There’s no question that the open source community is a passionate one — and one with significant influence on technology directions and options. We’re way past the days when people asked if Linux or Apache was safe to depend on in business. Open source is now a mainstream part of the technology fabric. Yet it… Read more »
Mozilla yesterday said that its planned overhaul of Firefox’s interface will be pushed back to Firefox 4.0, the major release now slated to ship before the end of 2010. Previously, Mozilla said it would revamp the look and feel of its open-source browser in a two-step process, with part of the redesign debuting in Firefox… Read more »
Opera Software this week is offering a pre-alpha release of its Opera 10.5 browser and upgraded beta releases of its Opera Mobile 10 browser. The company released Opera 10.5 pre-alpha for Labs, for Windows and Mac systems. A Unix and Linux version is due later. The release features the Carakan JavaScript engine. "It’s fast, more… Read more »
For Microsoft, 2010 is a platform building and marketing year with no less than the future success of its cloud strategy hanging in the balance, according to observers. Experts say Microsoft’s charge is not only to begin developing and delivering technology that will define its external, internal and hybrid cloud environments, but to clearly articulate… Read more »
The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5. MySQL database administrators are encouraged to test MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony," though not run it on their production systems yet. "The new features in this release are of beta quality. As with any… Read more »
Mozilla issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 rather than move on to a release candidate, a decision that will push the final code ship date into early 2010, a company executive said. Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 was released as an update to current testers early Thursday, and can also be installed by others who… Read more »
If there was anything even vaguely comforting about the data breaches that were announced this year, it was that many of them stemmed from familiar and downright mundane security failures. Companies continued to be felled more by usual issues such as lost laptops, un-patched or poorly coded software, inadvertent disclosures and rogue insiders, rather than… Read more »
Microsoft Windows 7 may represent the last ever, large in-mass upgrade of the Windows client environment and define the line where the desktop PC was no longer the center of the end-user universe, according to IDC. "We have come to the conclusion that Windows 7 represents a really important demarcation line in the evolution of… Read more »
Kroma Makeup went from using plain old telephone service lines supplemented by cable Internet access to running all its voice, data and Internet traffic over an integrated T-1, saving money and using unified communications to improve sales. The Maitland, Fla.-based company has expanded its consulting business by using video conferencing to advise clients on what… Read more »
Microsoft’s promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrust investigation of the company’s position in the browser market. The company will offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a choice screen through which they can pick the browsers… Read more »
Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database vendors and the upstarts touting the so-called ‘NoSQL’ technology? A slew of relational database vendors, ranging from startups touting massively-parallel data warehousing appliances to grizzled veterans of the online transaction processing (OLTP) wars, are moving to support the MapReduce data processing technology invented by… Read more »
R&M upgrades fibre optic cables for data centres
R&M on Sunday announced that it had upgraded its entire range of fibre optic cables for data centres to bend-insensitive multimode fibre (BIMMF) standards.
AMD previews ‘world’s first’ 5 GHz CPU processor
At the E3 conference this week, AMD unveiled what it says is the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the FX-9590.
Imation unveils Nexsan Assureon next-gen object store
Imation this week unveiled its next-generation object store, the Nexsan Assureon secure automated archive solution, which, the vendor said, cost-effectively consolidates storage tiers, secures data and simplifies storage management.
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