With the advent of mobile technology, more and more people are using an iPhone as their on-the-go method of connecting to the World Wide Web. For those who develop Web applications, the task is to build Web applications that mimic the user interface (UI) of the iPhone and iPod touch de...

Novell has updated its Client for Windows, the widgetry that enables Novell Open Enterprise Server connectivity. Novell calls it a major revision of the Novell Client and says it allows a Vista workstation to log in to Open Enterprise Server or NetWare. It includes performance enhancem...

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), the front organization for IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red Hat, RealNetworks, Opera as well as other companies on the Redmond enemies list, has become a party to the European Commission’s latest antitrust complaint against Microsoft. ECIS,...

Infobright, the Toronto-based open source data warehousing company, is pushing out rev 3.1 of its low-cost software. It adds x86 Solaris 10 support to its Enterprise Edition and an enhanced SQL Framework to both its Enterprise and Community Editions so the widgetry should appeal to a w...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

According to the latest numbers out of Gartner and IDC, HP has overtaken Dell in the US PC market for the first time since, gee, 2001. Dell lost the lead worldwide to HP in 2006. In Q1 Dell's US market share dropped to 26.3%, down 4.1%, while HP captured 27.6% of American shipments, up...

Microsoft Wednesday sent Exchange 2010 out into public beta. It’s its first server built from the ground up, according to Microsoft, to be deployed in the cloud as an online service as well as on-site. It will be available as a cloud service from both Microsoft and third parties.

While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace ...

In reporting the company's numbers Tuesday evening Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that "We believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and that the industry is returning to normal seasonal patterns." If true, there will be dancing in the streets but even if true there are goin...

Quoting unnamed sources the Dow Jones All Things Digital blog reported Friday that Yahoo and Microsoft have started sounding each other out again about a search and ad partnership and said Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz met the week before last.

Microsoft’s unreleased Azure cloud is not meant for private on-premises hosting, the company said. It’s strictly a Microsoft data centers-only thing supposedly because some of the new Azure widgetry Microsoft invents is bound to turn up in Windows Server – from which Azure derives anyw...

Despairing of getting an answer from just about anybody's customer service these days, people are turning instead to Twitter to solve their product problems. And seeing an opportunity to monetize that fact Salesforce.com has promised an extension of its two-month-old Service Cloud call...

Gumusluk is a traditional fishing village on the Bodrum peninsula in the south west end of the Aegean part in the Turkish riviera. Bodrum or the ancient city of Halicarnassus of Caria is a well known center of tourism and yachting. Bodrum peninsula is also well known for the lovely bay...

VMware has taken on the distinct scent of Microsoft again. It just hired another ex-Microsoftie for its senior ranks. Besides CEO Paul Maritz and second-in-command, COO Tod Nielsen, both Microsoft émigrés, there's now chief development officer and EVP Richard McAniff, late corporate VP...

Microsoft and IBM, estranged over IBM’s high-handedness in dictating a seemingly innocuous Cloud Manifesto that’s read as Big Blue’s attempt to stamp itself the ultimate leader of the cloud movement met Monday and parlayed at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York.

The Linux kernel apparently does in fact infringe on Microsoft’s patents – at least that’s certainly the way it looks to the casual observer because TomTom has agreed to yank the offending widgetry out of its GPS devices over the next two years. That’s part of the deal it made with Mic...

The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...

Microsoft and IBM, estranged over IBM's high-handedness in dictating a seemingly innocuous Cloud Manifesto that's read as Big Blue's attempt to stamp itself the ultimate leader of the cloud movement met Monday and parlayed at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York. Tuesday morning they r...

Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret "Open Cloud Manifesto" that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn't identify the author or authors of this manifesto but figures its supporters - one would guess organ...

A new agreement with Microsoft Corporation gives ArcGIS users fast access to Microsoft Virtual Earth for their geographic information system (GIS) projects. As part of ArcGIS Online at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release, ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server users will be able to connect directly to ...

BackWeb Technologies Ltd has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, alleging that Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service, otherwise known as BITS, introduced in 2001 in Windows XP and now in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, treads on four of its patents...

Yousef A. Khalidi, a Distinguished Engineer in the Clouds Infrastructure Services group at Microsoft - leader of a team responsible for several components of Windows Azure - is the latest software luminary to join the all-star Speaker Faculty at SYS-CON's upcoming 3-day 2nd Internation...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,200 developers, engineers, architects,...

The folks at the Wall Street Journal who brought us tales of IBM buying Sun for $6.5 billion-$8 billion last week were saying by Friday that due diligence was holding up any announcement. The paper seemed to think that IBM lawyers were paying particular attention to Sun's many differen...

Double-Take Software announced the availability of the latest version of its flagship Double-Take for Windows product and enhancements to other products in the company’s suite including complete platform support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Doubl...

Microsoft has pushed out Internet Explorer 8. PC arbiter Walt Mossberg, who calls the browser arguably the most important piece of software on a computer, says it’s a big improvement over IE7 and a “much closer competitor to its main rival, Mozilla’s Firefox.” It’s more stable, more co...

"We are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match," declared Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, today as Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8. "Customers have made clear...

AccuRev has increased the financial institution’s ability to deliver more working software to its operations staff at a fraction of the time it previously took using a less agile SCM tool. Previously, developers may have been impacted for a week at a time during a development stabiliza...

CEO Joe Tucci said for what must be the umpteenth time Tuesday that EMC has no intention of parting with its roughly 84% majority stake in virtualization leader VMware. The occasion was EMC’s first analyst day in a dog’s age. EMC has been under pretty constant market pressure since VMw...

Microsoft was supposed to submit its rebuttal the other day to the European Commission’s January antitrust finding that bundling the Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system is anti-competitive. Instead it asked for and got a deadline extension until April 21. Micros...

Microsoft and the Creative Commons turned up at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and released an Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 so authors can add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. On...

Sybase Chairman and CEO John Chen who appeared on CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday said Sybase is providing mobile solutions to SAP. "Sybase and SAP are both leaders in their respective spaces. We will bring what consumers are enjoying for years to the enterprise users. Immediate busines...

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 ...

The European Commission said Wednesday that it no longer needs a full-time monitoring trustee to ensure Microsoft's compliance with its 2004 antitrust decree. Instead it intends to rely on the ad hoc assistance of technical consultants. The trustee was brought in in 2005 to access the ...

Jon Peddie, the graphics guru, says the popular integrated graphics processor chipset known as the IGP and used in PCs for the last 11 years is only going to be around for a few more years. By 2012 it will have ceased to exist, replaced by graphics embedded in the processor. Peddie cal...

Infragistics has announced the immediate availability of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1. A complete collection of data visualization-focused user interface (UI) controls NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 9.1 is geared towards developers who ...

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.

Razorfish, one of the largest digital marketing companies in the world and an independent Microsoft subsidiary acquired when Redmond bought aQuantive, is going to use Rackspace Hosting’s Mosso cloud hosting platform. What it’s not doing, of course, is waiting around to use Windows Azur...

That Windows Vista Capable suit that’s been dogging Microsoft and making its internal e-mail entertaining common fodder has been stripped of its class action cachet. Decertification basically flings the suit into limbo even if Microsoft didn’t get the summary judgment it wanted. The si...