IBM launches new mashup tools WebSphere sMash and Mashup Center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Microsoft task force seeks to improve MSDN by soliciting developer feedback and boosting search features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Altova releases upgraded XML tools suite with OOXML support.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2008
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Research firm Gartner is predicting that the current economic downturn in the U.S. will mean more IT and development positions will go overseas.
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2008
According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
IT execs are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report by research analysts at IDC.
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2008
Windows XP, which will no longer be sold after June 30, will not get a reprieve despite Ballmer's quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback.
Microsoft had flat revenue results as reflected in its third-quarter 2008 report.
New attack vectors and methods for hacker intrusion, it seems, are popping up every few months.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/23/2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solution provider IONA recently announced that its Artix product line will offer interoperability for Microsoft technologies in SOA projects.
Howard A. Schmidt has used technology to thwart crime since his early career
as a policeman and pioneer in computer forensics.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/22/2008
Open source software company Appcelerator recently updated its rich Internet application development platform so that it's compatible with Google's new App Engine platform.