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 The Register - Software: ApplicationsBiting the hand that feeds ITCopyright: Copyright 2009, Situation Publishing
SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:57:15 GMT Inside Microsoft's R2 previewReview SQL Server 2008 R2 is a step closer to reality.…
Oracle begs EC for more time Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:21 GMT Commission extends deadlineThe European Competition Commission is extending the deadline set for Oracle to provide evidence that its proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems will not damage competition for European consumers.…
Database anonymity at risk, warns researcher Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:35:30 GMT Prof Ohm resists data safety claimsPeople might be more identifiable than previously thought from supposedly anonymised information contained in large databases, according to a technology law expert. New research recommends that privacy practices and even privacy laws need to change.…
Google Wave relies on kindness of strangers Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT Copy our cloud, pleaseDreamforce 09 Google has been stumping for its Wave real-time collaboration system among the Salesforce.com faithful.…
Firefox millions - now only 9 per cent Google free Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT No banking on MicrohooMozilla revenues climbed to $79m last year - and 91 per cent of that came from Google.…
Why Microsoft's IE 9 will frustrate standards fans Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:49 GMT Return to renderPDC Performance and standards look like dominating work on Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer.…
Office 2010 fights Google with SharePoint bloat Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:12:22 GMT Decent upgrade gets out of shapeReview Office is in a curious competitive position. On the desktop, Office is untouchable - even the free OpenOffice.org has done little to shift its hold, especially in business.…
Microsoft squirts out Office 2010 public beta Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:02 GMT Testing times aheadMicrosoft plans to punt five different flavours of its Office 2010 suite when it lands in the first half of next year.…
Making Muvizu: DIY animation is here Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:01 GMT Prepare for an inbox avalanche of animationsEven though it's in the alpha stage, Digimania's Muvizu is one of the most impressive new technologies I've seen in the past few years. But don't take my word for it. You're going to be annoyed by Muvizu output pretty soon.…
Firefox syncing tool Weaves its way into beta status Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:29:33 GMT Anytime, anyplace, anywhere - more or lessMozilla’s experimental app that syncs up the "Firefox experience" across multiple browsers has been promoted to beta status.…
Office 2010 beta lands in laps of MSDN, TechNet coders Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:25:21 GMT Final countdown to public testing beginsMicrosoft has begun pumping the Office 2010 beta out to members of its MSDN and TechNet developer groups, ahead of the code’s imminent arrival later this week.…
Cisco and the war for, um, hosted email Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT Anything GooIBMsoft can do...Cisco Systems tossed itself into an increasingly contentious market last week with the debut of its very own hosted email service. Yes, contentious.…
Google Docs set for 'get rid of' Office moment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:10:04 GMT Only a year away. Says GoogleBy next year, Google says, its web-happy word processor will be so effective, most enterprises will be able to "get rid of [Microsoft] Office."…
Office 2010 beta sneaks onto wild wild web Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:33:06 GMT (Spread)sheeeeeeeeit!A beta version of Microsoft’s Office 2010 software package has unsurprisingly tipped up on some BitTorrent sites ahead of its expected official release next week.…
Corel receives bigger buyout offer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:55:43 GMT The other software company...Corel has told regulators in Canada that it has received an improved offer to buy the firm, and the board has not yet decided what to do.…
EU 'optimistic' Oracle will see reason on MySQL Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT It's the open source, stoopidThe European Union's competition chief has said she's "optimistic" a settlement can be reached with Oracle over its proposed $5.6bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems.…
Google Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:38:26 GMT HTTP gets SPDYUpdated Google is developing a new application layer protocol designed to speed the movement of stuff across the web. It's called SPDY, pronounced, yes, speedy.…
Google's Chrome beta for Mac expected early December Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:02 GMT In the lane, Snow Leopard is glisteningA beta version of Google’s Chrome browser for the Mac is set to land in December.…
Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19:05 GMT And where do you think you're going?Hotmail users are now unable to log out of their account if the browser they are using does not accept third party cookies.…
Mozilla hits FF button with second Firefox 3.6 beta Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:41:25 GMT With a bit of a mind flip, you're there in the time slipMozilla has hastily released a second beta of Firefox 3.6 just over a week after pushing out the first test preview of its popular browser.…
Wolfram Alpha given keys to the Bingdom Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:47:22 GMT Microsoft gets mathematical on Google's assMicrosoft has inked a deal with Wolfram Alpha, making its Bing search engine a high-profile customer of the egghead web product’s API.…
Apple passes Nokia, scares Nintendo Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:56:57 GMT One device, multiple battlesApple has passed Nokia to become the world's most profitable phone maker, and prompted Nintendo's president to note that if his company can't differentiate its games from those on the iPhone, "then our future is dark."…
GNOME 3.0 release hits six-month buffer Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:00:53 GMT Next weighty version held back from start lineThe next major iteration of the GNOME desktop has been delayed by six months.…
MS home server users hit by Windows Live Custom Domains snafu Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:29:18 GMT Down and out since SundayMany Windows Home Server customers have been unable to access Microsoft's Windows Live Custom Domains service since the weekend.…
Suppliers fall over themselves to support Exchange 2010 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:40 GMT New species spreads to four new environmentsMicrosoft has shot Exchange Server 2010 worldwide spurring storage suppliers to instantly announce their support for the application.…
MSN Video morphs into Bing Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:51:35 GMT Yet another makeoverMicrosoft has splashed its Bing brand name over its MSN video site.…
Adobe slips good-bye note to 10% of stafff Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:31:03 GMT Tough times at top employerAdobe Systems, reckoned to be one of the best US employers to work for by business suck-up mag Fortune, is cutting 10 per cent of its staff.…
Firefox flaws make up 44% of all browser bugs? Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:47 GMT But numbers game ignores the big pictureUpdated Firefox flaws accounted for nearly half (44 per cent) of all browser bugs in the first half of 2009 - according to a survey which fails to factor in the seriousness of browser flaws.…
EU officially objects to Sunacle deal Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:31:37 GMT Eye on MySQLThe European Union has officially raised objection to Oracle's proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems.…
Firefox at 5: the Google Cold War Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:16:24 GMT Saving the interwebs from 'cable TV'As Firefox pops the champagne on its fifth birthday, one of its founding fathers has warned the world against an interwebs ruled by a certain money-minded tech giant.…
Firefox keeps Microsoft 'honest' on 5th birthday Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:48:42 GMT Mozilla waxes lyrical about cutesy tot browserMozilla is celebrating Firefox’s fifth birthday today by proclaiming 330 million users worldwide since the browser was launched on 9 November 2004.…
OpenOffice.org pushes gamers' buttons with OOMouse Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:35:05 GMT Retains 'burning hatred' for Microsoft, not AppleOpenOffice.org plans to ship a multi-button office application mouse by February next year.…
Spanish Army builds ant-colony AI conquistador algorithm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:28:05 GMT Iberian insect intelligence to plan 'actual strategy'Spanish computer researchers and army officers say they have developed an algorithm based on the behaviour of ant colonies which can plot "the best path" through battlefields for manoeuvring troops. The general-ware has apparently been tested in a "mini-simulator" developed by modifying the computer game Panzer General.…
Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:52 GMT Google we're notAt one point, Mozilla considered building a plug-in that would turn Microsoft's Internet Explorer into a decent browser. But unlike Google, it quickly abandoned the idea.…
Firefox and Chrome updates spike stability bugs Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:03:32 GMT Bonfire Night alternative browser fixesMozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes a number of stability bugs that pose possible security concerns.…
Opera in top secret iPhone talks? Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:39:12 GMT We did not approach Apple...'at that time'OpenMobileSummit Opera boss Jon von Tetzchner says that one day Apple's iPhone will run third-party browsers. But he won't be drawn on whether the company is poised to offer a Jobsian version of Opera itself.…
Vint Cerf mods Android for interplanetary interwebs Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:17 GMT 'Hot dead birds' protocol comes to earthOpenMobileSummit Internet founding father cum Google evangelist Vint Cerf is working to bring his interplanetary interwebs protocol to mobile networks here on earth.…
Google launches privacy Dashboard service Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:29 GMT What does Google know about me?Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.…
Orb goes Mac - at last Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:06 GMT Photos, music via little fluffy cloudOrb, the Slingbox-in-software app that allows you to access your music, TV and photos on any device, has finally unleashed its long-awaited Mac version.…
Mozilla plots Firefox interface overhaul Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:12:12 GMT 'Dated' UI gets cross-platform makeoverMozilla has detailed plans to revamp and simplify the user interface of Firefox.…
Linden Lab unveils Sadville: Enterprise Edition Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:14:34 GMT A private Second Life in a $55,000 boxSome companies like IBM have an uncanny attraction to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. They claim the software provides a 3-D collaboration space that's viscerally superior to what traditional mediums such as teleconferencing, instant messaging, or video conferencing can provide.…
Google embraces Wave's permission chaos Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:28:54 GMT It's for your own goodEnterprise 2.0 Google is embracing complete user-access anarchy in its new-age collaboration tool, Google Wave, so that early testers won't be tempted to fall into their old emailing habits.…
Brussels readies full investigation of Oracle Sun Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:22:03 GMT Larry's stubbornness backfiring?Oracle has resigned itself to the likelihood of a full European competition investigation into its takeover of Sun Microsystems.…
Microsoft adds higher price to SQL Server's new features Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:17:33 GMT The rising cost of dataMicrosoft is bumping up the price of its SQL Server database for the first time in four years.…
IBM hurls defiance at Microsoft after communications pitch flop Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:26:43 GMT 'Trust me, this stuff works'Enterprise 2.0 IBM suffered through an extremely glitchy demo of its unified communications software at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today, but it still preserved enough bravado to challenge Microsoft to a throw-down.…
Microsoft's SQL Server gets appliance of iron Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:02 GMT Test code challenges OracleNear-final code for Microsoft's next SQL Server database is due today, wrapping in hardware from partners to help counter Oracle's proprietary Exadata appliance.…
Big business bullies EU into open source U-turn Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:58:14 GMT Definition replaced with dubious vaguenessThe European Union has long promoted open source software, but it seems that years of expensive lobbying by big software companies has finally worn down the bureaucrats' resistance.…
Yahoo! open sources uber web server Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:12:45 GMT '400-terabytes-a-day' Traffic Server lands at ApacheYahoo! has open sourced the back-end software platform that underpins the company's webmail client and countless other applications offered up across its sweeping web portal.…
Skype for Linux set for open source Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:23:35 GMT 'In the nearest future'Skype for Linux will be open sourced at some point in "the nearest future."…
Novell tongue-lashes LA for Google cloud switch Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:15 GMT What savings? What security?Los Angeles has broken a lot of hearts in its history. You're on top of the world one day, then tossed into the heap the next when the new big thing arrives.… |
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