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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 16 May 2008 22:02:25 +0200 Vendors moving too fast on RIAPotential conflicts and overlap between the first update to HTML in a decade by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and XHTML has been addressed by the standards body.… Fri, 16 May 2008 11:01:37 +0200 Adds 10 new languagesGoogle has announced the addition of ten new languages to its Google Translate feature, bringing the total of available tongues to 23.… Fri, 16 May 2008 07:02:02 +0200 Lightweight programming, minus GoogleProject Watch: Microsoft 2008 Those who have been following Project Watch will know that I have been leading the development in a large database project using SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.… Fri, 16 May 2008 03:03:10 +0200 Or at least taggierScientists have launched a new game site designed to make computers smarter by harnessing the cognition of the humans playing the games. Gwap.com, short for games with a purpose, takes a Tom Sawyer approach to solving age-old computer problems by repackaging normally mundane tasks as online fun.… Thu, 15 May 2008 21:34:09 +0200 Swings for Flex-based RIASun Microsystems' desktop division CTO has defected to Adobe Systems. It's the latest installment of musical chairs between vendors jockeying for developers building rich internet applications, and highlights Sun's weaknesses in this already competitive field.… Thu, 15 May 2008 07:50:09 +0200 Build your own pixelsThe "first major" Flash Player update since Adobe Systems completed its 2005 acquisition of Macromedia is due to be made available today as a beta.… Thu, 15 May 2008 07:02:02 +0200 Some software, some riskThe Salesforce.com marketing pitch at the recent Dreamforce Europe was wearying at times but it is not complete nonsense. Chief executive Marc Benioff spent the first hour of his keynote reiterating what he has said 1,000 times before about "no software".… Wed, 14 May 2008 20:52:40 +0200 How Scientology funded the anti-Scientology movementExclusive Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web's most influential anti-Scientology sites.… Wed, 14 May 2008 19:28:44 +0200 JDeveloper 11g - a work (still) in progressExactly a year after releasing the first preview of version 11g of its JDeveloper Java integrated development environment (IDE), Oracle has quietly slipped out preview number four - yes, count 'em - four.… Wed, 14 May 2008 11:55:49 +0200 International anonymity for New YorkersGoogle has begun to roll out Street View images with the faces of innocent bystanders to its drive-by captures suitably blurred - a response to increasing privacy concerns over the service's indiscriminate broadcasting of the unwashed masses.… Wed, 14 May 2008 00:03:55 +0200 Back to the time-shiftingDevelopers building applications for Microsoft's much-ballyhooed Silverlight media player won't be able to use Visual Studio 2008 running the company's latest software update.… Tue, 13 May 2008 21:24:38 +0200 Having faces is not enoughFollowing quickly in the footsteps of MySpace, both Facebook and Google have announced new-fangled tools that allow social-networking types to shuttle their online data from site to site.… Tue, 13 May 2008 19:54:09 +0200 No, I don't want to be your 'friend'Mystery surrounds the identity of four winners in Google's $10m Android mobile applications competition, announced last November.… Tue, 13 May 2008 12:20:38 +0200 To reveal? The inexorable blackness of spaceMicrosoft yesterday whipped the lens cap off the public beta of its much-anticipated WorldWide Telescope - a "rich Web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world".… Mon, 12 May 2008 18:45:50 +0200 Following the fadsJavaOne provides a good barometer of the current fads hitting IT. Three years ago, Java discovered open source, two years ago it was AJAX, while last year was a non-event. But this year, the rich client’s back, baby.… Fri, 09 May 2008 13:33:24 +0200 'Huddled masses yearning to breathe free'Microsoft will start automatically pumping out its first service packs for the Office 2007 suite next month.… Thu, 08 May 2008 17:24:07 +0200 Free access for bloggersBritannica is opening up its content for use by publishers - including amateurs - but insists it isn't threatened by the world's biggest compendium of unusually-shaped vegetables.*… Wed, 07 May 2008 19:21:56 +0200 Resources for coursesDatabase tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies has snapped up Borland Software's unwanted tools subsidiary CodeGear for $23m - $127m less than initially sought.… Wed, 07 May 2008 14:25:14 +0200 David and GoliathMicrosoft has won its case against Dutch 46-year-old mother of three Carola Eppink, who wanted to restrict her children's use of the internet by using a self-made program she'd dubbed MSNLock.… Wed, 07 May 2008 13:27:56 +0200 Debug tool aims to metamorphise web developmentBrowser maker Opera has released an early version of a tool to help developers debug web pages. It hopes Opera Dragonfly will assist developers in making the experience of surfing the net consistent across web-enabled mobiles, desktops, and consoles while prompting the adoption of open standards.… Wed, 07 May 2008 13:19:28 +0200 We never said we would...SAP has signaled a retreat from full, on-demand versions of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) products, just as Google and Microsoft up their game in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market.… Tue, 06 May 2008 22:43:28 +0200 Spirit of McNealy livesJavaOne Sun today announced the yet-to-launch JavaFX programming language will gather data on end-users activities to help developers monetize software, by selling ads for instance.… Tue, 06 May 2008 18:41:49 +0200 Don't attack us... attack them!CommunityOne The relationship between business, vendors and coders has been tested at a Sun Microsystems conference in San Francisco intended to express oneness with open source.… Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:32 +0200 Microsoft's exclusive with Ford finishes soonMicrosoft has signed deals with Hyundai and Kia to supply voice recognition kit for cars sold in the USA, just as soon as its exclusive deal with Ford runs out in November.… Mon, 05 May 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Pry vi from my cold, dead handsPHP is the latest language getting the NetBeans treatment, with a PHP version of Sun Microsystems' open-source environment hitting early access today.… Fri, 02 May 2008 23:22:43 +0200 The fruits of subterfugeIn surreptitiously slipping Safari onto Windows by way of the Apple Updater, Steve Jobs and his minions have tripled the browser's market share.… Fri, 02 May 2008 13:02:03 +0200 Thank God for file streamingProject Watch: Microsoft 2008 OK, so choosing and installing the hardware - that was easy. I wish I could say the same for the software.… Thu, 01 May 2008 15:02:54 +0200 No formal appeal to ISO yet, thoughThe UK's Unix User Group (UKUUG) has convinced the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the British Standard Institute's decision to vote in favour of Microsoft's controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) specification.… Thu, 01 May 2008 13:02:02 +0200 A different spin on JavaIn this post, Glen Stampoultzis posts a very interesting and clever sequence of steps by which he converts a piece of Java code into idiomatic Groovy code. I thought it was a nice article, so I'll do a very short spin on it: taking Glen's final Groovy code and converting it into idiomatic Ruby.… Thu, 01 May 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Handsets go royalty freeAdobe Systems is throwing open its Flash and AIR file formats to speed delivery of Rich Internet Applications to billions of mobile devices with its tools and players.… Thu, 01 May 2008 01:47:00 +0200 Virtual worlds, robots and huge databases coveredStanford University has mounted some gun turrets to its Ivory Towers. Just a few weeks after rival UC Berkeley revealed a mega-funding engagement with Microsoft and Intel around multi-threaded software, Stanford has returned fire by grabbing money from just about every other vendor on the planet with interest in improving code for multi-core chips for similar research.… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Test and maintenance reliefSpringSource has picked up on the trend for modular servers with the planned beta release today of the SpringSource Application Platform, its Java application server.… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:13:44 +0200 Go on, embed my widget... it's only waffferr thiiinThe web is getting fatter faster than a middle-aged November goose on an all-spaghetti diet, thanks to webmasters and bloggers greasing their pages with Web 2.0 lard.… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:02 +0200 Script and polishHot on the heels of a successful 6.0 release, which we covered here and here, Sun Microsystems has delivered NetBeans 6.1, just in time for the company's annual JavaOne and CommunityOne events in San Francisco, California.… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:13:19 +0200 Image search gets realNearly a decade ago, Google unveiled an algorithm called PageRank, reinventing the way we search for web pages. Now, the company says, it has a technology that can do much the same for online image search.… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:34 +0200 SQL Server gets cloudyMicrosoft has recruited database guru David DeWitt to head up a new database research lab. Based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where DeWitt was until recently professor of computing sciences, the new lab will focus on advanced data-management techniques.… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:02:02 +0200 No assembly requiredReview What is the point of JBuilder, when you can simply use Eclipse? That has been the marketing challenge for CodeGear ever since it decided to scrap its home-grown Java integrated development environment and replace it with a new product based on the open-source Eclipse tools platform.… Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:26:08 +0200 Ballmer won't up bidMicrosoft boss Steve Ballmer yesterday dropped the biggest hint yet that Redmond could turn its back on rival Yahoo! if its hostile bid to buy the internet search engine is rejected.… Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:39:52 +0200 But what colour was his hat?Christopher Tarnovsky has been testifying in the ongoing case between the News-Corp-Owned NDS and DISH Network Inc, which accuses Murdoch's firm of hacking its pay-TV conditional access (CA) systems.… Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:17:04 +0200 Wanna social network on the backseat? I'm not in the moodSatyam has promised to settle arguments over what radio station to listen to in the car when it launches its dot auto platform next year.… Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:02:03 +0200 Integrated advantageMac Secrets Welcome my second “peek behind the scenes” for Cocoa developers. I enjoyed the responses to the first installment, both for and against, and especially the lively email exchanges, some of which I plan to pick up on in the near future!… Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:47:37 +0200 Mozilla still peevedApple has updated Apple Software Update, giving iTunes and Quicktime users (a bit) more notice before slipping Safari onto their Windows machines.… Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:01:49 +0200 PayPal only policy backfireseBay Australia's decision to only accept PayPal, which it owns, is being investigated by Aussie competition regulators.… Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:02:04 +0200 Visual Studio stripped for actionHands on part 2 When I looked at IronPython in part one, I focussed on how it marries the Python language and libraries with Microsoft's .NET framework.… Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:19:48 +0200 Expands mandateMySQL User Conference Under its new owner, Sun Microsystems, MySQL will remain true to its Linux roots and won’t be pulled towards Solaris or become overshadowed by the Solaris-distributed Postgres.… Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:47:31 +0200 Apply or be own3dOracle posted 41 patches on Tuesday as part of its regular quarterly patching cycle, with core database vulnerabilities being heavily represented.… Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:16:35 +0200 What's in a name?Borland Software's CodeGear subsidiary has refined its PHP development environment, Delphi for PHP. The tool continues to be associated with the older Delphi suite that helped make Borland's name.… Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:08:34 +0200 Bots infiltrate formsAs part of an ongoing effort to index the so-called Invisible Web, Google's automated crawlers are now toying with HTML forms. But only on certain "high-quality sites."… Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:02:17 +0200 Wants open format adopted as standardAdobe Systems today revealed plans for an open video format which it plans to hand over to a standards body.… Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:18:48 +0200 Hopes to deliver Microsoft smackdownGoogle and Salesforce.com are exchanging Web 2.0 friendship bands today, forging a closer relationship in the hope of directly threatening their nemesis in customer management and office software: Microsoft.… |
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