The silicon industry's plans to use multiple processor cores on the same chip to improve computer processing performance may have hit a bump on supercomputing highway.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/09/2008
The Khronos Group, an industry consortium specializing in dynamic media, has ratified and released the OpenCL 1.0 specification.
Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect computers and networks from cyberattacks, said Ron Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist.
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2008
Microsoft released the public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 along with modules aimed at simplifying RFID deployments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/08/2008
As IT managers develop strategies and deploy technologies to reduce power consumption in their facilities, they recognize virtualization does not only reduce server sprawl, it can also save energy.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/08/2008
The last "Patch Tuesday" of 2008 will be a busy one, with Microsoft planning to release eight fixes next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2008
Sun Microsystems today began shipping version 1.0 of its JavaFX platform, the runtime and tools combo for content authors and Web developers building rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/04/2008
Microsoft executive Bill Veghte answered a few questions about Microsoft's business strategies for the Windows product line at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
This year, the IT industry reached an inflection point, where more new malicious programs were created than useful ones.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/03/2008
A Service Pack 2 beta Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for subscribers to MSDN and Microsoft TechNet.
Redmond offers major discounts for Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/01/2008
ByteShield’s Software Usage Management solution protects game and PC-application developers from would-be hackers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
BizSpark program offers start-up software makers access to Microsoft's tools, products, licenses and tech support.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Developers face a long trek to Microsoft's ambitious "Oslo" modeling vision.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft works to promote the Text Template Transformation Toolkit, a code generator built into Visual Studio 2008.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft's Managed Services Engine, designed to facilitate enterprise SOA through service virtualization, gains SOA governance support.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2008
Just days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration that Redmond was "done with all of these [acquisition] discussions with Yahoo," one newspaper is reporting that a deal is in the works.
Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2008