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It's official. Microsoft is going to let PC users turn its browser off in Windows 7 to keep the European Commission at bay. The EC's latest indictment of Microsoft accuses it of the antitrust sin of tying Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, a charge brought by Opera and ...Mar. 9, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,029
Some users of Google's vaunted Google Docs service discovered this weekend that behind their backs the widgetry has been sharing some of their documents with folks who were never authorized to see them. There are at least three things that might keep a cloud user up at night: fear the ...
Craegmoor has a small IT team dedicated to supporting its IT infrastructure, so producing robust and secure web based applications was believed to be a challenge. The team considered bringing in external consultants, but this idea was rejected because it was not viewed as a cost effect...
Microsoft is pushing its SaaS Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services, out for trial to 19 countries. That will make Exchange Online and SharePoint Online available for trial in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, J...
In her first public appearance Tuesday since her apotheosis Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz laid down terms. If there are going to be talks with Microsoft, they're going to be private, not in the press, a perimeter she's apparently already communicated to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Gmail, which has something like 31 million users, went down again globally for two-and-half hours by Google's count on Tuesday, starting at around 9:30am GMT.
This time it was it was due to routine maintenance in one of its European data centers. Rather than fall over to another data...
When BankNewport in Rhode Island adopted a Two-Factor authentication plan, its concern was to make the transition as easy as possible on its customers. An innovative staging plan minimized disruption to online banking customers.
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who’s got her eye on the governor’s mansion in California, has formed a so-called exploratory committee and issued a statement saying, “California faces challenges unlike any other time in its history – a weak and faltering economy, massive job losses, and ...
Arthur Rock, the mythic VC who backed the fledgling Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel and Apple, was also a Madoff investor according to the Madoff customer list made public the other day in bankruptcy court filings. He had five trusts with Madoff, but it’s impossible to tell whether they...
He says, "The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed....In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without ...
As of December there were over a billion Internet users in the world, according to comScore, complements of Asia-Pacific in general and China in particular. Asia-Pac accounts for 41% of this global audience, followed by Europe’s 28%, North America’s 18%, Latin America’s 7% and the Midd...
Eighteen months or so after Google Gears debuted, a period of time scarred by several major Gmail outages, Google’s cloud-accessible-only e-mail is finally getting invested with offline support. Google calls the feature “early experimental,” but then Gmail is still in beta two years af...
Ulitzer will be launching 6,000 new author sites for the leading technology authors and software industry rock stars. Ulitzer.com is also open for new authors who would like to be published on any topic. Authors can submit their bio and articles for consideration using the pre-beta pag...
The AP, God bless it, was rooting around SEC filings and discovered one sent in by Google on December 15 but not filed electronically and after some difficulty finally managed to lay its hands on a paper copy only to be rewarded with the revelation that the company has “jettisoned a su...
Skype has released Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac, the latest version of its internet communications software for Mac users. This new release contains a number of new Skype features, including Skype Access and screen sharing. Both of these features will be built into versions of Skype for othe...
Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, wants to be governor of California. At least that’s the interpretation given the fact that she’s suddenly severed all her board ties, stepping down as a director of Proctor & Gamble, Dreamworks Animation SKG and, of course, eBay. The official explan...
"As many of you know," Steve Jobs tells the Apple worldwide community in a heart-rendingly frank memo, "I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it need...
The start of a New Year is upon us so it is time to get a list together of things that you will do (or do your best to do) in the coming year. Everybody has their own personal Resolution lists, but what about your Business ones? How are you going to remain competitive? What steps are y...
Much like “Web 2.0″, cloud computing was a collection of related concepts that people recognized, but didn’t really have a good descriptor for, a definition in search of a term, you could say. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt used it in 2006 to describe their own stuff and then Amazon inc...
The Web is slowly changing from a visual resource designed to externalize information to people, to a non-visual resource that's able to facilitate machine-to-machine communications. The catalysts of this change are non-visual communications that are enabled using APIs, or Application ...
The latest in a long line of Yahoo execs to hit the trail is Joseph Siino, the guy who built its IP department. He’s decided to try his hand monetizing patents, but hasn’t said where yet. In his farewell e-mail to the troops, he claimed Yahoo’s IP is worth billions of dollars.
Google has disappeared from the Top 20 list of companies trusted with privacy in TRUSTe’s fifth annual survey. American Express came in first followed by eBay (2), IBM (3), HP (6), Apple (8), Intuit (12), Yahoo (14) and Facebook (15).
Yahoo up and said the other day that starting next month it will anonymize any personal user data stemming from searches, page views, ad views, page clicks and ad clicks in 90 days – a broader policy than anybody else’s got although how effective the scrubbing will be is unclear. Any d...
Sun has put out its promised UltraSparc T2 Reference Design Kit (RDK), meant to accelerate the design, development and testing of T2 processor-based embedded systems designs. T2 has eight cores and eight threads per core, and boasts one of the industry’s highest energy efficiencies per...
The openSUSE Project has hit release 11.1, the latest version of its free open source Linux distribution and the widgetry that the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 will be based on. This time there's a new license that eliminates the EULA. The project has removed proprietary so...
Novell has made Roger Levy, the head of its Open Platform Solutions (OPS) unit, SVP of strategic development and told him to focus on a cross-business strategy and the data center, end-user computing, and identity and security management markets. Meanwhile, Markus Rex, who used to be t...
The possibility of Lenovo acquiring Brazil’s biggest PC maker Positivo Informatica SA has come naught. Lenovo told Reuters that the companies “agree that given the current economic turmoil and uncertainties, it is not feasible to reach an agreement on a transaction at this time.” The s...
On Sunday Radio Shack started dangling a $99.99 Atom-based netbook from Acer in front of the American consumer, becoming the first major US retailer to cut that deep. To qualify for that price, customers have to sign a two-year AT&T DataConnect mobile broadband service agreement. Said ...
Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't...
Do not dis the very people that will build and create the community for your product to survive. Can you imagine a Java landscape without its yearly flagship conference JavaOne? Unthinkable, but you can be rest assured that it will be a wonderful benchmark to which to measure Sun's com...
Google just did a very un-Googley thing. It pushed Chrome out of the beta nest. Chrome's only been in beta since September 2, something like a hundred days. And Google is famous for keeping widgetry in beta until the beta label turns yellow with age. Gmail, for instance, has been in be...
The Android-loving Open Handset Alliance says it's added 14 more members, bringing its total to 47 companies. Of course it’s only produced one phone so far, the iPhone's leagues ahead, and the crummy economy is expected to hurt even cell phone sales, but this is a matter of covering mu...
Oh, look. Google’s found another way to annoy the…to annoy Microsoft. This one’s called Native Client, a shiny new open source R&D project aimed at running fast x86 native code in web applications. It’s another way of going for the desktop’s jugular and, paired with Google Gears and Go...
Salesforce.com, which used to be just a chi-chi SaaS house until it realized that identifying itself with cloud computing would make it even more fashionable, has expanded its alliance with Google. It’s come up with Force.com for Google App Engine, described as a new set of tools and s...
Google is more like Microsoft than it would admit. Not only is it regarded as a monopoly by the U.S. government, it likes dangling its toes over the crevasse. Sandy Litvack, the guy that the Justice Department hired to build an antitrust case against Google if it persisted in doing tha...
