Microsoft has taken another step toward releasing its Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform, …
Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overload
As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual …
Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management
Oracle fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. …
Report: Google to make Gmail more social
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an …
Almasa IT Distribution signs Ericom Software
This agreement authorises Almasa IT Distribution to distribute, market, service and maintain designated Ericom Software in the Middle East and …
Microsoft, NSF form cloud computing collaboration
Researchers selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation will have free access to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform under …
ABBYY to showcase at Mobile World Congress 2010
The ABBYY Stand is dedicated to document recognition and language translation technologies, as well as possible ways of putting them …
Microsoft urges for new EU laws for cloud computing
The European Union should update its laws to better suit cloud computing, Microsoft’s top lawyer urged in Brussels. Laws covering …
Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it
For all the hype around cloud computing, few business customers are actually storing data on Web-based platforms, according to a …
Virtualisation projects fail to reach ROI targets
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan
IBM/Lotus is juicing its collaboration tools with a dose of analytics and cloud-based integration with the belief it can redefine …
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.6, calls it ‘world’s best browser’
Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the first upgrade to the open-source browser since last June. Firefox 3.6 was posted to Mozilla’s …
Firefox, Opera downloads soar after IE warnings
Mozilla reported a "huge increase" in downloads of Firefox in Germany after that country’s computer security agency urged users of …
Microsoft warns of IE zero-day used in Google Attack
A critical zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer was exploited as part of the attack on Google and other companies, according …