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  • Chip makers push Google Android devices

    The kit should help product developers adopt Android for their MIPS-based devices.In seeking to break into the processor market for Android-based devices MIPS is behind ARM. They're also used in the Archos 5 Internet Tablet.MIPS hopes to take…
    19 November 2009
    Tags: Players • Boxes • Picture • Aiming • Accelerate • Android

  • Red Hat opposes software patents in Supreme Court case

    In the brief, Red Hat asks the Supreme Court to adopt the lower court's "machine-or-transformation" test and exclude software from patentability.Red Hat argues that the patent system is supposed to foster innovation, but in software it does the…
    02 October 2009
    Tags: Filed • Patents • Innovation • Red Hat • Argues

  • Virtual appliances fail to take off

    The idea - and benefits of - virtual appliances seem straightforward enough, but IT execs have been slow to adopt the technology.In the virtual appliance model, developers package applications with an operating system to run as either a hardware…
    03 September 2009
    Tags: Evaluation • Adopt • Suse Linux • Appliances • Consulting

  • Open source security still a worry, finds survey

    Within those groups, only 9 percent of enterprises said they were "very concerned," compared with 45 percent for the SMBs.More than half of SMBs (57 percent) also expressed concern that open-source software would be complex and hard to adopt, but…
    09 June 2009
    Tags: Smbs • Smb • North America • Forrester Research • Saas

  • Ingres appliance combines database and content management

    It means that companies can now adopt more a 'black-box' type approach.Forrester Research has recently pointed out that office paper has undergone double-digit growth year-over-year since 1995, while web content growth has increased even more.
    02 March 2009
    Tags: Maxwell Cooter • Content Management • Appliance • Forrester Research • Ingres • Strengthened

  • Sun opens encryption API to all comers

    Sun has thrown its hat into the encryption standards arena, proposing that its open source key management API be used as a universal way to allow devices to communicate with key management systems.Sun said its reseller partners can now adopt the…
    18 February 2009
    Tags: Keys • Libraries • Storagetek • Api • Shipped • Communicate

Latest Features

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Working outside the W3C, WHATWG began a parallel effort to revamp HTML for a more application-centric view of the web.In 2007, with its XHTML 2 work mired in seemingly endless debate, the W3C voted to adopt WHATWG's work as the starting point for…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Tag • Stage • Scalable • Rendering • Languages • Consortium

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    But we will see a skills shift from IT personnel that operates only in the old, slow expensive ways to IT pros that can adopt agile methods. Virtualization not only impacts current data center plans, but also future cloud computing efforts and…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Seek • Network World • Cycle • Contracts • Assurance

  • Can Linux distros survive Chrome OS?

    Google's reputation for creating popular online services may also encourage PC makers to adopt the OS in netbooks, he says.Other Linux distributions still haven't been widely successful in netbooks, setting the bar low for Google's Chrome OS to…
    09 July 2009
    Tags: Microsoft Windows • Battle • Distribution • Distributions • Recognition • Netbook

  • Vendors start making progress towards cloud communication

    The latter condition eliminates such big players as Amazon and Google.The Burton Group analyst firm has partnered with vendors to demonstrate single sign-on across real-world applications such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Cisco's WebEx…
    03 July 2009
    Tags: Interfaces • Virtual Machines • Forrester Research • Api • Movement • Amazon

  • XenServer 5.0 offers host of new features

    The company has made dealing with a failure much easier, for example, by easing the processing of rebooting virtual machines.Any organisation looking to adopt virtualisation has three approximate approaches to follow.
    27 November 2008
    Tags: Hypervisor • Trial • Citrix • Virtual Machines • Enhancements • Xen

  • Red Hat: Open Source mature, disruptive and innovative

    Red Hat's business model has allowed CIO's to adopt this technology and its associated benefits by providing enterprise lifecycle services for our platforms.Companies for many years now have been abandoning high cost proprietary operating software…
    26 October 2007
    Tags: Oem • Industries • Addressed • Australia • Discussions • Western
 

How-Tos

  • Making the most of open source

    Many open-source communities adopt one of these licenses or produce a variation. The most common licences are from the The Apache Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative's BSD project, the GNU General Public License and the Mozilla…
    19 July 2004
    Tags: Commercial • Intellectual Property • Addressed • Adopted • Road

Reviews

  • Apple Safari for Windows beta

    Apple Safari for Windows beta Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld It may be a beta, but it's a sign of things to come.review,reviews With new patches out this week, this is not a beta to adopt wholesale, but you should look at it if you value the…
    15 June 2007
    Tags: Market Share • Safari • Bar • Speech • Window • Appearance

  • Google Talk

    Skype's failure to adopt SIP has not apparently hurt it so far, but Gizmo might look a lot more like a Skype competitor with support from Google. The number of options is very small compared with open source clients such as Gaim, or with Yahoo!
    24 August 2005
    Tags: Installs • Skype • Sip • Directory • Contacts • Talk

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