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01.14.2009 Google has announced a new program designed to encourage resellers boost its Google Apps Premier Edition among enterprise application users. In March, companies will be able to sell Google's messaging and collaboration applications, including Google Docs, Google Sites and Gmail, directly to businesses, setting their own rates and billing them directly.
01.14.2009 An asset management from BigFix, called the Decision Support System - Software Asset Management is designed to cut IT costs by finding unused software licenses, license misallocations, rogue and non-standard software installations with audit and license true-up processes.
01.12.2009 Joe Wilcox got his hands on the beta earlier than most and offers his first impressions of the putatitve heir of Vista. What do you think about it?
01.07.2009 Programmers should emphasize coding on their resumes, particularly when looking for application development jobs at startups and small companie, according to Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software.
01.05.2009 Some reports suggest small businesses won't be slashing through IT budgets in 2009. But is the average midmarket company willing to invest in virtualization technology? DataCore, among other vendors, says yes.
12.29.2008 A recession is the worst time to pull back on marketing. But promoting your business and services doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Leveraging Web 2.0 applications can propel your business on the cheap.
12.17.2008 Google software engineers refuse to address whether the company is working on a Web operating system but are happy to talk about Native Client, a new open-source technology designed to complement JavaScript, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe AIR and Flash. Native Client is geared to address the security issues inherent in leveraging native computer code in application development, helping Google bridge the performance gap between Web and desktop applications.
12.03.2008 The release this week of the latest VMware View suite is a step toward VMware's goal of creating a much more expansive virtual desktop infrastructure called VMware vClient, which is slated for release in 2009. In the meantime, the View 3 suite allows VMware to offer a virtual desktop infrastructure suite that competes with XenApp and XenDesktop from Citrix Systems.
12.01.2008 President-elect Barack Obama names two telecom lawyers and Google's head of global development efforts to oversee technology, innovation and government reform working group. Former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin, Frontline Wireless co-founder John Leibovitz and Google lawyer Andrew McLaughlin also join the team.
11.24.2008 A new Internet attack vector could allow hackers to bypass anti-virus protection at both the gateway and the desktop, according to Stephan Chenette of Websense. The technique, called script fragmentation, involves breaking down malware into smaller pieces in order to beat malware analysis engines. Web 2.0 requires new ways of thinking about browser security.
11.19.2008 MongoNet, backed by Adobe founders, introduces new consumer fax-to-PDF email service charged on a per-page basis.
11.19.2008 Adobe announces extended collaboration with SAP to help SAP developers build rich applications using Adobe’s tools. Meanwhile, a Salesforce.com executive states that Salesforce does much the same thing using Adobe’s front-end design and development tools. The enterprise is a key target for Adobe, said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Adobe's Creative Solutions Business Unit.
11.17.2008 President-elect Barack Obama brings a decidedly different technology agenda to the White House than President Bush did eight years ago. Widely considered the most tech-savvy president ever elected, Obama sees an activist government – tinkering here, readjusting there and spending here, here and here – as the path to innovation and the future.
11.10.2008 Sam Ramji, Microsoft's open-source point man, promotes the company's efforts in the areas of interoperability and open-source software at the Apache Software Foundation's ApacheCon conference. In a keynote at the event, Ramji discusses various Microsoft interoperability efforts involving partnerships with WSO2, HBase, AMQP and the company's "Oslo" modeling technology.
10.27.2008 Open-source databases such as Ingres, MySQL and PostgreSQL may see increased adoption as businesses look to minimize costs in the wake of the economic downturn. However, there are other factors to consider in open-source database adoption besides economics, so open-source fans should not jump for joy just yet.
10.27.2008 Researchers from CSC report on the seven disruptive technologies of the digital landscape. Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and Amazon.com lead the revolving cast of characters in a play about the wireless Internet, semantic Web, SAAS, cloud computing, virtualization social networks and other areas affecting the Web services world.
10.22.2008 Technology industry executives polled by DLA Piper say the financial crisis has affected their business, but most expect spending to continue and anticipate an economic rebound.
10.20.2008 Security software-as-a-service vendors want your business and are offering services from URL filtering to message security. With large security vendors such as Symantec and Trend Micro placing their own bets on SAAS, customers and vendors alike should consider just what security technologies can be best delivered as an in-the-cloud service.
08.27.2008 Greenplum and Aster Data Systems will support MapReduce, a technique pioneered by Google to analyze large data sets. Both Aster Data Systems and Greenplum, which competes with companies such as Oracle and Netezza in the data warehousing space, believe MapReduce will improve analytics for large data sets.
08.20.2008 Google competitor Cuil went back into app dev after crashing under load after its June launch. Newer algorithm improves results somewhat, but it still doesn't measure up to the big dog.
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