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From software theory to fact
Insight newsmaker Laura Bennett, an IBM alphaWorks executive, discusses the emerging software types being investigated by her team and facing up to skeptics.
Tags: Software engineering/development, IBM Corp., Technology, Security, Open Source, Community, venture capital, intellectual property, podcast, software
UAE has Gulf's highest female Internet user base
News United Arab Emirates houses most female online users in Gulf region, making Arab state potentially lucrative market for online companies, study shows.
Tags: Female, Web sites, Internet advertising, online company, Bahrain, broadband quality of service, Web sites, Female, QoS, Broadband
Xen.org to build open standards cloud platform
News Xen Cloud Platform will form part of wider initiative aimed at bridging private clouds with public cloud services such as those offered by Amazon and Rackspace.
Tags: Cloud computing, Security, Virtualization, Xen, Novell Inc., Hypervisor, Xen.org, Cloud computing, network, Rackspace
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
News New feature to be deployed soon on a test wiki assigns an experienced editor to sign off on changes to articles on those who are alive and well.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Data Management, Wiki, Wikipedia, Server, New York Times Co., job, spokesman, Web 2.0
Windows Home Server update delayed
News Compatibility issues with Windows 7 have delayed the planned Power Pack 3 update until later this year.
Tags: App servers, E-mail servers, Web servers, File servers, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows 7, software company, File servers, Server
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
News Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Game players, Games, Gamer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox 360, console, digital-rights management, Activision Inc.
Windows Server 2008 R2 features PowerShell 2 by default
Techguide For the Windows OS, few tools hold more weight than the PowerShell scripting environment. In this tip, Rick Vanover breaks down the new environment for Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Quest Software Inc., Ohio, Community Technology Preview, Rick Vanover, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft founds and funds open source forum
News Software company has created a not-for-profit foundation to address integration and cultural issues between open source and proprietary software.
Tags: Open source, software company, Chicago, Open-source Community, Jeremy Allison, Linux, Samba, Open source
S'pore e-health records roadmap 'pragmatic'
News Singapore and other Asian countries have ingredients for successful implementation of e-healthcare services, say executives from GE Healthcare.
Tags: Data Management, Local Government, Regulations, GE Healthcare, General Electric Co., E-health, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore, electronic health record
Perfect device for developing world: Not PC
Insight perspective We have the right hardware for developing countries--it's just not a PC, an analyst points out.
Tags: Mobile applications, Development/design, Mobile/Wireless, Clive Longbottom, developing country, health care, PC, Development/design, Mobile/Wireless, South Africa
Time for U.S. to stop saying ICANN
Blogs This week marks the first time Barack Obama stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In his in...
No thanks, Google--we've got Ubuntu
Insight perspective If there is one problem the open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's fragmentation. Google is about to make it worse.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Ubuntu, Linux Community, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Distribution, Linux
Lotus Connections gets Twitter-like updates
News IBM continues integrating social networking into its Lotus business collaboration tool by adding wikis and microblogging features.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Wiki, IBM Corp., social networking, File-sharing, collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, Web 2.0
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port
News Nokia has released a port of its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5, so developers writing applications for the Linux OS can move them to multiple platforms.
Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Mobile applications, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Operating System, Trolltech, mobile, Mobile applications, Qt
Digg tweaks search, dupe detection
News Social site now better at collecting Diggs under canonical URLs, and tracking them too.
Tags: Market research, Web sites, RSS, Google Inc., Search Engine, Digg, job, monitor, Web Site, window
