Move over, Amazon. The leading provider of cloud services is about to get some serious competition from Sun Microsystems, which …
Microsoft to highlight Silverlight 3 technology
Microsoft will tout at the Mix09 conference in Las Vegas this week its planned Silverlight 3 rich Internet application technology …
IBM hashing out WebSphere plans
IBM plans more componentizing of its WebSphere Java application server as well as additional dynamic language support, a company executive …
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, touts speed gains
Mozilla Corp. yesterday released Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, a long-delayed update that sports improvements to the new JavaScript engine and …
Microsoft: IE8 faster than Firefox, Chrome
In a report released Wednesday, Microsoft spelled out how it tests browsers in-house, and again stressed that it doesn't buy …
Mozilla bumps up Firefox 3.1 to 3.5
Mozilla Corp. announced that it will dump Version 3.1 as the name of the next edition of Firefox and instead …
Unpatched PDF bug poses growing threat, say researchers
An unpatched bug in popular PDF viewing and editing applications is much more dangerous than first thought, according to security …
Sun’s stellar NAS in a can
Not so long ago, we tested the Sun Fire X4500 Storage Server, aka Thumper, which was a dual-CPU, dual-core Opteron-based …
Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex
Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and …
Mozilla patches eight Firefox bugs, six critical
Mozilla Corp. patched eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox, half of them critical memory corruption flaws in the browser's layout and …
Vendors see future in iPhone business applications
The iPhone may generally be considered a consumer device, but several vendors at the Cebit trade show this week are …
Network skills in demand, pay well in down economy
CIOs continue to seek network, desktop and Windows skills and some might pay top dollar for specific high-tech talents, despite …
Mozilla slates overdue Firefox 3.1 beta for March 10
After several delays, Mozilla is set a release schedule for Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, the next milestone on the road …
Microsoft converging programming languages
Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official …
Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again, slates another beta
Mozilla announced it will add another beta to the Firefox 3.1 development schedule, a move that will push the browser's …
Netbooks: All About the New Ultraportables
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless …
Apple announces Safari 4
Apple has announced the public beta of Safari 4, the web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine …
Apple delivers Safari 4 public beta
Apple Inc launched the public beta of Safari 4 and touted the new browser as the fastest on the planet. …
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay. Linux provides free and open access to …
Microsoft researchers devise new browser with stronger security
Microsoft Corp. researchers are developing a new Web browser that they say could offer a far greater degree of security …