Research institutions that are part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence have launched a "Tools as a Service" (TaaS) cloud computing pilot program with IBM in an effort to provide researchers, students and faculty with access to business software and software development tools.
Borland Software today released a new module to its ALM portfolio focused on improving the quality of apps delivered by development teams.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2009
Adobe Systems used this week's Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona to advance its effort to provide a common runtime across desktop, Web and mobile environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/20/2009
Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the DNS last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions.
- By William Jackson
- 02/20/2009
A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.
KDE (K Desktop Environment), based on the Qt Framework, is a desktop solution for UNIX environments.
Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
Embarcadero Technologies has taken the integration of its CodeGear assets to the next level with what it is coining "on-demand multiplatform software development."
- By John K. Waters
- 02/19/2009
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2009
Microsoft plans to give the Windows Mobile a facelift which includes the launch of a Web-based sync service and a developer site.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/17/2009
Microsoft will release the second CTP of its Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint in the coming weeks, a company official said on Friday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/13/2009
Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2009
Novell has released its widely anticipated Moonlight 1.0, a plug-in based on Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0 rich interactive application (RIA) runtime.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2009
The battle for mindshare of rich interactive application developers took a step forward today as Sun Microsystems released a follow-up to its recently released JavaFX platform with its anticipated mobile edition.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2009
Atalasoft Inc. is launching a SharePoint plug-in based on the document imaging tooling in its latest SDK.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/12/2009
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
Worldwide shipments of PC microprocessors plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to a report announced on Wednesday by the International Data Group (IDC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/11/2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2009
On Monday open-source middleware maker WSO2 unveiled a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework built on the OSGi specification.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2009
Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products on Tuesday at its FASTforward'09 event in Las Vegas.