novell, Red Hat prevail in user-interface patent case

A U.S. federal jury has found that Novell and Red Hat were not guilty of infringing on user interface patents held by IP Innovation.

Article | 1/05/2010 Google official reaffirms HTML5 readiness

Despite concerns that it is far from being finished, HTML5 is ready for use, at least for most platforms and for most duties, asserted a Google develo...

Article | 1/05/2010 Twitter: More a news medium than social network

While Twitter tends to get lumped in with other social-networking sites, a group of Korean researchers has analyzed how people use the service and fou...

Article | 30/04/2010 W3C pushes linking Web data

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sees the Web becoming a platform where data can be posted and reused in multiple ad-hoc applications, to judge fro...

Article | 27/04/2010 HP updates Network Mode Manager

Hewlett-Packard has updated its Network Node Manager software, released Monday, to include performance management and virtualization support.

Article | 23/04/2010 Microsoft earnings again buoyed by Windows 7

Windows 7 has once again kept Microsoft's balance sheet healthy. On Thursday, the company announced strong income and revenue growth for its third fis...

Article | 21/04/2010 Red Hat drops Xen from RHEL

With Wednesday's beta release of its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat has added a number of new capabilities that s...

Article | 22/04/2010 Microsoft unleashes long-awaited SQL 2008 update

Microsoft has released to manufacturing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, the new version of its relational database management system software, the compa...

Article | 20/04/2010 Microsoft betas PC management service

Microsoft is beta testing a PC management service aimed at supporting midsized businesses, the company announced Monday.

Article | 20/04/2010 Canonical to update production-ready server Ubuntu

Linux distribution vendor Canonical will soon release an updated version of its production-ready server operating system, the company announced Monday...

Article | 16/04/2010 OpenSolaris leaders unnerved by Oracle silence

Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lac...

Article | 15/04/2010 HP expands client consulting services

Hewlett-Packard has expanded its consulting services to help enterprises get a better handle on the range of new client devices and software that have...