"Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Comp...

Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s open source defector, whose imminent departure from the company became widely known when Microsoft set up its own CodePlex open source foundation a few weeks ago, has turned up at five-year-old cloud start-up Sonoa Systems, where he will head product strategy and...

SYS-CON Events announces that Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will be delivering the opening keynote at the 1st Annual Government Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) on October 6th in Washington DC. Ms Singer was appoint...

Brad Windecker launched today "Open Source for Small Business" topic on Ulitzer. A topic for open source software specific to the small business marketplace. Small and midsize companies can today take advantage of the maturity in open source applications. This topic will collect storie...

With the worst of the economic downturn abating, Google, which stopped buying up small companies a few months ago ostensibly because prices were too high, is back scouting deals again. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters TV that he expects to close a small acquisition a month. He desc...

Google News went down middle of the day Tuesday for a couple of hours. Google never explained why but said many were affected. Three weeks ago, Gmail went down big time because of a poorly executed server upgrade and now on Thursday users were complaining on Twitter that they couldn’t ...

Intel is pushing Atom out of netbooks and into embedded applications like Daimler and BMW infotainment systems, cell phones and other devices in search of what it calls a $15 billion opportunity. It wants its OEMs and other friends to take a page out of Apple's book and create app stor...

Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...

Google’s Chrome browser claims a bit under 3% of the market right now, but Chrome engineering director Linus Upson told Reuters that it expects to be at 5% at least in a year and if it’s not at 10% at least in two years, it’ll be “exceptionally disappointed.” It just released Chrome v3...

What every developer wants is access and the ability to shape any data across the Internet through one simple language, with out need to learn different APIs. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides just that and its effectiveness will be demonstrated live at SYS-CON's 4th International C...

For the last two years Google, which hasn’t exactly been in a position to lecture anybody about the evils of lock-in, has been harboring a small team of counterculture engineers in Chicago that style themselves the Data Liberation Front quietly working to cut the shackles that condemn ...

The new file manager features pop-up menus and an easier and faster navigation structure to make the user experience more intuitive. In addition, Nomadesk's appraised TheftGuard service, which allows users to remotely shred important docs on the Nomadesk drive in the event of theft or ...

Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash. It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...

Hundreds of on-campus laundry facilities nationwide were waiting. Internet-enabled laundry control and monitoring services to thousands of college students might have to wait yet another semester. Orchid was called in to design, build, and test a new controller—in record time! Laundrom...

Challenger Mobile, the white label mobile VoIP technology company, has announced the launch during the fall of its ground-breaking platform for Google's Android mobile operating system. Challenger Mobile will allow mobile operators, wireless ISPs and related service providers to now de...

Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre...

Asustek, the inventor of netbooks, has shelved its expected Qualcomm Snapdragon-run Android-based model Eee that was showed off at Computec in June. CEO Jerry Shen told an investors conference in Taiwan the other day that “I still don’t see a clear market for smartbooks.” Asustek is al...

Technopolis Online Reports: Finnish high-tech growth companies raised almost €51 million in the first half of 2009—a 17% decrease from the first half of 2008. In addition, Q2 2009 decreased more than 50% compared to the prior year. The following are the findings of the Quarterly Survey...

Cloud Telecomputers, a software innovator in business communication applications and IP telephony, today introduced Glass, its unique Android-based platform for desktop business smartphones. This SIP compatible platform delivers a highly attractive and intuitive user interface on an ei...

Nimbuzz has announced the launch of its multi community mobile social messenger application for Android handsets. Unique for Android users, Nimbuzz introduces a revolutionary buddy list layout, Skype IM, a time-sensitive user interface, home-screen notifications, auto-reconnect, clicka...

The two-sentence press announcement was terse in the extreme. Monday morning it said, “To meet the increasing consumer demand for high definition content, Toshiba America Consumer Product, LLC, will be entering the Blu-ray market. We will share additional product information and detail...

In a rare advertising foray, Internet ad darling Google has harnessed the antique 3,000-year-old medium of billboards to push Google Apps. It's targeting traffic-stalled, mind-wandering commuters in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco seeking corporate converts, apostates from ...

BT is pleased to announce that Kevin Marks has joined as Vice President of Web Services, reporting to JP Rangaswami, Managing Director of Service Design. Marks will be based in Mountain View at Ribbit -- Silicon Valley's First Phone Company -- the company BT acquired in July 2008. ...

A few more details of the hard-won Microsoft-Yahoo deal came out Tuesday when Yahoo filed an 8-K with the SEC: The pair has until October 27 to negotiate definitive agreements. If they can’t it goes to arbitration. Microsoft will pick up the check for getting the deal over the regulato...

Microsoft’s long pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in a 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected, which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them. It’s going to use Micr...

With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It...

Craig Newmark, best known for being the founder of the Craigslist website, is working hard to get the word out on Gov2.0. Last week in FedScoop, he really laid out how technology is improving our American democracy. As stated in his article, Mr. Newmark hopes to help accelerate this...

Microsoft's long, arduous, tempestuous pursuit of Yahoo is reportedly about to culminate in deal. The companies could sign an agreement Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper and others say they've heard the latest rendition of the deal has Yahoo using Microso...

New Zealand’s Postal Services Group (PSG), a business inside New Zealand Post Group that connects businesses and the community through mail and online services, is moving from Microsoft to Google Apps, security, compliance and web filtering. PSG has signed a three-year agreement with F...

No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a reasonable understanding of the very basics. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind, It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into th...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) doesn’t like Microsoft, doesn’t like software patents, it especially doesn’t like Microsoft’s patents, and it doesn’t trust the two of them in the same room together. It’s convinced that Microsoft is eventually going to sue any open source develop...

The European Commission has invited European publishers, authors and copyright holders to a hearing September 7 on Google’s proposed $125 million US settlement on its out-of-print book-scanning project. It seems that copyright can’t traced for 90% of the books in Europe’s national libr...

To get the European Commission off its back and avoid another mammoth fine, Microsoft has offered to distribute other people's browsers with Windows, exactly what Opera, Google and Mozilla want. It's not something Microsoft wants to do but the company finds itself over a barrel. ...

Canonical Tuesday open-sourced the code under Launchpad, the software development platform used to build Ubuntu and “thousands of other projects.” It said users can now participate directly in Launchpad’s development. Launchpad lets developers host and share code from different sou...

Microsoft Monday released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the GPL 2 license, the mother of all open source licenses written when open source was still a pup by the brassbound Free Software Foundation.

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that it received a Stevie Award for Best House Organ/Publication in the Corporate Literature category at The 2009 American Business Awards. The company's winning publication, NOW Magazine, provides IT professionals worldwide with a...

The open source crowd got unexpected validation late Friday when Standard & Poor's said it's going to boot the tottering CIT Group off its chi-chi S&P 500-stock index and replace it with Red Hat. With its stock in the hole, its depressed market cap down to $272 million and its flirt...

What with Google going into the PC operating systems business, CEO Eric Schmidt said last week that he’ll talk to Apple about his position on its board. Because of Android he already reportedly recuses himself when iPhone comes up. At the rate Google’s side projects have been going, he...

DisplaySearch figures netbooks will represent 20% of the worldwide notebook market this year based on projections that close to 33 million of the little things will sell, up almost 100%. According to its numbers traditional notebook sales will only be up this year in China, Latin Ameri...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly reacted to Google’s Chrome OS playing to an audience at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference the other day. “Who knows what that thing is,” he said. “To me, it’s highly interesting that it won’t happen for a year and a half and they already an...