Boston, Mass.-based Atalasoft announced recently that it has updated its .NET imaging toolkit for photos and documents, DotImage, to version 6.0.
According to numerous reports on the Web, Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP SP3 may both be released this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.
IT pros looking at solutions to the Microsoft Excel bug that popped up as part of last week's patch release said Monday that the cell calculation snafu plaguing Excel 2003 isn't so much a security issue as it is a pain in the neck for programmers and Windows application developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/17/2008
Adobe releases first version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and open
sources the complementary Flex framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
Sybase releases new version of Afaria, an encryption component for
Windows Mobile devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
First Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0 betas are released at MIX08.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
OpenID gets big-name support from Microsoft, Google, IBM and others.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
CodeGear partners with Russia to provide programming education.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
Online application space heats up as Microsoft, Google release new components of their cloud-based productivity suites .
Microsoft opens APIs, protocol documentation in an effort to reach out
to the developer community.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
After MySQL acquisition, Sun plans to pursue other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Microsoft's 'Heroes Happen Here' launch events encourage IT pros to
test the company's new 2008 offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Appistry, a pioneering provider of grid-inspired application servers known as "fabrics," is reaching out to developers with a free version of its flagship product, a new open licensing model and a newly launched developer portal.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/14/2008
A Windows Home Server bug that's corrupting some users' data won't be fixed until June, Microsoft announced this week.
IBM today described a new "secure mashup" technology for the enterprise that is designed to make it easier for nontechnical users to create Web applications from multiple sources.
The Software Freedom Law Center, which provides legal representation "to protect and advance free and open source software," has issued an analysis of Microsoft's "Open Specification Promise" and its compatibility with the GNU General Public License.
Microsoft this morning revealed to developers the expected next steps in the software development kit (SDK) for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/13/2008
The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control (MAC) architecture -- now the basis of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) -- into the Network File System (NFS) protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/12/2008
Novell, a sponsor of the open source Mono project, issued an announcement today that a new development tool, called MonoDevelop 1.0, will be available for download at the end of this week.
The Naval Research Laboratory researchers are helping develop a set of routing protocols for setting up mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/12/2008