Microsoft's strategy for keeping recent builds of its latest operating system tightly under wraps sprang a few holes last week.
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
Microsoft is promoting the use of software-based "information cards" to reduce identity theft.
HP's absorption of outsourcing firm EDS also includes a plan to cut its workforce.
New Security Development Lifecycle tools and services will be available in November.
Alistair Croll, a principal analyst for consulting coalition BitCurrent, argues that moving to Internet-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, "won't eliminate work [but will] just change the work," for IT administrators.
ZendCon featured a partnership announcement, bringing together PHP and Adobe's rich Internet application technologies.
Testing tools vendor Ranorex's new automated application-testing solution supports C#, VB.NET, Python and C++ languages.
Infragistics unveils new icon packs to improve application navigation and enhance Web sites.
BusinessWeek's Web site was hit at the back end through SQL injection.
Intel and Microsoft technologies are integrated in the new high-performance computing machine.
VMware aims for the cloud with its new Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS)
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
On the first day of VMware's VMworld conference happening in Las Vegas this week, Citrix Systems -- a competitor of VMware that's also at the conference -- announced the release of XenServer 5, the latest version of its server virtualization solution.
New processors aimed at datacenter and virtualization markets.
A "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8 sends information to Microsoft, but it's not retained, Redmond contends.
The companies plan to foster an interoperability spec for ECM systems through OASIS.
The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.
The product announcements came fast a furious at the third annual Office 2.0 conference, which wrapped up last week in San Francisco.